{"id":36229,"date":"2021-08-25T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=36229"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T15:30:52","slug":"retro-pop-toyah-posh-pop-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/retro-pop-toyah-posh-pop-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Pop: Toyah ‘Posh Pop’ Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Toyah: \u2018In the \u201880s I was treated like an icon, now I know what it\u2019s like living pay packet to pay packet\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toyah is back with \u2018Posh Pop\u2019, her 16th album and first since 2008\u2019s \u2018In The Court of the Crimson Queen\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

The record features 10 brand new compositions, co-written and produced by Simon Darlow, after the singer and her husband, King Crimson\u2019s Robert Fripp, found themselves without work during lockdown.<\/p>\n

Ahead of her latest release, the \u201980s superstar opens up on her new music and accompanying visual project, revealing how the album was born, becoming a YouTube sensation with \u2018Toyah and Robert\u2019s Sunday Lunch\u2019, and how living \u201cpay packet to pay packet\u201d has brought the singer closer than ever to her fans.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 13 years since you released your last album \u2018In The Court of the Crimson Queen\u2019. How did \u2018Posh Pop\u2019 come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To give it context, the majority of \u2018In The Court of the Crimson Queen\u2019 was written in 2007. Around 2017, every song on that album was placed in a musical called \u2018Crime and Punishment\u2019 at London\u2019s Tower Bridge Scoop Theatre. This allowed us to get an official release in 2018 and that\u2019s when Simon Darlow and I added Dance in the Hurricane and Who Let the Beast Out?.<\/p>\n

What happened with \u2018Posh Pop\u2019 is the extraordinary experience of all of our live shows being cancelled or postponed until a later date. Having all this time doesn\u2019t mean that you stop being a creative human being. So we found a way of being able to write and to do the next album, and lockdown enabled us to do that in a very strange way.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at Retro Pop<\/strong><\/a>. Posh Pop<\/em> is released on Friday. Pre-order the album here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyah: \u2018In the \u201880s I was treated like an icon, now I know what it\u2019s like living pay packet to pay packet\u2019 Toyah is back with \u2018Posh Pop\u2019, her 16th album and first since 2008\u2019s \u2018In The Court of the Crimson Queen\u2019 The record features 10 brand new compositions, co-written and produced by Simon Darlow, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2606,145,27],"tags":[2709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36229"}],"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=36229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36234,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36229\/revisions\/36234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}