{"id":33499,"date":"2020-05-14T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=33499"},"modified":"2020-05-14T02:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T01:05:28","slug":"the-falkirk-herald-pop-heroes-of-the-1980s-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-falkirk-herald-pop-heroes-of-the-1980s-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Falkirk Herald: Pop Heroes Of The 1980s Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirkherald.co.uk\/read-this\/pop-heroes-1980s-unite-fundraising-lockdownfest-2851379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.falkirkherald.co.uk\/read-this\/pop-heroes-1980s-unite-fundraising-lockdownfest-2851379 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33359 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/letsrockld20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><strong>Pop heroes of the 1980s unite for fundraising LockdownFest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the biggest names in \u201980s pop are coming together this weekend for a special online event in aid of charity.<\/p>\n<p>80s LockdownFest will feature appearances by Tony Hadley, Wet Wet Wet, ABC, Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Jason Donovan, Toyah, Hue &amp; Cry, Chesney Hawkes, Brother Beyond, Five Star, Then Jerico and many more on Saturday May 16.<\/p>\n<p>The evening, part of the Let\u2019s Rock season of festivals, will be hosted by Pat Sharp and Dave Benson Phillips. The fun kicks off at 7pm on YouTube and across all the Let\u2019s Rock locations\u2019 Facebook pages.The Let\u2019s Rock season of retro festivals was due to start this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Let\u2019s Rock organisers UK Live said: \u201cWe would really like to thank both our audience and the artists for their amazing support and loyalty, and we really can\u2019t wait to come back bigger and better next year. However, we couldn\u2019t just leave it until then!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirkherald.co.uk\/read-this\/pop-heroes-1980s-unite-fundraising-lockdownfest-2851379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Falkirk Herald<\/strong><\/a>. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk\/whats-on\/whats-on-news\/retro-80s-music-festival-headlined-4130430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Hertfordshire Mercury<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop heroes of the 1980s unite for fundraising LockdownFest Some of the biggest names in \u201980s pop are coming together this weekend for a special online event in aid of charity. 80s LockdownFest will feature appearances by Tony Hadley, Wet Wet Wet, ABC, Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Jason Donovan, Toyah, Hue &amp; Cry, Chesney Hawkes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2240],"tags":[2420,2432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499"}],"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=33499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33501,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499\/revisions\/33501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}