{"id":38688,"date":"2022-09-12T02:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=38688"},"modified":"2022-09-12T02:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:26:02","slug":"blitzed-an-interview-with-toyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/blitzed-an-interview-with-toyah\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitzed: An Interview with Toyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blitzedmag.com\/an-interview-with-toyah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/blitzedmag.com\/an-interview-with-toyah\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-38689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/blitzed22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah remains an iconic figure across several decades of the UK music scene. Outside of her acting career, she chalked up a series of chart hits as a musician including \u2018It\u2019s A Mystery\u2019, \u2018I Want To Be Free\u2019 and \u2018Thunder In The Mountains\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More recently, she returned with the album Posh Pop which reached the top 25 in the UK charts. She also enjoys her regular (and popular) Sunday Lunch video shows, alongside husband Robert Fripp.<\/p>\n<p>This October sees Toyah supporting Billy Idol as part of his Roadside tour. Meanwhile, Toyah\u2019s classic 1981 album Anthem is also being reissued this September. Blitzed sat down with Toyah to discuss her busy autumn plans\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve got the Billy Idol tour coming up in October, which is an interesting contrast. You\u2019re both very different, yet at the same time you\u2019re both seasoned travelers from that fervent 80s pop scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great and don\u2019t forget punk rock. Billy used to be based in London with Generation X, which is when I met him. We both have 45-year careers, are quite diverse in our individual journeys as musicians and then you\u2019ve got Television performing Marquee Moon.<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s quite a clever line up because I\u2019m only on stage for 7:30 to 8:00 o\u2019clock and I\u2019ve got to fit in 28 albums and 15 hit singles. That\u2019s quite a journey to make, but what all of us have in common on this bill is we started in punk and we\u2019ve both, all of us, evolved into rock. I think it\u2019s quite diverse. I\u2019m not just an 80s icon. I\u2019ve been pretty present, especially in the last few years. I think it\u2019s a very clever mix I hope that I can get in some good punk rock material. Obviously the 80s material, but also the new stuff as well because Posh Pop went to No. 1 in 36 charts, 22 in the main charts on August the 27th last year and I\u2019m certainly going to be including some Posh Pop tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/blitzedmag.com\/an-interview-with-toyah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blitzed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah remains an iconic figure across several decades of the UK music scene. Outside of her acting career, she chalked up a series of chart hits as a musician including \u2018It\u2019s A Mystery\u2019, \u2018I Want To Be Free\u2019 and \u2018Thunder In The Mountains\u2019. More recently, she returned with the album Posh Pop which reached the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,145,27],"tags":[2990,2991],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688"}],"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=38688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38690,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688\/revisions\/38690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}