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ā Missy Higgins (@missyhiggins) February 20, 2020
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New single ‘Carry You’ out now
New single ‘Carry You’ out now:Ā missyhiggins.lnk.to/CarryYou
I hadnāt seenĀ UprightĀ before Tim asked me if I wanted to record a song for it, but I was a big fan of Timās work so I knew it would be good. When he played me ‘Carry You’ on the piano I instantly felt how beautiful and universal it was and how I might make it my own.
Sarah Belkner (who plays keyboard for both of us) did an incredible job of wrapping it in some classy, understated production, and I love how it turned out in the studio with her.
After I watched the series (which blew me away, it was so good) I finally understood how multi-dimensional the song is and it made me love it even more. When I sang it in the studio, I felt the ache of regret and the longing for connection through the lyrics, which is something any of us can relate to I think.
Iām so happy to be a part of this project, itās Aussie TV at its absolute best.
Missy x
‘Carry You’ is written by Tim Minchin, and is taken from his new Australian TV show ‘Upright’ on Foxtel.Ā
Missy Higgins to headline ‘A Sunny Afternoon’ festival in Wollongong in March 2020!
Join me forĀ #ASunnyAfternoonĀ in Wollongong this March!Ā āļø
Tickets via www.missyhiggins.com/shows
Melbourne Zoo shows SOLD OUT – tickets to other shows selling fast!
Wow! 3rd and final Melbourne Zoo show is now SOLD OUT. Tickets for Perth, Sydney and Hobart selling fast – head toĀ www.missyhiggins.com/showsĀ quick sticks!
Missy announces Melbourne Zoo and Sydney Coliseum shows!


Watch ‘Total Control’ on ABC TV for original Missy music!
‘The Sound of White’ turns 15 today
I cannot believe it but it has been fifteen years since I released ‘The Sound of White’! Then again, it feels like another lifetime ago that I wrote and recorded those songs, the first of which I wrote when I was fifteen years old myself.
So, on this special day, I wanted to write and tell you what you all mean to me. Itās been a gigantic personal journey for me over the last fifteen years. Iāve made so many mistakes, Iāve broken apart along every seam, been put back together by the things I least expected. Iāve felt connections with audiences so strongly that my entire body felt electrified and boundary-less and Iāve wanted to cry from happiness. Iāve ridden the wave of what it feels like to be in your twenties and learning un-pretty things about yourself every day, Iāve taken risks, Iāve been careful, Iāve crawled away from the light and come running back to it.
And all through that, youāve been there. Without you Iām a lone voice singing to a bedroom wall. At the risk of sounding like Jerry McGuire, you complete the story, every time. So thank you isnāt enough but here it is anyway: Thank you! Thank you!
And to also mark this day, here is a live version of me singing ‘Any Day Now’ at The Palais in Melbourne from the On A Clear Night Tour.
Missy x
Missy Higgins & the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra announcement
Hey everyone!
A few years ago I got asked to do a show with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in this incredible outdoor location called Skyfields in the forest outside Devonport. Iāve always loved playing outdoors as well as with orchestras, both seem to somehow elevate my music to a new level. It was an amazing experience. The songs came alive in unexpected ways when we introduced all the other instruments.
I canāt wait to do it again, this time at Wrest Point Lawns in Hobart on Sat 15 Feb next year. Fan pre-sale start tomorrow, Thu 22 Aug at 10:00am Tasmanian local time and lasts until 10:00am Sat 24 Aug or until allocation exhausted.The pre-sale is happening via my newsletter, so if you haven’t signed up yet head toĀ www.missyhiggins.com/mailing-listĀ and I’ll resend the link an hour before the pre-sale starts. General public on-sale Mon 26 Aug at 10:00am Tasmanian local time.
See you there!
Missy x
Missy Higgins live in Perth announcement

Missy Higgins headlining Handpicked Festival in SA this November
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Missy Higgins to play Queenscliff Music Festival this November
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ā QueenscliffMusicFest (@QueenscliffFest) June 4, 2019
Missy Higgins releases new single ‘Song For Sammy’ for Mother’s Day
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Hey everyone!
Today Iām doing a special little thing. Iām releasing a song for Motherās Day. Itās 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.
Itās 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 somebodyās son, every woman is somebodyās daughter. And how realising that, changes everything.
Anyone thatās been coming to my shows knows that Iāve been playing this song live for quite a while now, and Iāve wanted to release it but itās never quite been the right time. And I realise too now, that having a song for Sammy Iāll have to write one for Luna or thereāll be some serious sibling rivalry going on one day and I aināt paying for those therapy fees! So perhaps thatāll be next, watch this space š I really hope you enjoy it.
A huge Happy Motherās Day to all you amazing mumās out there. It can be such an isolating and challenging time, and these days more than ever itās hard to feel truly connected to each other. So I want to tell you that youāre not alone, I see you out there and youāre doing a bloody incredible job at keeping those little humanās 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. Iāll keep keeping you updated on my goings-on, on the big family/life/music juggle⦠until then!
Love ya,
Missy x
Missy Higgins to headline Caloundra Music Festival!
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ā Missy Higgins (@missyhiggins) April 29, 2019
Missy wraps up Coming Home Tour
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 haveĀ @dansultanmusicĀ 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 itās all a bit haywire from the last couple of months and Iām 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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Coming Home Tour with John Butler Trio+ underway + ‘The Sound of White’ and ‘On A Clear Night’ albums debut #1 and #2 on vinyl charts!
Hi friends, sending you a message from WA where we kicked off the Coming Home Tour with John Butler Trio+ last weekend! Such gorgeous crowds, and so many cute kiddies dancing front of stage! Itās been a truly magical week in Margaret River,Ā especially spending some time with John and Danielle and their beautiful family and community. Yesterday we swam in water holes, sun-baked on rocks, dodged bull ant nests and Christmas spiders, ate homemade spaghetti with salad from the garden and laughed around an un-made fire. This has been good for the soul and so inspiring in so many ways, looking forward. Sammy has been in nudie heaven, running through the bush like a wild man. Then this arvo to top it off John Butler tattooed a beautiful little moon onto my wrist, to represent my daughter, my Luna. My squeezable little love. Now I have an arrow on my foot for my boy Sammy Arrow, and a moon on my wrist for Luna.

‘The Sound of White’ and ‘On A Clear Night’ out on limited edition vinyl for the very first time!
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 āThe Sound of Whiteā and āOn A Clear Nightā are out on limited edition vinyl today!
TheĀ SoundĀ of Whiteā is on white vinyl whileĀ āOn AĀ Clear Nightā is on – yep, you guessed it – clear vinyl (which I didnāt even know was a thing!).Ā Head to www.missyhiggins.com/vinyl to get yours – only 1000 copies of each are available.
Love Missy x
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RE-WATCH ‘MISSY HIGGINS & FRIENDS LIVE’ HERE!
Hi everyone, just wanted to sayĀ the response to last nightās show onĀ @abctvĀ andĀ @doublejradioĀ 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 āThe Special Onesā album, including the new tracks āArrowsā and āRun So Fastā š
Thanks again everyone! X
‘The Special Ones’ Best Of out now + ‘Missy & Friends Live’ this Sunday
Hey gals and guys! Today is a special one (see what I did there?) because Iām releasing into the world my Best Of, āThe Special Onesā!
It really has been quite a crazy ride back through memory lane putting this together, going over old recordings and footage. Iām finding myself feeling even more grateful for everything and everyone out there who has got me to this point. And donāt worry Iām not about to stop, Iām hoping in another 20 years thereāll 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’Ā 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’Ā 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 thereās 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.Ā
VIDEO: Very first high school recording of ‘All For Believing’
Hi friends! Today Iām releasing the very first recorded version of āAll For Believingā thatās on my album āThe Special Onesā 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 ādemoā 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. Thereās also a video that was made during the recording session in a hotel room – I am so young in this I canāt 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)
Missy announces stand-alone headline show on the Gold Coast on Sat 2 Mar!
Queenslanders! Very happy to announce Iām doing a one-off headline show withĀ Dan SultanĀ on Sat 2 Mar at theĀ Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition CentreĀ āļøā±
Fan pre-sale starts Wed 14 Nov at 2:00pm local time (access this by signing up to my newsletter atĀ 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