{"id":35947,"date":"2021-08-07T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=35947"},"modified":"2021-08-07T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:04:15","slug":"nme-toyah-remembers-trying-to-beat-up-adam-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/nme-toyah-remembers-trying-to-beat-up-adam-ant\/","title":{"rendered":"NME: Toyah Remembers Trying To Beat Up Adam Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/en_au\/news\/music\/toyah-willcox-remembers-trying-to-beat-up-adam-ant-i-was-a-terrible-scrapper-3012396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/en_au\/news\/music\/toyah-willcox-remembers-trying-to-beat-up-adam-ant-i-was-a-terrible-scrapper-3012396 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nme21e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah Willcox remembers trying to beat up Adam Ant: \u201cI was a terrible scrapper\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox has recalled an altercation with Adam Ant on the set of Derek Jarman\u2019s iconic punk film Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing her debut appearance on Top Of The Pops in 1981 for NME\u2018s \u2018Does Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Kill Braincells?!\u2019 feature, Willcox recalled being on the same bill as Ant. \u201cEven though I knew Adam Ant and had done Jubilee with him, I was still star-struck by the whole event,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about whether rumours about her once trying to beat Ant up were true, she added: \u201cYes! He formed a band for Jubilee that was needed in a scene called the Maneaters \u2013 I was the singer for it, and Adam\u2019s wife, Eve, was the bassist. The problem was, I was too individualistic and I already had the Toyah Band.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/en_au\/news\/music\/toyah-willcox-remembers-trying-to-beat-up-adam-ant-i-was-a-terrible-scrapper-3012396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NME<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox remembers trying to beat up Adam Ant: \u201cI was a terrible scrapper\u201d Toyah Willcox has recalled an altercation with Adam Ant on the set of Derek Jarman\u2019s iconic punk film Jubilee. Discussing her debut appearance on Top Of The Pops in 1981 for NME\u2018s \u2018Does Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Kill Braincells?!\u2019 feature, Willcox recalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[194,1593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947"}],"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=35947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35949,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions\/35949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}