{"id":29970,"date":"2018-11-09T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T07:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=29970"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:14:31","slug":"toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-173\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Newsy Bits &#038; Pieces!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/toyahs-blog-nov-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/toyahs-blog-nov-2018\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29971 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"giraffe18d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/giraffe18d.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>\u2022 <strong>Toyah&#8217;s Painted Giraffe<\/strong>: &#8220;Touch The Wishing Stars&#8221; raised \u00a38000 for Toyah&#8217;s mother\u2019s hospice and is now placed permanently in the memorial garden at St. Richards Worcester &#8211; News Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/toyahs-blog-nov-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Toyah&#8217;s Nov 2018 Blog&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Worcester Stands Tall<\/strong>: Browse all our past news on Toyah&#8217;s painted giraffe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?s=giraffe\"><strong>here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a> (Photo \u00a9 Toyah Willcox)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah at Twitter<\/strong>: <em>Studio day with Simon Darlow for very important release in 2019<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toyahofficial\/status\/1060541558997573632\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See the tweet&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah Releases 2019<\/strong>: Two new singles have been confirmed as being released by Toyah next year &#8211; News Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/11\/02\/toyah-wilcox-talks-ahead-of-wolverhampton-show\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Express &amp; Star Interview&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Edinburgh Evening News\/Liam Rudden<\/strong>: My right ankle and left knee told me it hadn&#8217;t been a good idea to &#8216;pogo&#8217; at Manchester&#8217;s Ruby Lounge on Friday. The occasion was the first of Toyah&#8217;s 60th Birthday gigs, though she looks a fraction of her age. The same could not be said for the vintage teenagers who turned out to see her &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/news\/opinion\/liam-rudden-chef-sue-s-duck-samosas-are-quite-simply-to-die-for-1-4824550\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Acoustic, Up Close &amp; Personal 2019<\/strong>: Toyah is playing the West End Centre, 48 Queens Road, Aldershot on 15th March 2019 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westendcentre.co.uk\/event\/toyah-close-and-personal\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More info\/Book tickets&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah at Twitter<\/strong>: <em>FABULOUS SOLD OUT GIG &amp; FINALE to the Toyah60 Tour @O2Islington last night. Great vibe &amp; wonderful friends<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toyahofficial\/status\/1059356282367475712\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See some backstage photos&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah60 &#8211;\u00a0Finale<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<em>Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)<\/em> &#8211; O2 Academy Islington &#8211; 4\/11\/18 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rXjSGcYrroI\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch\/Listen&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC iPlayer Radio<\/strong>: There\u2019s still a great selection of past Toyah at BBC Radio content currently available to listen to at BBC iPlayer Radio; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06d2j24\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Great Lives<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn (originally aired in September 2015), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01qwhp7\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ramblings<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah takes Clare Balding for a walk in Worcestershire (February 2013), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01bkgf6\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Woman\u2019s Hour<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah on being a punk (February 2012), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04fc6y4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Good Read<\/strong><\/a>: Book reviews (March 1998), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0134srk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Saturday Live<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah\u2019s shares her secret life (August 2011), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p04vs12b\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Inheritance Tracks<\/strong><\/a>: Two of Toyah&#8217;s favourite songs (April 2017), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/b09rwt2b\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Woman&#8217;s Hour<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah talks punk classic <em>Jubilee<\/em> reimagined for the stage (February 2018), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b03ct4nq\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ramblings<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah guest presents &#8216;The Same Walk 365 Times&#8217; (October 2013), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08m98q2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Reunion<\/strong><\/a>: Women of Punk (April 2017), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01sdq89\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sounds Of The 80s<\/strong><\/a>: Toyah on the 80s (February 2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01bkgf6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01bkgf6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"womanshour17a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/womanshour17a.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Toyah&#8217;s Painted Giraffe: &#8220;Touch The Wishing Stars&#8221; raised \u00a38000 for Toyah&#8217;s mother\u2019s hospice and is now placed permanently in the memorial garden at St. Richards Worcester &#8211; News Source &#8211; Toyah&#8217;s Nov 2018 Blog&#8230; \u2022 Worcester Stands Tall: Browse all our past news on Toyah&#8217;s painted giraffe here&#8230; (Photo \u00a9 Toyah Willcox) \u2022 Toyah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1767,27,45],"tags":[1819,2161,1880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970"}],"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=29970"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29987,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions\/29987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}