{"id":33943,"date":"2020-07-03T20:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=33943"},"modified":"2020-07-04T02:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:48:25","slug":"the-guardian-archive-toyah-willcox-the-thinking-mans-punkette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-guardian-archive-toyah-willcox-the-thinking-mans-punkette\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Archive: Toyah Willcox, The Thinking Man&#8217;s Punkette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/jul\/03\/toyah-willcox-the-thinking-mans-punkette-archive-1980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/jul\/03\/toyah-willcox-the-thinking-mans-punkette-archive-1980 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33944 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/guardian20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>An archive Toyah interview has been re-published today by The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyah Willcox, the thinking man&#8217;s punkette \u2013 archive, 1980<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>3 July 1980: \u201cNo one can rip me off. I\u2019m too much of a bitch,\u201d the self-confessed megalomaniac tells Robin Denselow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Toyah Willcox left a \u201cvery boring all-girls public school\u201d in Birmingham with only one O level, in music, and a whole heap of bad reports. At 14 she\u2019d been banned from art, her favourite subject because her paintings were too erotic. She got into fights, confused the teachers by making her own clothes and \u201cby wearing a Dr Spock haircut with the back of my head shaved. I was a very paranoid kid and I hated every minute of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, at 22, Toyah is being hailed as a sort of Thinking Man\u2019s Punk, and is certainly the most impressive female all-rounder to have emerged in the latter days of the new wave. Earlier this year she won considerable acclaim for her part as Miranda in Derek Jarman\u2019s exquisite film version of The Tempest. Her acting career had already included everything from Jarman\u2019s punk celebration Jubilee, to Quatermass, and Quadrophenia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/jul\/03\/toyah-willcox-the-thinking-mans-punkette-archive-1980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An archive Toyah interview has been re-published today by The Guardian. Toyah Willcox, the thinking man&#8217;s punkette \u2013 archive, 1980 3 July 1980: \u201cNo one can rip me off. I\u2019m too much of a bitch,\u201d the self-confessed megalomaniac tells Robin Denselow Four years ago, Toyah Willcox left a \u201cvery boring all-girls public school\u201d in Birmingham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[489,2500,2499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943"}],"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=33943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33947,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions\/33947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}