{"id":32948,"date":"2020-03-04T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=32948"},"modified":"2020-03-05T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T09:36:29","slug":"classic-pop-toyah-the-slade-rooms-wolverhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/classic-pop-toyah-the-slade-rooms-wolverhampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Pop: Toyah, The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32949 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/classicpop20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/>As well as giving <em>Toyah Solo<\/em> a four star review, the latest issue (No. 62) of Classic Pop magazine also reviews Toyah&#8217;s gig at the Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before her co-headlining tour with Hazel O&#8217;Connor kicks off, Toyah runs through a brisk set that maps her career from punk icon to Crimson Queen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox is not an easy figure to pin down. From her early days as &#8216;Punk Princess&#8217;, she morphed into a multi-coloured pop star, before enjoying later success with presenting, musical theatre and, perhaps most unexpectedly, children&#8217;s television. Hard to imagine for those who recall her in Derek Jarman&#8217;s <em>Jubilee<\/em> or leaping about on <em>TOTP<\/em>, but there&#8217;s a generation of 20-somethings out there who only know Toyah from <em>Teletubbies<\/em>, <em>Brum<\/em> and as the lead character in <em>Barmy Aunt Boomerang<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Issue 62 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now. (Thanks to Minna of The Toyah Willcox <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahinterview.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Interview Archive<\/strong><\/a> for the scan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as giving Toyah Solo a four star review, the latest issue (No. 62) of Classic Pop magazine also reviews Toyah&#8217;s gig at the Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton in January. Before her co-headlining tour with Hazel O&#8217;Connor kicks off, Toyah runs through a brisk set that maps her career from punk icon to Crimson Queen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2240,51,27,110],"tags":[482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32948"}],"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=32948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32954,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32948\/revisions\/32954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}