January 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Clairsy and Lisa talk to award-winning American-born singer Toni Childs on an upcoming show in Karratha, being an Australian citizen and why she uses social media.
See Toni Childs live in concert at the Astor Theatre March 7, as well as following shows in Bunbury and Karratha.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, she hasn't been in town for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
But you can catch Tony Child's at the Asta Theater
Friday the seventh of March.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Tickets are available through ticket Tech.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
She's also performing in Karatha on March the sixth and
Bumbrey on March the eighth, and she's with us now.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Good morning, Tony Child.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, this is a two hour extravaganza. I was gonna
say it's a story of two Tony's, but it's not
a story of two Tony's. It's one Tony, but it's
it's all the hits in one half and new stuff
in the second.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Is that right, that's correct. I like to think of
it like a chocolate box of memories.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So you know when someone gives you a chocolate box,
what do you do? You eat all your favorites first, right, Yeah,
So we're going to have all the fan favorites for
dessert first, and well, it's all the whole evening's actually dessert.
It's like creating new memories, right. And so I tell
(01:00):
one story about what made union union and special about
and launched my career, and so one career and one
story that tells about what's happened that's caused the shift
in the music and this uplifting and basically it's an
evening of getting loved up in a reset which we're all.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Needing absolutely And Tony, you said aloha, but I want
to say get a because you're an aussy these days. Yeah,
have any idea I think about see seeing you on
stage at the concert hall with their no shoes on,
walking aroundto said beautiful voice back in the Union to
eighty eight eighty nine thinking you wouldn't Would you have
thought you'd become an Aussie back then?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I didn't. I wasn't really thinking that way. But I'm
so glad and grateful that I live here and I
am now a Simpson. I'm one of the bunch.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Hey, a very good tell us about the two albums
that do feature in this second half of the Chocolate Box.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's All a Beautiful Noise and Citizens of the Planet.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's right. So I'm dropping three singles this year from
It's All a Beautiful Noise. We've been filming music videos
last year. We have some more filming to do and
super excited because it's time to get some music out
the door. But not only that, this music. I have
a song called I Believe in You Love You've been
(02:22):
looking for and lived and these songs are what I
end the show with, and people feel loved us. I'm
not kidding you. I realize now I have a superpower
and it couldn't kind of arrive at the best possible
time on the planet, I think, And so it really
(02:42):
is a reset for people. I know it sounds kind
of crazy, but I get down into the audience and
I sing directly to people's faces and to see the
transformation and what the songs are saying and what we're
needing to hear, and maybe we've been needing to hear
our whole life. But it's I don't know, some stuff
is coming through. That's quite good.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Citizens.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I've always felt like you were very much a citizen
of the planet. And this show in Caratha is the
Red Earth Arts Precinct. That sounds like something that you
are just made for.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, i'd played there before, they had just built it,
so it was really nice brand news. It'll be nice
to go back and see it lived in a little
bit more.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, I tell you made reference to your voice earlier
how magnificent that instrument is. But was there a certain
age where the family or a singing teacher or something
picked up and went that is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well I was. I think I was like around eight,
maybe seventh, seven thirty, I wasnt anyway. Yeah, I had
a principal of the school as a choir teacher, and
I remember to put us together to do a duet
(03:55):
for parents and teachers little afternoon thing concert, and Gal
I was doing the duet, was was like, can you
please not sing in that voice? And defiantly I sang
even louder. And when my mom said, can we put
her into opera lessons? And I'm so glad that didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But yeah, you were fifteen when you really sort of
got right into music.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Can you tell us how Pink Floyd played a part
in this?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well? I had heard it had been you know, Dark
Side of the Moon had been released, and it just
struck me, like it struck so many people, right, But
I was I had neighbors across the street. I wasn't
allowed to listen to you know, popular music or anything
like that. But my girlfriend who lived across the street,
(04:46):
her boyfriend was much older, and he sort of like
downloaded me with Hendricks and Pink Floyd and Janna's Job,
all this stuff for eight hours, one album after another
after another at woke up my whole being.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And then and they came through cal Palace in Oakland, California.
I was like, I want to go. And my friend
who was my same age, we made it down there,
and uh, it was one of the most incredible experiences
of my life. My little mind was blown.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Good love, that was your mind blown.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
When you're up in football billin, I'd hear that some
people he win, He warms to you, he does open
up and talk. He did he check with you at all?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, he did. I mean the first night that I
we played, I did six shows with him, and in
Philadelphia with a two warm up shows before we went
to New York Radio City Music Hall, and you know,
I'm opening for Bob Dylan and the audiences very much
love and I'm like, okay, you guys need to give
me a break, you know. Yeah, now that I'm playing
(05:55):
before this legend, you know, my knees are knocking, and so,
I mean, I knew a little warmth. And then they
were great. You know, they just kind of like clicked in.
And then when I went to go to my dressing room.
I was walking up these stairs. I felt someone tugging
on my rope and I look behind me and his
Bob Coop said, you can call me anything you want,
(06:16):
but don't call me a legend. Oh and that's my job. Yeah.
But he's always been such a sweetheart to me and
so lovely, and I've continue to know him and his
production manager for all these years.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You also you edited with Peter Gabriel.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That would be another pretty amazing musical moment.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh my god. Yes, and I'm actually hoping so fingers crossed. Yeah,
we'll be doing something else together, so we'll just see
how it goes. But yeah, I wrote this song called
I Met a Man while Peter Gabriel had started WOEMD.
It was early on ninety one and ninety right, so
(07:02):
he had it. I'd been invited to go to his
real studios where he invited musicians from all over the world. Right,
there was twenty seven makeshift recording studios where you had
master musicians from India all over the world, right, and
(07:25):
you were just put together with this wacky fusion of
like what happens when you guys get together, right, And
it was like in being in world music Heaven. Yes,
And while I was there, I ended up writing this
song I met a man, which was about him, and
then I kept santasizing about him singing it with me.
(07:46):
And when I was recording The Woman's Boat, his engineer
co produced that album with me, and so it was like, Okay, Peter,
you gonna come and sing on this, you know, and
he does.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
That's very cool.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Hey, Tony, you mentioned about you know, you have this superpower,
and I'm glad you said that because I believe that
in twenty twenty five, we need hope, optimism and love
more than ever before. And I did bump into a
guy the other day, a neighbor of mine, who said
he has no social media, and I said, I'm thinking
of heading down the same path because I'm sick of
seeing that people just eating each other alive online. Do
you have a social presence online?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I do, and if you go to Blue Sky or
you go to ACT, I don't. Really. I was really
watching the election and everything that was going down and
really and then felt like I needed to say something.
And when I started post fun say quickly were like,
don't post. Yeah, And so I needed an outlet, right,
(08:44):
and then I thought I'm going to add into this
fire and Brimstone here. Yeah, live and action loving moments.
So if you go on you can see this is
just a random drive by love moment, you know what
I mean. Remember to take care of yourself, get off
the screens, go and actually walk down the road, you know,
(09:05):
into nature. Remember to love yourself. This kind of a
stuff because we need this also happening, and I feel
like it's going to get even more amped up.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I hate to say, yeah, I think that's perhaps what
we need on social media is to just fight back
with positivity sometimes tiny before we let you go. There's
something that we love to ask. Do you remember the
first time you heard yourself on the radio?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What can you tell us the story?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I've in Los Angeles and I had a nineteen forty
seven butter yellow Plymouth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
To the Fantastic Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And I was driving it and I had to pull
over to the side of them. The and I first
in his chairs. It was saty, it was stop your
fussing and right right, And that was the first time. Yeah,
and it you know, it's a really nice memory actually.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And here we are, all these years later and people
are gonna go berserk when you do.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Stop you fussing.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
On Friday, March the seventh at the Esta and the
next night in Bumbrie and the night before in Karratha.
Tickets are available through ticke Tech. Tiny, We can't wait
to see you in March.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, lovely to talk to you this morning, you early birds.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yea, I just wish you still had the nineteen forty.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well guess what a woman in Australia bought it. Yes,
and she came to a show and she showed me
a photo. She goes, is this your car?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And yes, I.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Found your art and stuff in the back, underneath the
mat in the trunk and that's how I knew it
was your car.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Treasure. Wow, that's unreal.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
That is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, crazy, Thanks Tiny, Tiny'll bye bye
Well, she hasn't been in town for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
But you can catch Tony Child's at the Asta Theater
Friday the seventh of March.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Tickets are available through ticket Tech.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
She's also performing in Karatha on March the sixth and
Bumbrey on March the eighth, and she's with us now.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Good morning, Tony Child.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, this is a two hour extravaganza. I was gonna
say it's a story of two Tony's, but it's not
a story of two Tony's. It's one Tony, but it's
it's all the hits in one half and new stuff
in the second.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Is that right, that's correct. I like to think of
it like a chocolate box of memories.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So you know when someone gives you a chocolate box,
what do you do? You eat all your favorites first, right, Yeah,
So we're going to have all the fan favorites for
dessert first, and well, it's all the whole evening's actually dessert.
It's like creating new memories, right. And so I tell
(01:00):
one story about what made union union and special about
and launched my career, and so one career and one
story that tells about what's happened that's caused the shift
in the music and this uplifting and basically it's an
evening of getting loved up in a reset which we're all.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Needing absolutely And Tony, you said aloha, but I want
to say get a because you're an aussy these days. Yeah,
have any idea I think about see seeing you on
stage at the concert hall with their no shoes on,
walking aroundto said beautiful voice back in the Union to
eighty eight eighty nine thinking you wouldn't Would you have
thought you'd become an Aussie back then?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I didn't. I wasn't really thinking that way. But I'm
so glad and grateful that I live here and I
am now a Simpson. I'm one of the bunch.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Hey, a very good tell us about the two albums
that do feature in this second half of the Chocolate Box.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's All a Beautiful Noise and Citizens of the Planet.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's right. So I'm dropping three singles this year from
It's All a Beautiful Noise. We've been filming music videos
last year. We have some more filming to do and
super excited because it's time to get some music out
the door. But not only that, this music. I have
a song called I Believe in You Love You've been
(02:22):
looking for and lived and these songs are what I
end the show with, and people feel loved us. I'm
not kidding you. I realize now I have a superpower
and it couldn't kind of arrive at the best possible
time on the planet, I think, And so it really
(02:42):
is a reset for people. I know it sounds kind
of crazy, but I get down into the audience and
I sing directly to people's faces and to see the
transformation and what the songs are saying and what we're
needing to hear, and maybe we've been needing to hear
our whole life. But it's I don't know, some stuff
is coming through. That's quite good.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Citizens.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I've always felt like you were very much a citizen
of the planet. And this show in Caratha is the
Red Earth Arts Precinct. That sounds like something that you
are just made for.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, i'd played there before, they had just built it,
so it was really nice brand news. It'll be nice
to go back and see it lived in a little
bit more.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, I tell you made reference to your voice earlier
how magnificent that instrument is. But was there a certain
age where the family or a singing teacher or something
picked up and went that is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well I was. I think I was like around eight,
maybe seventh, seven thirty, I wasnt anyway. Yeah, I had
a principal of the school as a choir teacher, and
I remember to put us together to do a duet
(03:55):
for parents and teachers little afternoon thing concert, and Gal
I was doing the duet, was was like, can you
please not sing in that voice? And defiantly I sang
even louder. And when my mom said, can we put
her into opera lessons? And I'm so glad that didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But yeah, you were fifteen when you really sort of
got right into music.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Can you tell us how Pink Floyd played a part
in this?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well? I had heard it had been you know, Dark
Side of the Moon had been released, and it just
struck me, like it struck so many people, right, But
I was I had neighbors across the street. I wasn't
allowed to listen to you know, popular music or anything
like that. But my girlfriend who lived across the street,
(04:46):
her boyfriend was much older, and he sort of like
downloaded me with Hendricks and Pink Floyd and Janna's Job,
all this stuff for eight hours, one album after another
after another at woke up my whole being.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And then and they came through cal Palace in Oakland, California.
I was like, I want to go. And my friend
who was my same age, we made it down there,
and uh, it was one of the most incredible experiences
of my life. My little mind was blown.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Good love, that was your mind blown.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
When you're up in football billin, I'd hear that some
people he win, He warms to you, he does open
up and talk. He did he check with you at all?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, he did. I mean the first night that I
we played, I did six shows with him, and in
Philadelphia with a two warm up shows before we went
to New York Radio City Music Hall, and you know,
I'm opening for Bob Dylan and the audiences very much
love and I'm like, okay, you guys need to give
me a break, you know. Yeah, now that I'm playing
(05:55):
before this legend, you know, my knees are knocking, and so,
I mean, I knew a little warmth. And then they
were great. You know, they just kind of like clicked in.
And then when I went to go to my dressing room.
I was walking up these stairs. I felt someone tugging
on my rope and I look behind me and his
Bob Coop said, you can call me anything you want,
(06:16):
but don't call me a legend. Oh and that's my job. Yeah.
But he's always been such a sweetheart to me and
so lovely, and I've continue to know him and his
production manager for all these years.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You also you edited with Peter Gabriel.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That would be another pretty amazing musical moment.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh my god. Yes, and I'm actually hoping so fingers crossed. Yeah,
we'll be doing something else together, so we'll just see
how it goes. But yeah, I wrote this song called
I Met a Man while Peter Gabriel had started WOEMD.
It was early on ninety one and ninety right, so
(07:02):
he had it. I'd been invited to go to his
real studios where he invited musicians from all over the world. Right,
there was twenty seven makeshift recording studios where you had
master musicians from India all over the world, right, and
(07:25):
you were just put together with this wacky fusion of
like what happens when you guys get together, right, And
it was like in being in world music Heaven. Yes,
And while I was there, I ended up writing this
song I met a man, which was about him, and
then I kept santasizing about him singing it with me.
(07:46):
And when I was recording The Woman's Boat, his engineer
co produced that album with me, and so it was like, Okay, Peter,
you gonna come and sing on this, you know, and
he does.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
That's very cool.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Hey, Tony, you mentioned about you know, you have this superpower,
and I'm glad you said that because I believe that
in twenty twenty five, we need hope, optimism and love
more than ever before. And I did bump into a
guy the other day, a neighbor of mine, who said
he has no social media, and I said, I'm thinking
of heading down the same path because I'm sick of
seeing that people just eating each other alive online. Do
you have a social presence online?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I do, and if you go to Blue Sky or
you go to ACT, I don't. Really. I was really
watching the election and everything that was going down and
really and then felt like I needed to say something.
And when I started post fun say quickly were like,
don't post. Yeah, And so I needed an outlet, right,
(08:44):
and then I thought I'm going to add into this
fire and Brimstone here. Yeah, live and action loving moments.
So if you go on you can see this is
just a random drive by love moment, you know what
I mean. Remember to take care of yourself, get off
the screens, go and actually walk down the road, you know,
(09:05):
into nature. Remember to love yourself. This kind of a
stuff because we need this also happening, and I feel
like it's going to get even more amped up.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I hate to say, yeah, I think that's perhaps what
we need on social media is to just fight back
with positivity sometimes tiny before we let you go. There's
something that we love to ask. Do you remember the
first time you heard yourself on the radio?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What can you tell us the story?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I've in Los Angeles and I had a nineteen forty
seven butter yellow Plymouth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
To the Fantastic Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And I was driving it and I had to pull
over to the side of them. The and I first
in his chairs. It was saty, it was stop your
fussing and right right, And that was the first time. Yeah,
and it you know, it's a really nice memory actually.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And here we are, all these years later and people
are gonna go berserk when you do.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Stop you fussing.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
On Friday, March the seventh at the Esta and the
next night in Bumbrie and the night before in Karratha.
Tickets are available through ticke Tech. Tiny, We can't wait
to see you in March.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, lovely to talk to you this morning, you early birds.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yea, I just wish you still had the nineteen forty.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well guess what a woman in Australia bought it. Yes,
and she came to a show and she showed me
a photo. She goes, is this your car?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And yes, I.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Found your art and stuff in the back, underneath the
mat in the trunk and that's how I knew it
was your car.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Treasure. Wow, that's unreal.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
That is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, crazy, Thanks Tiny, Tiny'll bye bye
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