Stop Your Fussin

I saw Toni Childs last night. My husband and I went to Trees and saw her perform. It was an impromptu thing. Toni has been using Trees during the day when they are closed to rehearse for her Australian Tour, which starts next week. Apparently sometime early yesterday she decided she would perform one set there last night and the owner emailed a few people and sent out those tweets things to a few people. The result was a packed lounge, the usual drunks and a bunch of 50's and up fans.

She was very casual looking, came in and slid into a booth while her band did the set up. She had on some dowdy tan pants and tennis shoes with a baby doll tee shirt with stripes. She had a nice hair cut, about shoulder length and freshly cut into slight layers, which later on we could see was good for shaking her head around. She said that for all of us that didn't know who she was, she was Toni Childs, a Kapaa Town girl and all her music was original and either you hate it or - at which point she did a head flip of her hair.

Then she started singing. She sang Don't Walk Away first, then Where's The Ocean, then Stop Your Fussin. After that she screamed at the crowd about being too F-ing loud. She said it about 4 times, placing the F word in a different place each time. Then she played a song from her new CD I got for Christmas. After that she threw some more profanities at the audience and told one man he had an invitation from her to LEAVE. Another two songs from her new CD and then she very frustrated said the next song would be her last. I don't know it, she said it was from her NEXT CD and it was about Jackson, that's all I know, but it was real good!

I really enjoyed her, she sounded great! She told us she had moved to Kauai because she had Graves Disease and came here to heal and to follow the LOVE - and she pointed at the table where she had been sitting. She sounded very gracious, except for telling us to Shut the F Up numerous times. The house mix was definitely too loud. I think if she had her sound man turn that down, the noise in the room would have gone down. OR, if she really wanted to get people's attention she could have run some feedback through that thing, but all she did was scream at us. That part was unfortunate, but it didn't spoil the music.

She ran off stage after her last song and stood right behind my overstuffed swivel chair and complained to her groupies about how shitty it sounded and how awesome the whole show sounds in a good venue. We waited around awhile for the Hawaiian performer that was coming up next but it got too late. So we left. And there she was out in the parking lot, still ranting about the sound to her group of loyal followers.

I don't know what she expected. It was a BAR. Its good she is leaving today for Australia, because she would never make a living in Kapaa town.

Good luck Toni, you sound great, and thank you for performing for us for free, and putting up with the drunks.

Why you look so sad
When the sky is perfect blue
And you're getting everything
You ever wanted to.

Lets not talk about the bad times
We've been through that before

Stop your fussin
Just stop your fussin
For your time will come
Stop your fussin
Stop your fussin
For your time will come
For your time will come

Songwriter - Toni Childs