{"id":37977,"date":"2022-04-30T22:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T21:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=37977"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:56:32","slug":"classic-pop-toyah-toyah-toyah-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/classic-pop-toyah-toyah-toyah-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!: Review by Classic Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37978 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/classicpop22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"289\" \/>A four star review of the <em>Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!<\/em> reissue, by <em>Classic Pop<\/em> magazine. The CD+DVD and colour vinyl is released on Friday 13th May, and can be pre-ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/?s=toyah%21+toyah%21+toyah%21&amp;post_type=product&amp;et_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most tantalising of promised releases in the ongoing Toyah reissue campaign. Cherry Red have thankfully done what fans hoped in overhauling the band&#8217;s 1980 live album. A word-of-mouth phenomenon that eventually went silver, the concert from famed Wolverhampton 600-capacity Club Lafayette has added its three missing songs including the electrifying, She.<\/p>\n<p>While Toyah Willcox was soon to brilliantly distil her energy into a poppier world, her band&#8217;s original chaos is captured fantastically in an anarchic performance, brought further to life on five tracks filmed on the accompanying bonus DVD, notably a feral Insects.<\/p>\n<p>The DVD also includes the long overdue official release of the ITV documentary Toyah from the same year, which shadowed the singer. For someone who was yet to have a chart hit, it was a commendably prescient programme, though the young Toyah was so magnetic that she was gold dust for anyone curious enough to tune in.<\/p>\n<p>The doc works as cultural history, too, with footage of Toyah&#8217;s Battersea home showing it was possible for struggling musicians to turn a London warehouse into a thriving artistic community on the cheap 40 years ago. What could have been dingy chaos crackles with magnetism, both on audio and visual.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Classic Pop, Issue 75 May\/June 2022, is on sale now! (Thanks to Minna)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four star review of the Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! reissue, by Classic Pop magazine. The CD+DVD and colour vinyl is released on Friday 13th May, and can be pre-ordered here. One of the most tantalising of promised releases in the ongoing Toyah reissue campaign. Cherry Red have thankfully done what fans hoped in overhauling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,27,110,78],"tags":[482,2891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977"}],"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=37977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38814,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977\/revisions\/38814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}