{"id":9426,"date":"2012-11-01T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2012-11-01T20:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:51:35","slug":"express-star-tcrii-birmingham-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/express-star-tcrii-birmingham-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Express &#038; Star: TCRII @ Birmingham Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2012\/11\/01\/review-toyah-willcox-the-ballroom-birmingham\/\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2012\/11\/01\/review-toyah-willcox-the-ballroom-birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9427\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"estcr12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/estcr12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>A review of last night&#8217;s Birmingham Ballroom gig, by David Lumb\u00a0at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2012\/11\/01\/review-toyah-willcox-the-ballroom-birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Express &amp; Star<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review: Toyah Willcox, The Ballroom, Birmingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s more than 30 years since Toyah Willcox launched her solo career \u2013 but anyone who thought the Birmingham singer was done and dusted has reason to think again after a headbanging performance in her home city last night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens left the warmth of their homes on a cold and wet Wednesday evening to see an intimate gig at The Ballroom. Taking to the stage in a black Chinese-style dress with an ornate headdress and boots, she kicked off the show with Good Morning Universe, before moving on to Castaways, Blue Meaning, a song she said was inspired by Tolkien and the Black Country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2012\/11\/01\/review-toyah-willcox-the-ballroom-birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Express &amp; Star<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of last night&#8217;s Birmingham Ballroom gig, by David Lumb\u00a0at the Express &amp; Star. Review: Toyah Willcox, The Ballroom, Birmingham It\u2019s more than 30 years since Toyah Willcox launched her solo career \u2013 but anyone who thought the Birmingham singer was done and dusted has reason to think again after a headbanging performance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110,116],"tags":[440,438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426"}],"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=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}