Hi everyone, I’m excited to be playing at the Geelong Arts Centre, on Sunday August 27, as part of their Grand Opening Festival. It’s great to see more music and arts venues opening up!
Tickets are on sale now, so grab yours and I’ll see you there: https://geelongartscentre.org.au/…/all…/missy-higgins/
Hi Friends
Hellooooo, guess what… I’m jumping on stage to do a solo set for my good friends The Waifs, as part of their special 20th anniversary tour, in Melbourne at The Palais Theatre on Saturday June 3rd! I’ve had the pleasure of sharing the stage with these guys so many times over the years, in fact they were the first ever band I opened for on a national tour wayyyyy back in the day. So very grateful for their support in those early days as I tried to convince all their fans to buy my first EP and sign up to my mailing list 😂 This will be very fun and a big throwback to when I opened for them at The Palais back in 2003.
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Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am on Friday April 21.
Missy x
I’m excited to announce I’ll be playing at the Deni Ute Muster in September this year, and will be playing alongside so many of our great singer/songwriters, including Jessica Mauboy, Lee Kernaghan, John Williamson, Travis Collins, Casey Barnes, and more awesome people. Yeehaw!
🎟 Tickets are on sale now.
Hope to see you there 💃 X
Wow very honoured to be nominated for @apraamcos song of the year for Edge Of Something, a song I wrote with @antonypartos and @matteozingalesofficial for the @abctv drama Total Control. Writing songs for both seasons of this incredible show over the course of all the lockdowns was such a special experience and I’m so grateful for the opportunity. Especially thankful to Deborah Mailman, the lead actor, whose performances made it so easy to write to, I was constantly blown away by her portrayal of her character and could have written a hundred more songs just exploring her complexity and strength. I’m so proud of this song. Thank you to everyone who voted 
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What a bloody pleasure and privilege to sing with the Wilcannia Central School kids choir, and their fabulous teacher Sarah. I couldn’t think of a better song to collaborate on than Big Kids, for so many reasons. It’s inspired by a kick-arse Indigenous woman (Deborah Mailman’s character in the ABC drama Total Control) who walks into Parliament and shows them who’s boss. And it’s about showing the rest of the world that they should never underestimate you and what you’re capable of. These girl’s did it proud! Loved collaborating with you all 🖤💛❤️
I went deeper in this chat than I’ve gone in a long time, and Zan held me there beautifully. Thank you Zan.
I’m wrapped to announce that the Red Hot Summer Tour have added 5 NEW shows for next year’s run. 💫📍 Hunter Valley, Swan Valley, Cairns, Jacobs Well and Darwin we’re coming your way! ❤️ Grab your tickets early.. a few shows have already sold out.
🎟 Ticketmaster Pre-Sale 🌟 Tuesday 20th September @ 10am (local time)
🎫 General Public On-Sale 🌟 Thursday 22nd September @ 9am (local time)
Tickets available from HERE Can’t wait to see you all next year 💃
Can’t wait to get back out to South Australia on January 21 for @Sounds By The River, which is taking place the bank of the beautiful Murray River, in Mannum.
I’m wrapped to be playing this one alongside my good friends Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, Mark Seymour, Via & Linda, Ian Moss & Troy Cassar-Daley.❤️
Tickets on sale Thursday @ 9am (local time) 👉 bit.ly/3QgKD3L
See you all there! ⚡️🌈
LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE “I TAKE IT BACK” HERE
MISSY TO FEATURE IN ABC’S 90TH BIRTHDAY TELECAST THIS THURSDAY
Missy Higgins will feature in the ABC’s 90th Birthday Telecast this Thursday evening at 8pm with a special performance from the breathtaking Rungutjirpa (Simpson’s Gap). Her appearance alongside an Australian Arts and Culture ‘who’s who’, extends a long association with the national public broadcaster, stretching back to winning Triple J Unearthed 20 years ago while she was still at high school.
More recently Missy composed and sang for both series of the ABC’s award winning political drama, “Total Control”. The program has attracted worldwide acclaim with The Wall Street Journal applauding “…its biting vision of the prevailing codes, and what passes for right and wrong in political society.” Stuff NZ said: “Total Control offers a scathing examination of Australian politics [and] a clarion call for social justice” and said the music was “a magnificent showcase for the songwriting and singing skills of Missy Higgins”.
This week Missy will release the final track from that celebrated collaboration – a song of empowerment called “I Take It Back” drawn from her “Total Control” mini-album. That ARIA Top 3 hit was inspired by musical fragments Missy initially pieced together to fit certain scenes in the TV show. What started as brief instrumentals gradually grew lyrics and some expanded into full songs across 2020 and 2021 as the show’s themes reverberated publicly in the Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins cases. Missy’s unusually deep association with the show included her fierce lead single “Edge Of Something” which featured as the main promo for Season Two and was premiered live as part of the ABC’s 2022 New Year’s Eve telecast from the Sydney Opera House.
“This song is about reclaiming your story, identity and power as a woman. It draws on the history of women being forced into a cultural narrative that diminishes their power. It creates space for all that fury, resentment and uncomfortable emotion to finally rise to the surface. But it’s also a celebration of everything we have inside us and everything we can achieve once we’ve harnessed this power.” Says Missy of the track.
“This song is about reclaiming your story, identity and power as a woman. It draws on the history of women being forced into a cultural narrative that diminishes their power. It creates space for all that fury, resentment and uncomfortable emotion to finally rise to the surface. But it’s also a celebration of everything we have inside us and everything we can achieve once we’ve harnessed this power” – Missy Higgins
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Missy Higgins today releases her new mini-album “Total Control” – listen here.
The songs from this new mini-album pick up themes of exploitation and female empowerment that run through “Total Control” and which also dominated real world headlines last year as a string of abuse allegations emerging from Parliament House.
Appearing on the TV show “Q&A” late last year, Missy noted that the strong calls for change by leading voices like Brittany Higgins and Australian Of The Year Grace Tame had been a further inspiration for new songs like “Watch Out” and “I Take It Back”.
The latest single to be lifted from “Total Control” is “The Collector” which is described as Missy as “a raw rollicking, stomping sing-along with unashamed venom. It’s the Kill-Bill-esque revenge fantasy of a woman who NEVER forgets”
The “Total Control” mini-album was inspired initially by musical fragments Missy pieced together to fit certain scenes in the ABC’s Total Control soundtrack. What started as brief instrumentals gradually grew lyrics and some expanded into full songs across 2020 and 2021. Missy’s unusually deep association with the show included lead single “Edge Of Something” which featured as the main promo for Season Two.
The program has attracted worldwide acclaim with The Wall Street Journal applauding “…its biting vision of the prevailing codes, and what passes for right and wrong in political society.” Stuff NZ said: “Total Control offers a scathing examination of Australian politics [and] a clarion call for social justice” and said the music was “a magnificent showcase for the songwriting and singing skills of Missy Higgins”.
Over coming months Missy Higgins will headline two separate touring festivals at once – the beachy “Summersalt” and a new all female event called “Wildflower”. The beloved singer/songwriter will also play gigs in cities from Darwin to Torquay, from Birdsville to Broken Hill.
Aptly enough Missy ushered in 2022 with a pre-fireworks performance of the title track on ABCTV’s New Year’s Eve extravaganza – literally starting this busy year with a bang.
“Like lots of people I guess I’m trying to make up for lost time”, Missy explains. “The last two years made me realise how much I missed playing music for people so I want to get out there and do it while we all can. I’m not taking anything for granted anymore.”
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LISTEN TO LEAD SINGLE, MISSY’S COVER OF THE MOTELS’ ‘TOTAL CONTROL’ HERE
Missy Higgins today announces the release of her new mini-album “Total Control”set for release on Friday March 4 and available to pre-order now.
The songs from this new mini-album pick up themes of exploitation and female empowerment that run through “Total Control” and which also dominated real world headlines last year as a string of abuse allegations emerging from Parliament House.
Appearing on the TV show “Q&A” late last year, Missy noted that the strong calls for change by leading voices like Brittany Higgins and Australian Of The Year Grace Tame had been a further inspiration for new songs like “Watch Out” and “I Take It Back”.
The mini-album’s title track – a cover of the Motels’ 1980’s classic – takes on a whole new meaning in light of this backdrop and is sure to be a live highlight of Missy’s forthcoming shows.
LISTEN TO ‘TOTAL CONTROL’ HERE
The “Total Control” mini-album was inspired initially by musical fragments Missy pieced together to fit certain scenes in the ABC’s Total Control soundtrack. What started as brief instrumentals gradually grew lyrics and some expanded into full songs across 2020 and 2021. Missy’s unusually deep association with the show included lead single “Edge Of Something” which featured as the main promo for Season Two.
The program has attracted worldwide acclaim with The Wall Street Journal applauding “…its biting vision of the prevailing codes, and what passes for right and wrong in political society.” Stuff NZ said: “Total Control offers a scathing examination of Australian politics [and] a clarion call for social justice” and said the music was “a magnificent showcase for the songwriting and singing skills of Missy Higgins”.
Over coming months Missy Higgins will headline two separate touring festivals at once – the beachy “Summersalt” and a new all female event called “Wildflower”. The beloved singer/songwriter will also play gigs in cities from Darwin to Torquay, from Birdsville to Broken Hill.
Aptly enough Missy ushered in 2022 with a pre-fireworks performance of the title track on ABCTV’s New Year’s Eve extravaganza – literally starting this busy year with a bang.
“Like lots of people I guess I’m trying to make up for lost time”, Missy explains. “The last two years made me realise how much I missed playing music for people so I want to get out there and do it while we all can. I’m not taking anything for granted anymore.”
Hey Everyone
Well, yet again, god it’ll be good to get this year behind us, huh. I hope you can all find some joy and connection with each other finally over this holiday season. It’s so hard to know what we can look forward to at the moment and what the future holds, but I have a feeling we can safely say that things ain’t going back to what they were. These shows next year will be our chance to dance, sing and shake off the shit show that has been the last two years! To quote myself, the Machine has Started up again, and it ain’t stopping till us ladies sing, and not even then damnit. I’m so bloody excited to get out there and play for you all. I’ve missed it terribly. There’ll be plenty of new songs being played, like my latest single Edge Of Something, as well as of course the good ol’ hits from days of yore.
Below are the show dates (so far) booked for next year, hopefully there is one near you (unless you live in Timbuktu) and I will see you there!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays all you lovely people. And on the theme of being festive, my good friend Ben Abraham and I have recorded a little ditty to soundtrack your bon-bon popping and pudding scoffing. If you’d like to check it out here’s the link: https://benabraham.lnk.to/HYAMLC
Sending love and can’t wait to see your faces next year.
Missy
xx
Sun Dec 19 Sandstone Point Hotel, Sandstone Point QLD (with Paul Kelly)
Sat Jan 29 Lighthouse Festival, Norah Head NSW
Sat Feb 5 SummerSalt Festival, Royal Botanic Gardens, Hobart TAS
Sun Feb 6 SummerSalt Festival, Royal Botanic Gardens, Hobart TAS – SOLD OUT
Sat Feb 12 By The C, Torquay Common, Torquay VIC (with Icehouse) – SOLD OUT
Sun Feb 13 Stomping Of The Grapes, Gerringong NSW
Sat Feb 19 SummerSalt Festival, Coffs Harbour NSW
Sun Feb 20 SummerSalt Festival, Queen Elizabeth Park, Coolangatta QLD
Sat Feb 26 SummerSalt Festival, Stage 88, Canberra ACT
Sun Feb 27 SummerSalt Festival, North Gardens, Ballarat VIC – SOLD OUT
Sat Mar 5 Castelli Estate, Denmark WA
Sun Mar 6 SummerSalt Festival, The Esplanade, Fremantle WA
Sat Mar 12 Wildflower Festival, Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley VIC
Sun Mar 13 SummerSalt Festival, Don Lucas Reserve, Cronulla NSW
Sat Mar 19 Wildflower Festival, Riverstage, Brisbane QLD
Sun Mar 20 By The C, Keirle Park, Manly (with Icehouse) NSW
Mon Mar 21 Great Southern Nights, Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul NSW
Sat Mar 26 SummerSalt Festival, Mildura VIC
Sun Mar 27 SummerSalt Festival, M.O Moran Reserve, St Kilda VIC
Sat Apr 2 Wildflower Festival, Roche Estate, Hunter Valley NSW
Sat Apr 16 Bluesfest, Byron Bay NSW
Sat May 7 Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns QLD
Sat May 28 Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin NT (with Icehouse)
July 5-7 Big Red Bash, Birdsville QLD
Aug 18 -20 Mundi Mundi Bash, Broken Hill NSW
Sat Oct 29 Wildflower Festival, Craigmoor Winery, Mudgee NSW
This was such a wild experience. Not only to play live music for the first time in ages, but to do it in such a magical zen kind of a place: The Peninsula Hot Springs. In one of the songs I’m literally performing on top of a hot springs bath with my feet in the 45 degree water (!!), while watching the sun going down and a 360 degree view over the velvety rolling hills. It was other-worldly. @thesoundau just make the coolest live music videos, I love this show so much. Tune in this Sunday to see my performance and heaps of other great artists perform in crazy beautiful places.
