{"id":26241,"date":"2016-08-19T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26241"},"modified":"2016-08-19T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:14:16","slug":"henley-standard-eighties-pop-legends-descend-on-henley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/henley-standard-eighties-pop-legends-descend-on-henley\/","title":{"rendered":"Henley Standard: Eighties Pop Legends Descend on Henley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henleystandard.co.uk\/entertainment\/story.php?id=42450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.henleystandard.co.uk\/entertainment\/story.php?id=42450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26245 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"rewind16d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rewind16d.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>A total of 40,000 people will descend on Temple Island Meadows near Henley for the eighth annual Rewind South festival this weekend. The Eighties pop extravaganza will kick off tonight (Friday) with a welcome party headlined by West Country folk band The Wurzels.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s performers include Rick Astley, whose latest album, 50, topped the charts this week, Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet, Jimmy Somerville, the Trevor Horn Band, Toyah, Leo Sayer and Andy Bell of Erasure.<\/p>\n<p>The festival concludes on Sunday with appearances by Adam Ant, Earth, Wind and Fire, M People\u2019s Heather Small, The Beat, The Blockheads and Heaven 17\u2019s Glenn Gregory, among others. There will be scores of attractions around the site including an inflatable church where revellers can get \u201cmarried\u201d, real ale and cocktail bars, food stalls, a roller disco, a funfair and a second stage featuring local performers.<\/p>\n<p>The weather is expected to be warm and overcast with sunny spells and the chance of the odd shower tomorrow. Organiser David Heartfield said: &#8220;Everything is looking great for the weekend. We\u2019re looking forward to it. It has been incredibly hot this week so I\u2019d welcome slightly cooler weather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henleystandard.co.uk\/entertainment\/story.php?id=42450\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Henley Standard<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 40,000 people will descend on Temple Island Meadows near Henley for the eighth annual Rewind South festival this weekend. The Eighties pop extravaganza will kick off tonight (Friday) with a welcome party headlined by West Country folk band The Wurzels. Tomorrow\u2019s performers include Rick Astley, whose latest album, 50, topped the charts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1396,27],"tags":[1646,1514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26247,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions\/26247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}