{"id":31264,"date":"2019-05-01T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=31264"},"modified":"2020-03-08T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:53:22","slug":"crimson-queen-radio-interviews-full-transcripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/crimson-queen-radio-interviews-full-transcripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson Queen: Radio Interviews &#8211; Full Transcripts (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31273 alignright\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/crimsonqueen19mm.jpg\" alt=\"crimsonqueen19mm\" width=\"220\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a>Full transcripts of a selection of Toyah&#8217;s recent radio interviews are available to read at the <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Toyah Willcox Interview Archive<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0A collection of 11 are linked to below. Toyah\u00a0talks <em>In The Court Of The Crimson Queen<\/em>&#8230; and much more! (Photos \u00a9 Official Toyah)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio Ulster: The Arts Show: 26.03.2019<\/strong> &#8211; <em>I believe my generation will always be punk. We were born to rebel and I think that is the generation that is forgetting to grow old <\/em>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-ulster-arts-show.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio Guernsey: John Randall: 27.03.2019<\/strong> &#8211;<em> I was sixty last year on May the 18th and my fans downloaded me to number 1. The unusual thing about that is that I was at that time an unsigned artist. That led to me to having a record deal and re-imagining the album because it&#8217;s been around for about ten years<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-guernsey-with-john.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio Kent: Dominic King: 27.03.2019<\/strong> &#8211; <em>When we released it in 2008 it was literally like a fan release. Very limited edition, only available to the fans who knew my work, who came to see the band. Last year on May the 18th I turned 60 and unbeknownst to me my fans downloaded me to number one in the charts and there was a slight problem with this good news. Because I was not signed to a record label we couldn&#8217;t ask for radio play even though I was number one<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-kent-with-dominic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio Cornwall: David White: 28.03.2019<\/strong> \u2013 <em>It&#8217;s kind of confusing that you have to say it&#8217;s a re-working because for the majority of people who only remember me from the 1980&#8217;s this is actually a brand new album<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-cornwall-with-david.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio Derby: Steve Jordan: 28.03.2019<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Vinyl is just the phenomena of today isn&#8217;t it &#8211; because vinyl is selling more than every other product at the moment<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-derby-with-steve.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio Wales: Eleri Sion: 29.03.2019<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0 <em>For many people it is a new album. For my dedicated fans &#8211; they know it. The writing for this started in 2007 and the first single from this album \u201cSensational\u201d was the Weight Watchers campaign song on TV<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-wales-with-eleri.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/crimsonqueen19kk.jpg\" alt=\"crimsonqueen19kk\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u2022 <strong>BBC Radio London: Jo Good: 12.04.2019<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>I have all the social media outlets and I provide the content but I employ someone, who I met when he was 4 years old, a Toyah fan, who was considered to be my youngest fan \u2013 he&#8217;s now just hit 40 and he now manages my archive, my social media, he&#8217;s even the executor of my will<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-london-with-jo-good.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>\u2022 BBC Radio Sussex\/Surrey: Mark Carter: 14.04.2019 <\/strong>&#8211; <em>Some people have described it as pure joy and is a joyous album and there&#8217;s absolutely no point in me trying to be serious and adult. I do energy and I think this album has it and yes, I really love it. I&#8217;ve been living with some of these songs as long as ten years<\/em> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-sussex-with-mark.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 BBC Radio Hereford &amp; Worcester: Tammy Gooding: 09.04.2019<\/strong> &#8211;<em> I&#8217;m having a really good time. Everything with the album has had such a positive reaction and I&#8217;m 61 this year and I didn&#8217;t expect this to be happening in my life and it&#8217;s really good<\/em> &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-hereford-worchester.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 BBC Radio Devon: Richard Green: 20.04.2019 <\/strong>&#8211; <em>At that time I was an unsigned artist and politically to get radio play and presence you have to be on a label. So a label called Demon Records said &#8220;we have to release this because there&#8217;s an audience who desperately want it&#8221;. So the first song of the album, \u201cSensational\u201d, did start its life around 2009<\/em> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-on-bbc-radio-devon-with-richard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Gaydio: Phil Marriott Meets: 03.04.2019<\/strong> &#8211; <em>It&#8217;s very crimson. It&#8217;s \u201cIn The Court Of The Crimson Queen\u201d. We started writing it ten years ago and we slowly drip-fed it to the fans as we toured constantly. So what happened \u2013 the only way I can explain is because if people know nothing about me \u2026 I was 60 on May the 18th last year and the fans downloaded me to number one in the charts and it was really quite extraordinary because I&#8217;m an unsigned artist<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/toyah-in-conversation-with-phil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All of the above Toyah interviews transcripts, and numerous others, can also be read at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/toyahinterviews.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toyah Willcox Interview Archive at Tumblr<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full transcripts of a selection of Toyah&#8217;s recent radio interviews are available to read at the Toyah Willcox Interview Archive.\u00a0A collection of 11 are linked to below. Toyah\u00a0talks In The Court Of The Crimson Queen&#8230; and much more! (Photos \u00a9 Official Toyah) \u2022 BBC Radio Ulster: The Arts Show: 26.03.2019 &#8211; I believe my generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,5],"tags":[2099,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31264"}],"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=31264"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33042,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31264\/revisions\/33042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}