{"id":37019,"date":"2021-11-24T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=37019"},"modified":"2021-11-24T08:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T08:21:03","slug":"toyah-on-the-radio-bbcr4-extra-backstage-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-the-radio-bbcr4-extra-backstage-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah On The Radio: BBCR4 Extra &#8211; Backstage Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b017x4fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b017x4fl noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27813 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bbcr4ex17a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>Backstage Tales : BBC Radio Four Extra<\/strong><br \/>\nMon 6th\/Tues 7th December : 2.30pm\/2.30am<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midge Ure reveals the bizarre world of musicians on tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He spills the beans on \u2018the rider\u2019, tour catering, tricky artists and overprotective managers and the most eye-watering examples of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll excess, and frugality, backstage. Getting a rock tour on the road is a massive undertaking, particularly if the star has a large entourage. Just feeding the crew is a military operation.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent nearly 30 years on the road, Midge is perfectly placed to reveal the reality of musicians on tour. Fascinated by this bizarre backstage world, Midge goes on a mission to track down music promoters, tour managers, caterers, roadies, record company employees and the stars themselves to gather together the most intriguing and amusing backstage tales. The programme also hears from Jason Donovan, Boy George, Kim Wilde, Toyah Willcox and Martin Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Listen at the BBC Radio 4 Extra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b017x4fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a>. (This originally aired in November 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstage Tales : BBC Radio Four Extra Mon 6th\/Tues 7th December : 2.30pm\/2.30am Midge Ure reveals the bizarre world of musicians on tour He spills the beans on \u2018the rider\u2019, tour catering, tricky artists and overprotective managers and the most eye-watering examples of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll excess, and frugality, backstage. Getting a rock tour on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,2632],"tags":[2855,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019"}],"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=37019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37045,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019\/revisions\/37045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}