New single ‘Song For Sammy’ 💗 missyhiggins.lnk.to/SongForSammy

Hey everyone!

Today I’m doing a special little thing. I’m releasing a song for Mother’s Day. It’s a ukulele song I wrote for my boy Sammy a little while ago when he was a wee baby. I came up with the melody one night when i was doing laps of the room, rocking him back and forth trying to get him to sleep. I just kept singing this melody over and over and over, so much so that a song started to form in my head. When he finally went to sleep I put him down, went out of the room and quietly sung this song into my phone. The next day I put the lyrics to it.

It’s a song about the crazy extreme emotions that come with being a parent for the first time. The feeling that you would do ANYTHING for this kid, which is at once exhilarating and terrifying. Suddenly your heart is ripped open and exposed to all the elements. Vulnerable but so, so alive. Exhausted but drunk on love. Acutely aware of all the children in the world and how that is, actually, every single goddamn person. How every man is somebody’s son, every woman is somebody’s daughter. And how realising that, changes everything.

Anyone that’s been coming to my shows knows that I’ve been playing this song live for quite a while now, and I’ve wanted to release it but it’s never quite been the right time. And I realise too now, that having a song for Sammy I’ll have to write one for Luna or there’ll be some serious sibling rivalry going on one day and I ain’t paying for those therapy fees! So perhaps that’ll be next, watch this space 🙂 I really hope you enjoy it.

A huge Happy Mother’s Day to all you amazing mum’s out there. It can be such an isolating and challenging time, and these days more than ever it’s hard to feel truly connected to each other. So I want to tell you that you’re not alone, I see you out there and you’re doing a bloody incredible job at keeping those little human’s alive. I also want to send love to everyone doing it tough this weekend, who perhaps has lost their mum, or lost a child. You need all the love and hugs in the world, so as much as I can through the silly internet, I am sending that to you right now.

Thanks everyone, thanks heaps for all your support. I’ll keep keeping you updated on my goings-on, on the big family/life/music juggle… until then!

Love ya,
Missy x

See you on the Sunshine Coast in October! 🐳🌴🌞 https://t.co/mdb5VioAOB pic.twitter.com/uZV6Pt1PEN

— Missy Higgins (@missyhiggins) April 29, 2019

Well the tour is finished. Wow. Great show to finish on at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on Saturday night. We were lucky enough to have @dansultanmusic open up who blew the whole audience away.

I need a little while to recuperate now and concentrate on health and sleep and family as it’s all a bit haywire from the last couple of months and I’m a bit frazzled. Touring with baby is no fricken joke.

But I do want to say thank you so much to the band and crew who are like family and especially you guys, the fans, who came to see us live. Im so so so so grateful you keep coming out and being so generous with your time and energy and allowing me to do what I do, I love it so bloody much and will never take it for granted. Speak soon.

Missy x

 

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Hey gals and guys! Over the years people have always asked me why my first two albums have never been on vinyl… so we finally got our act together and now ’The Sound of White’ and ‘On A Clear Night’ are out on limited edition vinyl today!

The Sound of White’ is on white vinyl while ‘On A Clear Night’ is on – yep, you guessed it – clear vinyl (which I didn’t even know was a thing!). Head to www.missyhiggins.com/vinyl to get yours – only 1000 copies of each are available.

Love Missy x

THE SOUND OF WHITE

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Click here for Sanity

ON A CLEAR NIGHT

Click here for JB HIFI
Click here for Sanity

Hi everyone, just wanted to say the response to last night’s show on @abctv and @doublejradio has been amazing! Thank you all so much for tuning in! It really was such a special experience and I want to say another MASSIVE thank you to everyone involved, you make me feel like a very lucky gal to do what I do. If you missed the show you can watch it anytime on ABC iView, doublej.net.au, Facebook or YouTube (have included the link below). And remember, all these songs are on my new ‘The Special Ones’ album, including the new tracks ‘Arrows’ and ‘Run So Fast’ 😊
Thanks again everyone! X

Hey gals and guys! Today is a special one (see what I did there?) because I’m releasing into the world my Best Of, ‘The Special Ones’!

It really has been quite a crazy ride back through memory lane putting this together, going over old recordings and footage. I’m finding myself feeling even more grateful for everything and everyone out there who has got me to this point. And don’t worry I’m not about to stop, I’m hoping in another 20 years there’ll be a Best Of #2! I still have a whole lot more to say, whether people wanna hear it or not, ha!

New track ‘Run So Fast’ ft. Ben Abraham is on the album, along with my other new song Arrows, the VERY FIRST demo of All For Believing, and a live version of ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’ from my performance at Etihad Stadium. I hope you love this collection of songs and they mean something special to you like they do to me. Listen to ‘The Special Ones’ here.

Also, this Sunday at 8:40pm my show at the Melba Spiegeltent for Ausmusic Month airs on the ABC! I was joined by a superstar lineup of friends: Dan Sultan, Kasey Chambers, Ladychoir, Peter Garrett, Gretta Ray and Ben Abraham and it really was sooooo incredibly special. My mum and husband were in the audience and even got a bit of airtime, much to their surprise! I hope you love watching it, it really was an honour to be a part of.

Next up for me is the Coming Home tour with John Butler Trio+ in Jan/Feb next year which is gonna be awesome!!! Tickets selling fast but some are still available here so get in quick! Really looking forward to these shows with John, we go way back and there’s a lot of mutual respect there. I hope to see your lovely faces in the crowd somewhere soon.

Thanks as always!
Love Missy x

Tune in to ‘Missy Higgins & Friends Live’ this Sunday 25 Nov at 8:40pm on ABC TV. 

Hi friends! Today I’m releasing the very first recorded version of ‘All For Believing’ that’s on my album ‘The Special Ones’ coming out on Nov 23. I was in high school, and being known as a singer/songwriter I was chosen to be the guinea pig for a Roland Music equipment salesman visiting the school. The company apparently liked the song so much that they approached me to ask if they could record the song to be the official ‘demo’ on some their equipment. I was stoked! It was the first time anyone had showed interest in my songs and I felt honoured. This recording is the version my sister, a year or two later, would send in to triple j Unearthed… and winning that changed everything. There’s also a video that was made during the recording session in a hotel room – I am so young in this I can’t believe it was so long ago, ah – I must have been 15! Anyway I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as I do! Missy xx

Click here to pre-order ‘The Special Ones’ album (out Nov 23)

Queenslanders! Very happy to announce I’m doing a one-off headline show with Dan Sultan on Sat 2 Mar at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre ☀️⛱

Fan pre-sale starts Wed 14 Nov at 2:00pm local time (access this by signing up to my newsletter at www.missyhiggins.com/mailing-list, password will be sent out 24 hours before the pre-sale begins), and general public on sale is from Fri 16 Nov at 11:00am local time via www.missyhiggins.com/shows.

Missy xx

Very excited to announce that I’m doing a TV special on the ABC supported by Double J as part of Ausmusic month celebrations on Sun 25 Nov at 8:40pm 🎵✨ This show is going to be so fun, and I’ll have some incredible guests joining me on stage including Peter Garrett, Kasey Chambers, Dan Sultan, Gretta Ray and Ben Abraham! My career all started because of winning triple j Unearthed way back in 2001 so it feels like a pretty cool “coming full circle” moment. There’ll be a chance for you to win tickets to be in the audience so, keep an eye on my socials for more details on this later!

Missy xx

THE SPECIAL ONES • BEST OF COLLECTION
NEW ALBUM OUT NOV 23 • PRE-ORDER NOW

To me, songs can be “special ones” for lots of reasons. Usually, they’re the ones that get the biggest reaction at gigs, the ones that most connect with people, the ones that seem to have touched on some universal truth. They’re the hooky ones you can sing out loud in the shower while no one’s watching and imagine you’re in a stadium. But some are special for other reasons. They’re the ones that unexpectedly squeeze at your heart. They move you in a way you find hard to articulate, they roll to the rhythm of some internal beat you knew was there but couldn’t quite express. This album tries to balance these two types of Special. I hope you enjoy it and, while listening, I hope you’re taken back to some special place in your memory you’d forgotten about. Musical time travel. And for the new songs on here you haven’t heard, maybe you can make some new memories. Special Ones, particular to just you. Happy listening!

Missy xx

LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘ARROWS’

I originally wrote this song for my wedding. The lower register of my voice actually changes a bit when I’m pregnant, I guess it’s the hormones or something but, anyway, I wanted to take advantage of those temporary extra notes to record this song. We only just made it. A couple of days later and it would’ve had to be a duet with our little girl!

BUY / STREAM ‘ARROWS’

VIEW EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PRE-ORDER BUNDLES HERE

DIGITAL PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE HERE

TRACKLISTING

Arrows (previously unreleased)
All For Believing (original demo)
Scar
Ten Days
The Special Two
Steer
Where I Stood
Peachy
Unashamed Desire
Everyone’s Waiting
Set Me On Fire
Shark Fin Blues
NYE
Futon Couch
49 Candles
Cemetery
Oh Canada
Throw Your Arms Around Me (live on Ed Sheeran tour – previously unreleased)
Torchlight
Run So Fast (previously unreleased)

Hi everyone!

Our Perth show for the Coming Home tour is officially sold out! For those who missed out we’ve added an extra date on Sat 2 Feb – you can find all the details below.

Remember, only buy your tickets from my official website, and not from dodgy ticket re-sale places!

Missy x

COMING HOME TOUR 2019
JOHN BUTLER TRIO + MISSY HIGGINS

with special guest Stella Donnelly*

**NEW PERTH SHOW ADDED**
FAN PRE-SALE starts today, Fri 12 Oct 12:00pm local time
(ends Tue 16 Oct 8:00am local time or until allocation exhausted)
Click here for fan pre-sale
GENERAL PUBLIC ON-SALE from Tue 16 Oct 9:00am local time

FRI 25 JAN Wignalls Winery, Albany
SUN 27 JAN Leeuwin Estate Winery, Margaret River
FRI 1 FEB Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth SOLD OUT
SAT 2 FEB Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth NEW SHOW
THU 7 FEB Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
SAT 9 FEB A Day On The Green, All Saints Winery Rutherglen
SUN 10 FEB Stage 88, Canberra
THU 14 FEB Sydney Opera House Forecourt
FRI 15 FEB Sydney Opera House Forecourt NEW SHOW
SAT 16 FEB A Day On The Green, Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley
SUN 17 FEB Park Beach Reserve, Coffs Harbour
SAT 23 FEB Tolosa Park, Hobart

Head to www.missyhiggins.com/shows for general public ticketing links.

*except WA shows

✨ Coming Home Tour with John Butler Trio 👫✨ tickets are on sale now! Head to www.missyhiggins.com/shows to grab yours.
Missy xx

FRI 25 JAN Wignalls Winery, Albany
SUN 27 JAN Leeuwin Estate Winery, Margaret River
FRI 1 FEB Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth
THU 7 FEB Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
SAT 9 FEB A Day On The Green, All Saints Winery Rutherglen
SUN 10 FEB Stage 88, Canberra
THU 14 FEB Sydney Opera House Forecourt
FRI 15 FEB Sydney Opera House Forecourt NEW SHOW
SAT 16 FEB A Day On The Green, Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley
SUN 17 FEB Park Beach Reserve, Coffs Harbour
SAT 23 FEB Tolosa Park, Hobart

Hey everyone, I have some exciting news – today I am announcing that early next year John Butler Trio and I are touring together!!

John and I go way back (he was one of the first people that took me out of the road as a support artist when I was a wee tacker!) and I’m so excited to be touring with him and his crew again. The shows are going to be really special, I’ll have my full band and we’re playing such great venues including, for example, the Sydney Opera House forecourt! Awesome.

As many of you know, my new little bub Luna is just a few weeks old now so this will be the first tour I take her on (apart from the tours I did when she was in my belly!) so it’ll be hectic but lovely to have the whole fam on the road!

Fan pre-sale starts Wed 19 Sep at 12:00pm AEST for 24 hours or until allocation exhausted. Pre-sale password and links will be sent via my mailing list on Tue 18 Sep at 12:00pm – sign up here. General public on-sale from Fri 21 Sept 12:00pm local time.

At the end of this year there’ll be more special things music wise to announce so STAY TUNED (!!!!), and I’ll be in touch. Till then, see you on Instagram/the socials, and hope to see you at some of the shows next year!

Missy xx

Hey everyone, today is the day… it’s out! #Solastalgia, my fifth studio album is released into the world! You can listen to it here.

This album was a monumental undertaking with collaborations across the globe, lots of cases of trial and error, and many, many stolen hours in my little home studio getting it right.

I wanted to write an album full of stories about the end of the world. This idea began, I think, because of my fear of bringing a child into a world of climate change. There are many songs on ‘Solastalgia’ that deal with this, but the album ended up being about something much bigger. It ended up being more like an epic, existential reflection on the passing of time, about the new fears and joys of parenthood, about possible scenarios during an apocalypse where love is the one thing that keeps the soul clinging on… there are songs about lessons learnt from past mistakes, letting go of the ‘stories’ we tell ourselves, and choosing the light over the dark. I hope when you listen to it from beginning to end it tells a story, and that you take from it what you need. I’m really proud of this album so most of all I really hope you like it too!

Where’d you end up now?
Do we even live in the same town?
Do you ever think about that time…
we snuck into the cemetery at night?

Hey everyone, today I release the next single off my album!

It’s called ‘Cemetery’, and is maybe my fav track on the new album. At its essence it’s about a relationship that felt like flirting with death; a heart-exploding kind of love that was dangerous and exhilarating but ultimately could never last. I wrote it with my good friend Pip Norman, who is responsible for a lot of the cool new sounds you’ll hear on this record. Listen to ‘Cemetery’ here.

The full album ‘Solastalgia’ is out on April 27, and there are still a few signed copies available if you pre-order it here.

My upcoming tour in May, I’m excited to say, is pretty much sold out apart for a few limited tickets left for the Toowoomba show at the Empire Theatre. That venue holds very special significance for me, as I filmed the video for my single ‘Torchlight’ inside it, it’s a magnificent old theatre. Tickets to that show are here!

That’s it from me for now – follow me on Instagram for more regular updates and silly photos, otherwise I’ll see you at one of the shows very soon!!

Missy xx

Hi everyone!

For the people who missed out on tickets to my sold out Solastalgia Tour shows, we’re adding an extra dates to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane!

You can find all the details below – pre-sale info will be sent out at 6:00pm tonight, sign up here. These will be the only additional shows – remember, only buy your tickets from my official website, and not from dodgy ticket re-sale places!

Missy x

SOLASTALGIA AUSTRALIAN MAY TOUR 2018

*NEW SHOWS ADDED*
FAN PRE SALE: THU 15 MAR 11:00AM AEDT
(runs for 24 hours or until allocation exhausted)
GENERAL PUBLIC ON SALE: FRI 16 MAR 12:00PM local time

Click here for tickets already on-sale to Toowoomba and Canberra.

ALL SHOWS ALL AGES

WED 2 MAY QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane NEW SHOW
FRI 4 MAY QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane SOLD OUT
SAT 5 MAY Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
SUN 6 MAY Anita’s Theatre, Wollongong SOLD OUT
MON 7 MAY Enmore Theatre, Sydney NEW SHOW
TUE 8 MAY Enmore Theatre, Sydney SOLD OUT
FRI 11 MAY Canberra Theatre SOLD OUT
SAT 12 MAY Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
SUN 13 MAY Palais Theatre, Melbourne SOLD OUT
MON 14 MAY Palais Theatre, Melbourne NEW SHOW

Hello everyone!

A LOT of very exciting news today: firstly my new album ‘Solastalgia’ is out May 4, and is now available for pre-order! Whoop!

It’s a huge journey, this album. It’s a journey through hope and despair, and ultimately hope again. One thing my partner said to me is that it feels like “a meditation on time”. And I think that’s spot on. The notion of time has changed so much for me since becoming a parent. I now feel imperative to someone’s survival yet at the same time completely obsolete in the grander scheme of things. Sometimes I look into the future and think about the world I am bringing my son into and what a debilitatingly huge responsibility that is… I think about the mistakes I’ve made and how I can try to make the future safer for him and his children and their children and their children… but then I think about the capacity for love I now feel in my chest that I never knew was possible and how that in itself gives me so much hope. To know that exists, in the universe. Especially when I think about all the glowing little rotating spheres of love out there in everyone’s chest, full of love for each other, for our favourite friends, our family… When I think about the capacity all of that has to have, it gives me hope.

SO that in a nut-shell is the album. But there’s a lot more to it which I’ll tell you about later. There are heaps of different signed pre-order bundles of the album available (check my website here to see them all), and if you pre-order you get ‘Futon Couch’ and an album track ’49 Candles’.

On to lighter things and the SECOND bit of news is that finally my ‘Futon Couch’ video is out!!! I had an incredible amount of fun dancing all day with these crazy wonderful dancers. It almost appears as though I did a bit of dancing too, which surprises me more than it surprises you, trust me. I’ve never done anything like the clip before (just like I’ve never written a song like ‘Futon Couch’ before) and I thank director Josh Harris for throwing me out of my comfort zone, it was worth it! I hope you love the video too.

The third bit of news (and maybe the best?) is that I am doing my own tour in May! So those of you who won’t get a chance to see me on the Ed Sheeran tour (or will see me but still want to see a proper full-length show, as I’ll only be playing a short set with Ed) please come along! There aren’t a huge amount of dates so get in early with tickets. All the dates and details are below – it’ll be a great show, prepare yourself for four strong women at the front of the stage blowing your wigs off with a tsunami of harmonies. And I’m super stoked to announce my special guest for the tour is the talented, mesmerising singer-songwriter, Gordi. Very excited to have you on the road Gordi!

OK that’s it from me for now. A lot of good stuff happening! See you all soon I hope…

Missy xx

SOLASTALGIA AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2018

WITH SPECIAL GUEST GORDI

FAN PRE SALE: MON 5 MAR 12:00PM AEDT
(runs for 24 hours or until allocation exhausted)
PRE-SALE PASSWORD WILL BE SENT VIA FAN NEWSLETTER AT 11:00AM AEDT – SIGN UP HERE
GP on-sale: Wed 7 Mar 12:00pm AEDT

Click here for all tickets.

FRI 4 MAY QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane
SAT 5 MAY Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
SUN 6 MAY Anita’s Theatre, Wollongong
TUE 8 MAY Enmore Theatre, Sydney
FRI 11 MAY Canberra Theatre
SAT 12 MAY Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
SUN 13 MAY Palais Theatre, Melbourne