{"id":30434,"date":"2019-01-18T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=30434"},"modified":"2019-01-29T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:07:58","slug":"toyah-music-40-toyah-sign-to-safari-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-music-40-toyah-sign-to-safari-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Music 40: Toyah Sign To Safari Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/toyah-1979-2019\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/toyah-1979-2019\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30504\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"toyah40ane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/toyah40ane.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>Safari Records\u2019 late 70s\/early 80s timeline of Toyah dates the band signing to the label as January 1979, though their \u201cOur History\u201d implies it may have been late 1978:<\/p>\n<p>In 1978 a Melody Maker postage stamp picture of Toyah together with a small but glowing review of one of the very few gigs that her band had ever played led us to a leaky rehearsal space under Waterloo Bridge, where we saw the band and they signed with Safari who then were pleasantly surprised to learn of Toyah Willcox, actress, her performances in<em> The Corn is Green<\/em> (starring Katherine Hepburn), <em>Jubilee<\/em>, <em>Quadrophenia<\/em> and her current casting as Miranda in Derek Jarman\u2019s forthcoming <em>The Tempest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ttl79aa\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ttl79aa.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safari Records\u2019 late 70s\/early 80s timeline of Toyah dates the band signing to the label as January 1979, though their \u201cOur History\u201d implies it may have been late 1978: In 1978 a Melody Maker postage stamp picture of Toyah together with a small but glowing review of one of the very few gigs that her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2058],"tags":[201,809,2053,2052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30434"}],"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=30434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30509,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30434\/revisions\/30509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}