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The Channel [V] Oz Artist Of The Year is the only public voted award given at the ARIAs. And voting is as easy as heading over to the Channel [V] website to vote online or if you have digital pay TV you can click the red button on your remote.
Voting has started now and the first round of votes closes on Oct 3. From these votes the list will be narrowed down to the top 4 and than you can can vote for your fav artist from the top 4. To help Missy make it into the top 4 VOTE NOW.

Missy has recorded a session for American radio program The World Cafe which will be broadcast on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 (USA time).

The program can be heard on more than 180 stations in the USA. Fans can find their local station by going to The World Cafe website.

Fans not in the USA can listen online at www.xpn.org

Late in the day of broadcast, the audio will also be available on the National Public Radio, NPR, website.

Missy recently played a live set for VH1 in the States. Her performance is now online. Check it out HERE.

Check out Missy’s updated blog on her myspace page. You can automatically receive an email when new posts are added by subscribing to the blog.

You asked for it! A Missy DVD is in the works for release in early October. The DVD titled “If You Tell Me Yours I’ll Tell You Mine” will be the first time that the full story of Missy’s journey from schoolgirl to award winning recording artist has been told on film. Through in depth interviews with Missy, her family and her bandmates, viewers will be given a real insight into Missy’s strong views about music and her place in the world.

The DVD includes over 60 minutes of live footage ranging from childhood home movies through to concert performances from 2004 and 2005. It also includes behind the scenes footage of Missy at work in the recording studio, on holidays, and on tour plus the music videos for “Greed For Your Love”, “Scar”, “Ten Days” and “The Special Two”.

Missy makes a guest appearance on the new Tim Rogers And The Temperance Union double album “Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs” which is out now through FMR. The track Missy appears on is called Ghost Songs and you can listen to it here.

Missy has recorded a version of the Split Enz song ‘Stuff & Nonsense’ for the upcoming Finns tribute album ‘She Will Have Her Way’ due for release on September 24. All of the songs on the album have been recorded by Australia and New Zealand’s finest female singer/songwriters paying tribute to the genius songwriting of Tim & Neil Finn. A full track listing can be viewed here.

We have just added a stack of new US shows to the tour page including some Missy headline shows as well as support gigs for artists Will Hoge, Glen Phillips & Jason Mraz. Check out the tour page for more details. Additional shows may be added so keep an eye out.

It was an eventful birthday for Missy this year. As she was in the USA she actually celebrated it twice – once when it was August 19 Australian time and then the following day when that date arrived in America. On the first of these birthdays she performed “Scar” on the Craig Ferguson TV show before playing a sold out show at famous L.A. club The Troubadour. Check out an exclusive pic of the Craig Ferguson show here and of the Troubadour show here. Half way through the show, the capacity crowd at the Troubadour launched into a rousing version of “Happy Birthday”, prompting the embarrassed singer/songwriter to try to hide behind her keyboard. The following morning Missy flew out to the Colorado Folks Festival in order to see one of her favourite artists – Patty Griffin – perform live. Missy had the rest of the day off before appearing on that same festival on the next evening.

In another birthday treat Missy (who is now officially 22 no matter where you live) awoke to the news that she had sold over 20,000 tickets to her forthcoming Australian shows in their first day on sale. For more information about these gigs please check out the tour section on this site.

Tickets for Missy Higgins’ series of October concerts go on sale nationally at 9am tomorrow. The seven shows under the stars will top an amazing 12 months for the former JJJ Unearthed winner, who has won ARIA, APRA and MTV Awards and been hailed “Artist of the Year” by Rolling Stone Magazine.

To support the announcement of her forthcoming national tour, the title track from Missy’s Album “The Sound Of White” was released as a single this week propelling her album back into the national top 10.

Another Australian favourite Ben Lee will join Missy as a special guest on all of her upcoming Australian shows. Ben’s highly acclaimed album “Awake is the New Sleep” is also currently riding high in the local charts.

In addition to Missy and Ben, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne audiences will have the added pleasure of performances by acclaimed US singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne.

Unfortunately, in a late development, Howie Day has withdrawn from the tour for scheduling reasons. However, his place will be taken by Australian artists Ash Grunwald (Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne), Holly Throsby (Darwin and Tasmania) and The McMenamins (Sydney).

Complete lineups and ticketing info is on the tour page.