Toni Childs Because You’re Beautiful tour

Toni Childs: Because You’re Beautiful tour
Australia wide: 18 July to 1 September 2012
Toni Childs
Media kit
Media interviews and images
NSW, QLD and ACT : Tracey Whealey | tracey@theshockfactor.com.au | 0417 146 552 | 07 3847 5358
VIC, SA and WA: Trudy Johnston | trudy@vimandzest.com.au | 0402 485 902 | 02 66856762
www.tonichilds.com

MEDIA RELEASE
Toni Childs is back: her Because You’re Beautiful Australiawide
tour (18 July to 1 September) paves the way for
groundbreaking Citizens of the Planet release!
“…evocative, evanescent music that allows you to immerse yourself and drift away.” Rolling Stone
"In a year of auspicious breakthroughs for women writer-performers, Childs was the standout." Time Magazine
From Coffs Harbour to Melbourne and Kalgoorlie, Emmy winner and three-time Grammy nominated recording
artist Toni Childs is back for another 26 date winter tour bringing her famous power-charged vocals and emotive
lyrics to fans everywhere.
Not only will fans be thrilled by favourite hits such as Stop Your Fussin', Where’s the Ocean, Zimbabwe and
Because You’re Beautiful, but also by the news of Toni’s imminent release of her new album Citizens of the Planet
– which has been made entirely possible through her fans’ astonishing support.
Devised by Toni Childs, Citizens of the Planet is music and a state-of-the-art live experience. Music meets TED talks
meets celebration meets evolution!
Across the world, fans in 50 countries have raised more than $170,000 towards the funding of the recording, in
support of true music independence and Toni’s unbridled spirit. Citizens of the Planet is now in its final mixing and
mastering phase and due for release in early 2013.
“This tour will be a special thank you to all those who have so willingly supported me to manifest a vision that dispels
fear and brings us all together as ‘citizens of this beautiful planet’,” says Toni Childs.
“I am a Citizen of the Planet, my purpose is to inspire! It is time for us to shine and shimmer, and blast the doors off
the hinges to our personal cages of limitation! This is our year if we choose it. Let’s declare it, and have the guts to
claim it!”
In a recent five month stint Toni Childs wrote and recorded her upcoming album in Canada with producer Joby Baker,
Adam Dobres (lead guitar), Bear Erikson (guitar) and Chris Van Sickle (key boards). Her new husband, musician and
documentary filmmaker Mik Lavage, created the structured noise on the album, filmed and live-streamed its
production. http://www.hawaiistream.com/video/464 and http://www.tonichilds.com/.
“Hooking up with Producer Joby Baker was the missing piece in my evolution pie. I could not be happier with how the
album is cooking up. I feel that I’ve stepped through a wormhole - into a whole new vibrant sound,” says Toni. “This
is what you hope to do as an artist: grow, evolve, take chances and fly. It’s been important to me to make an album
that I feel is relevant to our time. I feel with Citizens of the Planet I’m doing just that.”
“Now we’re on the homestretch, this tour will galvanise the funds needed to complete last few elements that make
an album ready for the world,” says Toni. “I am so proud and happy to say that this album was funded by citizens of
the planet. It will be an incredible badge of honour to finish this tour knowing that I can say that this album was 100%
fan funded.”
Best known for her heavily R&B-influenced Don't Walk Away, Toni Childs hit the big time in 1988, when her
critically acclaimed debut album Union went Double Platinum in Australia, selling 200,000 albums. The same year
she was nominated for three Grammys including Best New Artist. Her second album, House of Hope went three
times platinum and in 1997, the release of Many Rivers to Cross caused her Greatest Hits album to go five times
platinum, selling over 500,000 albums.
Media interviews and images
NSW, QLD and ACT : Tracey Whealey | tracey@theshockfactor.com.au | 0417 146 552 | 07 3847 5358
VIC, SA and WA: Trudy Johnston | trudy@vimandzest.com.au | 0402 485 902 | 02 66856762
www.tonichilds.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Childs#Career

CONCERT DATES
Wednesday 18 July
Thursday 19 July
Friday 20 July
Saturday 21 July
Thursday 26 July
Friday 27 July
Saturday 28 July
Sunday 29 July
Wednesday 1 August
Thursday 2 August
Friday 3 August
Sunday 5 August
Thursday 9 August
Friday 10 August
Saturday 11 August
Sunday 12 August
Wednesday 15 August
Thursday 16 August
Friday 17 August
Saturday 18 August
Sunday 19 August
Thursday 23 August
Friday 24 August
Saturday 25 August
Sunday 26 August
Thursday 28 August
Saturday 1 September
Coffs Harbour Ex Services Club, NSW
$69 + b/f p. 02 6652 3888 www.cex.com.au
Lismore Workers Club, NSW
$69 + bf, p. 02 6621 7401 www.lismoreworkers.com.au
Twin Towns Tweed Heads, NSW
$45 + b/f, p. 1800 014 014 www.twintowns.com.au
Concert Hall QPAC Brisbane, QLD
$79 - $89 + b/f, p. 136 246 www.qpac.com.au
Glasshouse Theatre Port Macquarie, NSW
$79 + b/f, p. 02 6581 8888 www.glasshouse.org.au
Manning Entertainment Centre Taree, NSW
$79 + b/f from Video Ezy 02 6552 5699, the Venue 02 6592 5466
www.gtcc.nsw.gov.au/mec
State Theatre Sydney, NSW
$79 - $89 + b/f. 1300 139 588 www.ticketmaster.com.au
Civic Theatre Newcastle, NSW
$79-$89 + b/f. p. 02 4929 1977 www.ticketek.com.au
Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre Mt Gambier, SA
$60 + b/f, p. 08 8723 8741 www.helpmanntheatre.com.au
Lighthouse Theatre Warrnambool, VIC
$60 + b/f, p. 03 5559 4999 www.lighthousetheatre.com.au
Regent Multiplex Ballarat, VIC
$60 + b/f, p. 03 5559 4999 www.lighthousetheatre.com.au
Capital Theatre Bendigo, VIC
$60 + b/f, p. 03 5559 4999 www.lighthousetheatre.com.au
Evan Theatre Penrith Panthers, NSW
$79 + b/f, p. 1800 061 991 www.penrith.panthers.com.au
Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra, NSW
$79 + b/f, p.1300 788 503 www.shoalhavenentertainment.com.au
Revesby Workers Club, NSW
$69 + b/f, p. 02 9772 2100 www.revesbyworkers.com.au
Canberra Theatre, ACT
$79-$89 + b/f p. 02 6275 2700 www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, WA
$65 inc b/f BREC Ticketing 1300 661 272 www.bunburyentertainment.com
Fly By Night Fremantle, WA
$45 + $50 b/f Box office 08 9430 5976 www.flybynight.org
Goldfields Arts Centre Kalgoorlie, WA
$65 inc b/f Box office 08 9088 6900 www.goldfieldsartscentre.com.au
Esperance Civic Centre, WA
$65 inc b/f 08 9083 1566 www.esperanceciviccentre.com
Albany Entertainment Centre, WA
$65 inc b/f, 08 9844 5005 or 1800 193 300 www.albanyentertainment.com.au
Chaffey Theatre Renmark, SA
$60 + b/f, p. 08 8586 1800
Northern Festival Centre Keith Mitchell Theatre Port Pirie, SA
$60 + b/f, p. 08 8633 8500
Middleback Theatre Whyalla, SA
$60 + b/f, p. 08 8644 7300
Nautilus Theatre Port Lincoln, SA
$60 + b/f, p. 08 8683 5088 www.civichall.com.au
Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide SA
$65 + b/f Venuetix phone 08 8225 8888 or www.venuetix.com.au
Thornbury Theatre Melbourne, VIC
$53 - $83 + b/f 1300 762 545 www.oztix.com.au

toni childs bio
Toni Childs is an Emmy Winner and three-time Grammy nominated recording artist.
Nearly 25 years after exploding into our pop-rock
consciousness with her critically acclaimed, platinum
selling debut Union, two Grammy nominations (including
one for Best New Artist) and an east coast tour with
childhood idol Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter Toni Childs
emerged a few years ago with a brilliant new album Keep
The Faith and a message for our time.
Beyond affirming her role as an important voice of
inspiration for an entirely new generation, Keep The Faith
is her first album since a full self-healing induced recovery
from Graves disease.
In 2013 she releases Citizens of the Planet, music and a state-of-the-art live experience devised by Toni Childs.
Music meets TED talks meets celebration meets evolution!
Keep The Faith marked a long-awaited creative resurgence with producers David Tickle and David Ricketts. Tickle was the
main producer of Union. Ricketts co-wrote and associate produced many of the tracks on Union and was Childs’ coproducer
and co-writer on her 1991 follow-up House of Hope. The two were also credited producers on her massively
popular 1996 compilation The Very Best Of Toni Childs, the fifth biggest selling album in Australia that year (with over
500,000 copies sold), which featured her riveting cover of Jimmy Cliff’s “Many Rivers To Cross.”
Thousands of Childs’ fans worldwide who had been wondering when she’d do a fourth studio album (her last, 1994’s The
Woman’s Boat, earned her another Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Performance) can credit Eve Ensler (of
Vagina Monologues and Until The Violence Stops fame) with inspiring the singer to dig deep again and let the emotions
that had been brewing for so many years come out. Childs, who had been involved in numerous charitable activities since
moving to Kauai soon after her diagnosis (Free Kauai), was acting in a local production of The Vagina Monologues to raise
money for the island’s YWCA Sexual Assault Treatment Center when Ensler, a longtime fan of Childs’ music, showed up one
night to check out the show. They fast became friends and by night’s end, Ensler asked Toni to write an anthem for Until
The Violence Stops.
Childs, a native of Southern California who signed her first publishing deal with Island Music in London in 1981, was moved
by Enlser’s encouragement to return to music for a great cause. Eve hit a chord with the artist by providing a lofty goal, to
write a song that would inspire people to end the violence that is inflicted on women and children for all time. In
contemplating Eve’s request, Childs had an insight that if violence was really going to end against women and children,
then women first needed to stop inflicting violence upon themselves through low self esteem.
In the years between being diagnosed with Graves disease (a serious thyroid disorder) and getting her music career back
on track, Childs learned the value and emotional and physical healing power of self-love. Committing to a simpler lifestyle,
she bought a 4.5 acre property and became an organic farmer on Kauai, Hawaii. In early 2012 she moved to northern NSW
with her Australian husband Mik Lavage.
Citizens of the Planet:
Toni describes herself, “I am a human being, a citizen of the planet, a woman, a singer, a song writer, a story teller, a self
healer, a dreamer, a believer, a seeker, a lover, a visionary, a beauty, a crier, a shouter, a love pusher, a hallelujah pie
maker, a dancer, a flyer, a swimmer with dolphins, a jumper for joy, a heart you can climb into, a freedom fighter, a
lightening diver, a tree house liver, a farmer, a cultivator, a thumper, a bad guitar player, a cook, a chef, a dolphin, a tree, a
star, and a bee, a laugh and a giggle, a dog and a wiggle, a joke and a smoke, a drink and blink, a run and a walk, a choke
and a sweet talk. I will meet you and greet you, I will hug you and tug you, I will love you and plug you, I will see you and
lead you, I will give large and live large, I will care and I will stare down an issue, I will fight for the love of the planet, I will
fight for my love of you, I will send signals of freedom, I shoot arrows of desire, I yell when I'm really mad, and I cry when I
am confused, I laugh when I'm not trusted and jump when I'm told not to. I see possibility when others don't, I take risks
and not for kicks, I live my dream, and I run to meet what's possible. I want to walk on the water, walk on the seas, I want
to live my desires, I want to set myself free, I want to drink from the lovers’ cup, and drink it all up, I want to blast the
doors off the hinges to my personal cage of limitation!