{"id":32024,"date":"2019-10-18T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=32024"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:36:19","slug":"the-argus-punk-or-dinosaur-toyah-willcox-is-still-a-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-argus-punk-or-dinosaur-toyah-willcox-is-still-a-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Argus: Punk Or Dinosaur? Toyah Willcox Is Still A Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/17978555.punk-dinosaur-toyah-willcox-still-rebel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/17978555.punk-dinosaur-toyah-willcox-still-rebel\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32025 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/theargus19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/theargus19a.jpg 220w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/theargus19a-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Toyah Willcox, the high priestess of punk, is looking forward to returning to the \u201chot steamy\u201d gigs of her youth.<\/p>\n<p>She is playing a gig at Brighton\u2019s Chalk Live \u2013 formerly The Haunt \u2013 on November 2 and thinks it will be a blast. \u201cI\u2019m very fond of Brighton,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I came here in the Sixties it was a quiet sleepy seaside town, slightly invaded by hippy culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I like about the venue we\u2019re playing is it goes right back to the punk days, it\u2019s a hot, steamy, stand-up venue, it goes back to the punk ethos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toyah, actress, author and rebel, was a key part of the Seventies\/Eighties\u2019 punk scene and starred in cult films Quadrophenia and seminal punk epic Jubilee. Now 61, she was born in Birmingham to a family she describes as remarkable and recalls the potential privilege of her childhood \u2013 her grandfather built many of the city\u2019s landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, she calls herself the \u201cchild from hell\u201d and says she had a violent relationship with her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/17978555.punk-dinosaur-toyah-willcox-still-rebel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Argus<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox, the high priestess of punk, is looking forward to returning to the \u201chot steamy\u201d gigs of her youth. She is playing a gig at Brighton\u2019s Chalk Live \u2013 formerly The Haunt \u2013 on November 2 and thinks it will be a blast. \u201cI\u2019m very fond of Brighton,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I came here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,5,27],"tags":[2118,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024"}],"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=32024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32027,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions\/32027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}