{"id":32882,"date":"2020-02-29T00:48:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=32882"},"modified":"2020-03-05T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T09:45:06","slug":"toyah-solo-review-by-we-are-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-solo-review-by-we-are-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Solo: Review by We Are Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearecult.rocks\/little-tears-of-love-toyah-solo-reviewed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/wearecult.rocks\/little-tears-of-love-toyah-solo-reviewed noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32883 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wearecult20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>A review of <em>Toyah Solo<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/wearecult.rocks\/little-tears-of-love-toyah-solo-reviewed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>We Are Cult<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Little Tears of Love: \u2018Toyah: Solo\u2019 reviewed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2749 This is a fine time to look back at the solo career of an underrated artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I\u2019m too qualified, to give up lie down and die. This is my unsentimental education.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox has been a household name since her eponymous band burst onto the UK pop charts in the early 1980s. Juggling her musical career with high profile work as an actress on stage and screen, and a string of television presenting work was both a blessing for her career longevity and a poisoned chalice when it came to her enduring legacy as an artist in her own right.<\/p>\n<p>The release of Solo \u2013 the first ever Toyah boxset \u2013 is the first step for Willcox and her faithful master of the archives Craig Astley in a bid to right those wrongs.<\/p>\n<p>Compiling most \u2013 but crucially not all \u2013 of Toyah\u2019s solo albums released since the Toyah band broke up in 1984, alongside a collection of rare and unreleased material, plus a bonus DVD, the release starts a dedicated reissue campaign which continues with standalone coloured vinyl pressings of almost every studio album in the set in March, bringing most of them back into print for the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/wearecult.rocks\/little-tears-of-love-toyah-solo-reviewed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>We Are Cult<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of Toyah Solo by We Are Cult. Little Tears of Love: \u2018Toyah: Solo\u2019 reviewed \u2749 This is a fine time to look back at the solo career of an underrated artist. \u201cI\u2019m too qualified, to give up lie down and die. This is my unsentimental education.\u201d Toyah Willcox has been a household name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110,2309],"tags":[2324,2340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882"}],"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=32882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32964,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882\/revisions\/32964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}