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MTV have announced today that Missy Higgins will be performing at the first ever MTV Australian Video Music Awards. Other Australian acts confirmed to play at the awards include Grinspoon, The Dissociatives and Eskimo Joe. MTV Australia will televise the awards live on the 3rd March from 6 – 11pm. If you haven’t yet placed your vote you still can at the MTV AVMA Website. Each entry gives you the chance to win tickets to the awards at Luna Park in Sydney. Voting closes 14th February 2005.

Additional Waveaid tickets will be going on sale this Saturday at 9am through Ticketek www.ticketek.com.au tel: 9266 4800

The tickets available will consist of General Admission (oval tickets) and Reserved Seats for $58 (+ booking fee) and Restricted View Seats for ($38 + booking fee).

For more info visit the Waveaid website at www.waveaid.com.au

“The Sound Of White” returned to the top of the Australian album charts this week. The disc has also just been certified quadruple platinum in this country for sales of 280,000 copies in just over four months.

Thanks to everyone who has enjoyed the album for making these achievements possible.

For those seeking Australian tour news – some March and April shows will be announced about three weeks from now so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, voting closes very soon for Triple J’s Hottest 100 … if you haven’t made your voice heard yet then simply click HERE to find out how.

As part of Triple J’s 30th birthday celebrations, Missy has recorded a version of the first song that the station ever broadcast … “You Just Like Me ‘Cause I’m Good In Bed” by Skyhooks.

The song caused a lot of controvery when 2JJ (as it then was) used it to launch themselves back in 1975. Triple J asked Missy to create a new version of the track and she was happy to give it a shot.

“I’d never actually heard this song before they asked me to record it”, Missy explains. “I was just flattered to be a small part of their birthday celebrations.”

“It was actually really good fun because I got to collaborate with my brother on it – he played piano and helped to produce the track.”

“I’ve got no plans to release the song – it’s just something to say thanks to Triple J. Their early support has allowed me to make music for a living … something I never even dreamed I’d be able to do until they came along.”

Triple J will be broadcasting the tune over the coming weeks as part of their anniversary programming.

The WAVE AID Tsunami Relief concert which Missy Higgins will be performing at on Sat Jan 29th at the Sydney Cricket Ground, went on sale this morning to unprecedented demand and a total of 40,000 tickets were sold in three hours.

The organisers are assessing the staging layout to ensure sightlines are unimpeded for the patrons before releasing the FINAL batch of WAVEAID tickets. The availability of these tickets will be announced as soon as the sightline information is available, but it would be advisable to continue to check with Ticketek for the release of tickets. Private boxes are available by ringing the SCG direct on Ph 1800 885 555.

On behalf of the Australian music community, the event organisers would like to thank all Australian music lovers for their incredible generosity of spirit and their support of WAVEAID so far.

For more info. please check out www.waveaid.com.au

It is currently being announced that Missy will play the Waveaid Benefit concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 29. Missy is donating her services for this event which will help raise funds for the victims of the recent Asian Tsunami.

Missy will perform about eight songs alongside a ‘who’s who’ of Australian artists including Midnight Oil, Powderfinger, Silverchair, John Butler Trio, Finn Brothers, Pete Murray and The Waifs.

Tickets for the show will be only $58 (incl. GST) + booking fee. They will go on sale at 9am on Monday January 17 from Ticketek 02 9266 4800 or www.ticketek.com.au

For further information about this event please check out www.waveaid.com.au

Also a reminder that voting has opened in Triple J’s Hottest 100 poll. There are great prizes up for grabs for people who pick their favourite song/s of the year so if you feel like voting for one of Missy’s songs (eg: “Scar”) then there are two ways to do it:

1) To vote online go HERE

2) To vote via SMS send the name of the song to 191 555.

You can register 10 votes via each method of voting. For more info please checkout the link above.

Voting has opened in Triple J’s Hottest 100 poll. There are great prizes up for grabs for people who pick their favourite song/s of the year so if you feel like voting for one of Missy’s songs (eg: “Scar”) then there are two ways to do it:

1) To vote online go HERE

2) To vote via SMS send the name of the song to 191 555.

You can register 10 votes via each method of voting. For more info please checkout the link above.

Missy will be lending her support to a very special telethon that will happen this Saturday night (January 8) on all commercial TV networks around Australia. She will perform one song live from the steps of the Sydney Opera House to help raise funds for the victims of the recent Asian tsunami.

Limited tickets are available for this event via Ticketmaster but please note, that contrary to some media reports this will not actually be a “concert”. It is a one-off TV event at which a number of artists will each perform one song.

Missy will be programming RAGE on the ABC this Saturday 18th from 11:15pm. For more info check out the RAGE website.

Missy will be performing two songs live this Friday 17th at Darling Harbour for MTV’s Total Request Live. The show goes from 5pm – 7pm. For more info check out the MTV website.