News

Missy will be playing at the Opera House as part of the Max Sessions. For your chance to win head over to the Max Website to enter. Competition closes April 8, 2005.

For all the latest news on Missy’s visit to Austin Texas for the South By South West Music Festival visit www.news8austin.com where you can also view a video of Missy’s arrival. There will be more Missy news on the News 8 site throughout the week so keep on checking back.

An e-card for the upcoming single ‘The Special Two’ is now available HERE. Click to view the new clip and hear the tracks from the single.

Two new desktops are also available at this LINK.

After an amazing sell out of three shows at Sydney’s Enmore theatre a fourth show has been added for Monday the 18th April. For ticket information please see the Tour page.

Ray Lamontagne has had to postpone his Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin shows due to illness so unfortunately Missy will not be appearing as planned. Please be aware that Missy will not be appearing at any of the new shows. Sorry for any inconvenience caused for any Missy fans who were planning on seeing her at these shows.

We have had a heap of emails asking us where you can buy legal downloads of Missy’s songs. For those that don’t already know you can purchase them at the following places:

In Australia:
bigpondmusic.com &
music.ninemsn.com.au

and
iTUNES where available.

In the lead up to the release of ‘The Sound of White’ in the USA Missy has been playing a small number of shows in the US and winning over some new fans. In addition to the Australian Fan pages there are now a number of sites from America. The following sites have been added to the Links page:

MySpace Page
Missy Higgins Fans MySpace Page
Live Journal
PureVolume Page

The first ever Australian MTV Music Awards were held last night at Sydney’s Luna Park. Missy performed ‘The Special Two’ and walked away with the award for Breakthrough Artist.

To see the full list of winners visit the MTV AVMA Site.

Just a reminder that Missy will be performing at the MTV Australian Video Music Awards which are being broadcast live on MTV Australia tonight from 6pm and on Channel 10 Friday 4th March from 9.30pm.

Thanks to everyone who voted for Missy in the RollingStone 2004 Readers Poll. As a result Missy received the Readers’ Pick for Artist of the Year, Best Female Performer and Best New Artist. ‘Scar’ reached #2 in the Readers’ Top 10 Singles, ‘The Sound Of White’ was #5 in the Readers’ Top 10 Albums and #8 in the Critics’ Top 10.

You can also read a very funny interview with Missy in the new April edition of RollingStone which has Missy on the cover with John Butler.