{"id":34362,"date":"2020-08-12T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=34362"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T08:42:59","slug":"national-album-day-first-wave-of-ambassadors-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/national-album-day-first-wave-of-ambassadors-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"National Album Day: First Wave Of Ambassadors Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalalbumday.co.uk\/news\/national-album-day-returns-saturday-10th-october-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.nationalalbumday.co.uk\/news\/national-album-day-returns-saturday-10th-october-2020\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34363 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/albumday20b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Billy Ocean, Blossoms, La Roux, The Psychedelic Furs &amp; Toyah Willcox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Album Day will return for its third edition on Saturday 10 October with the perfect antidote to lockdown blues \u2013 a celebration of arguably music\u2019s greatest decade, the Eighties!<\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox, who emerged from post-punk to become one of the defining voices of the 80s, said: &#8220;I am supporting National Album Day because it is important that future generations do not miss out on the fantastic experience of listening to a whole album of songs&#8230;A culture could be lost if listeners never experience how life changing it is to discover a hidden gem not deemed worthy of being a single by a record company, ie Bowie\u2019s \u2018Lady Grinning Soul\u2019 on Aladdin Sane. When I heard this song I felt the artist was speaking directly to me. Listening to an entire album is enriching and allows the listener precious time to connect with creativity&#8230; Albums are akin to a great book, a great party, a brilliant day in the park&#8230;they are the whole meal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalalbumday.co.uk\/news\/national-album-day-returns-saturday-10th-october-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>National Album Day<\/em> website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalalbumday.co.uk\/news\/national-album-day-returns-saturday-10th-october-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.nationalalbumday.co.uk\/news\/national-album-day-returns-saturday-10th-october-2020\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34364 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/albumday20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/albumday20a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/albumday20a-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Ocean, Blossoms, La Roux, The Psychedelic Furs &amp; Toyah Willcox National Album Day will return for its third edition on Saturday 10 October with the perfect antidote to lockdown blues \u2013 a celebration of arguably music\u2019s greatest decade, the Eighties! Toyah Willcox, who emerged from post-punk to become one of the defining voices of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[2544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34362"}],"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=34362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34366,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34362\/revisions\/34366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}