{"id":43712,"date":"2026-04-03T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43712"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:39:52","slug":"toyah50-in-the-court-of-the-crimson-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah50-in-the-court-of-the-crimson-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah50: In The Court Of The Crimson Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/toyah-50\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/toyah-50\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/career50b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><strong>2026 marks the 50th year of Toyah\u2019s career!<\/strong>\u00a0Her very first professional job, playing the role of Sue in the BBC\u2019s \u201cSecond City First\u201d television play,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/glitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Glitter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, aired in November 1976 \u2013 having been filmed in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>This year Toyah is touring the UK with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/toyah-confirms-2026-songs-stories-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>An Evening With Toyah: Songs And Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/toyahs-christmas-party-2026-tour-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Toyah\u2019s Christmas Party<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, as well as many other gigs, appearances, releases etc. between these two tours.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah&#8217;s first &#8211; full length &#8211; studio album for well over a decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/crimson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>In The Court Of The Crimson Queen<\/strong><\/a>, was released on 15th September 2008, featuring some of Toyah&#8217;s finest songs: Legacy, Heal Ourselves, Angel In You, Bad Man. The album has been re-released &#8211; with additional songs &#8211; a number of times since the original release. In 2023 <em>ITCOTCQ<\/em> was released with selected songs re-recorded and Toyah saying this was the definitive version of the album.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit that very first release via Dreamscape&#8217;s &#8220;Crimson Queen&#8221; feature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/crimson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/crimson.html noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cqfeature14a.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cqfeature14a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cqfeature14a-300x127.jpg 300w\" alt=\"cqfeature14a\" width=\"600\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dreamscape also had a dedicated News &amp; Press page for all things\u00a0<em>In The Court Of The Crimson Queen<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 this was updated between September 2007 and May 2010 \u2013 View that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/crimsonnews.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 marks the 50th year of Toyah\u2019s career!\u00a0Her very first professional job, playing the role of Sue in the BBC\u2019s \u201cSecond City First\u201d television play,\u00a0Glitter, aired in November 1976 \u2013 having been filmed in 1975. This year Toyah is touring the UK with\u00a0An Evening With Toyah: Songs And Stories,\u00a0Toyah\u2019s Christmas Party, as well as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,38],"tags":[3454,1876,3467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43712"}],"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=43712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43713,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43712\/revisions\/43713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}