{"id":32028,"date":"2019-10-19T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=32028"},"modified":"2019-10-19T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:14:37","slug":"shropshire-star-toyah-demolishes-birmingham-symphony-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/shropshire-star-toyah-demolishes-birmingham-symphony-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire Star: Toyah Demolishes Birmingham Symphony Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/10\/19\/birmingham-music-icon-toyah-has-a-hand-in-symphony-hall-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/10\/19\/birmingham-music-icon-toyah-has-a-hand-in-symphony-hall-redevelopment\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32029 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shropstar19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><strong>Birmingham music icon Toyah has a hand in Symphony Hall redevelopment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want the caption to be: I demolished it,\u201d said Birmingham punk star Toyah Willcox, as she was photographed alongside local musician Rosie Tee outside the redevelopment of Symphony Hall\u2019s foyer this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Birmingham musicians were at the world-renowned music venue in the city centre to witness progress on the Making an Entrance redevelopment, which will create a performance space for talented local artists as part of a daily programme with free and affordable performances.<\/p>\n<p>After the viewing of the Symphony Hall foyer redevelopment, Toyah met Town Hall Symphony Hall members and patrons to answer questions about her career, her current activities \u2013 including a performance as part of Electric Ladies of the 80s with Hazel O\u2019Connor at Town Hall on April 25 \u2013 and her ambitions for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Kings Heath musician Toyah has amassed 13 top 40 singles, recorded 25 albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays, acted in more than 20 feature films and presented hundreds of television programmes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/10\/19\/birmingham-music-icon-toyah-has-a-hand-in-symphony-hall-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Shropshire Star<\/strong><\/a>. (Photo \u00a9 Shropshire Star)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/10\/19\/birmingham-music-icon-toyah-has-a-hand-in-symphony-hall-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/10\/19\/birmingham-music-icon-toyah-has-a-hand-in-symphony-hall-redevelopment\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32030 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shropstar19b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shropstar19b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shropstar19b-300x457.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham music icon Toyah has a hand in Symphony Hall redevelopment \u201cI want the caption to be: I demolished it,\u201d said Birmingham punk star Toyah Willcox, as she was photographed alongside local musician Rosie Tee outside the redevelopment of Symphony Hall\u2019s foyer this week. The Birmingham musicians were at the world-renowned music venue in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[2271,2272,1213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028"}],"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=32028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32031,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions\/32031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}