{"id":6352,"date":"2012-07-13T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2012-07-17T23:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:12:17","slug":"birmingham-review-preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/birmingham-review-preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Review: Preview: Toyah Willcox &#8211; Walk Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birminghamreview.net\/preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame-presentation-concert-hare-hounds-july-16th\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame-presentation-concert-hare-hounds-july-16th\" rel=\"http:\/\/birminghamreview.net\/preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame-presentation-concert-hare-hounds-july-16th\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame-presentation-concert-hare-hounds-july-16th\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6353\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"brev12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/brev12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><strong>PREVIEW: Toyah Willcox \u2013 Walk of Fame presentation &amp; concert @ Hare &amp; Hounds, July 16th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician, songwriter, actress and author, Toyah Willcox is one of Birmingham\u2019s best known contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday July 16th, Toyah will be the first person celebrated on King Heath\u2019s Walk of Fame, with her memorial star being presented on York Road \u2013 before a one off concert at the Hare &amp; Hounds.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kings Heath, growing up in the family house on Grove Road, Toyah Willcox is a self confessed enemy of convention. Reportedly suffering bullying at school, due to her limp (from a spine defect at birth) and lisp, Toyah turned the tables one day, when she \u2018got into class, picked up chair and threw it at the main bully.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After school, Toyah worked to pay her way through drama school; where a chance referral saw her as \u2018Sue\u2019 \u2013 in Tony Bicat\u2019s short play \u2018Glitter\u2019. From there Toyah was picked for a place at the National Theatre, where she met Derek Jarman \u2013 first appearing as \u2018Mad\u2019 in his seminal punk film, \u2018Jubilee\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/birminghamreview.net\/preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame-presentation-concert-hare-hounds-july-16th\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=preview-toyah-willcox-walk-of-fame-presentation-concert-hare-hounds-july-16th\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Review<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREVIEW: Toyah Willcox \u2013 Walk of Fame presentation &amp; concert @ Hare &amp; Hounds, July 16th Musician, songwriter, actress and author, Toyah Willcox is one of Birmingham\u2019s best known contemporaries. And on Monday July 16th, Toyah will be the first person celebrated on King Heath\u2019s Walk of Fame, with her memorial star being presented on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[150,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352"}],"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=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}