Gin Wigmore: Kiwi musician on the release of her fourth album 'Beautiful Mess'

After eight years, Kiwi music icon Gin Wigmore has released a new album. 

‘Beautiful Mess’ is her fourth studio album, and has been described as her most personal record yet – drawing on her experiences with love, divorce, motherhood, and rebuilding her life. 

It’s an exciting day for Wigmore, with the full album dropping earlier this morning. 

“It’s like giving birth but way less painful – it's awesome,” she told Mike Hosking. 

Despite having other albums under her belt, Wigmore still feels the pressure that comes with releasing new music. 

“It’s such a feat to put out an album for me now,” she explained. 

“To be focused and have the time to actually do it, and so now it just feels way more of a feat to have had this done, and to have this out today.” 

“It just feels like this really great amount of support around it ... it honestly, it feels like Christmas.”  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Honey, big day for jim Wigborer, first album in eight years,
Beautiful Mess drops today. She was here a couple of
weeks ago, of course, but we wanted to touch base
and celebrate the day in jim wigmore is with us.
Good morning, how.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Are you hello, Dyllan? Good morning?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
What's the sandwich of the day?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
A beautiful Mess obviously.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now this is the you. You've been around long enough
to I mean, so you've got half the albums out
already in terms of singles, so the rest of the
album drops today. So is there is there a day
that you have that it's today or whatever?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
What do you mean? Like it's today? Today is today?
So it is?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It is a day. So what do you do for
the day? Do you have an opening party?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
You're most so many ribbons. I'm just covering ribbons. So
I'm just got say this is with me at all
time and just cutting repens. Basically you're my first call
of the day. So it's like I just woke up
with you, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's quite it's quite intimate.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Really, there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's great. It's so exciting. It's like giving birth but
way less painful. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Does it change I mean, you've been around long enough
to have released other albums, and do you still feel
pressure or a sense of anticipation or what.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh? Yeah, Now it's such a feat to put out
an album for me now, to be focused and have
the time to actually do it, and so now it
just feels way more of fate to have had this
done and they have this out today, and it just
feels like this really great amount of support around it.

(01:47):
So it's so exciting. Honestly, it feels like Christmas. I
thindn't sleep. Yeah, great, good.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, what's the feet given that you've released half the
album in terms of singles, what's the feedback so far?
Is it tracking well? Of the accountants onto you or
the record company fizzing? What's going on there?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Did you see other accountants onto me?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, you know, I mean there's revenue streams and all
that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I love it. Yes, the accounts are not quite onto me,
but use the fans and everyone seems to be loving
it and really enjoying how vulnerable it is and how
raw it is and how sort of eclictic it is
as well, having such a difference between the beautiful side
and the mess side. It feels like you get a
really good, you know, really good palette of widespread kind

(02:37):
of version of lots of different genres and styles and
things like that. So it's a nice diverse plate of music.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Fantastic. Do you make it? Have you made this for
yourself or for everyone? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's honestly, it's therapy. It starts with that. Really, It's
like it's just a way to kind of realize your
thoughts and feeling so you feel a little less mad,
you know, And that's to see, that's the original kind
of starting point of any song for me. And then
it's yeah, it's a really cathartic experience, to be honest.
And then it goes out and this is their cool

(03:13):
part because it goes into everybody else's life now and
seeps into their world and it sort of connects with
them on however their feeling and however they resonate with
the songs. And then I get that feedback when I
play live shows, which is sort of the next step.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
I was going to say, you're touring this obviously.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, totally. My god, you can't get me away from
touring it. It's going to be so much fun. I've
got big plans, my big plan.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, congratulations on the day. Lovely to catch up, come
in and sing us one of the songs. You know,
get up early, bring a guitar in and.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
This early thing doesn't really work for me, Mike, I'm
so sorry. We think of an afternoon date next time again.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, well, we will will arrange something. When they dump
me to drive, I'll get you on the afternoon or
something nice. Anyway, go well today, good luck with it all.
Gin Wigmore, we love it. You can't not love her,
can you? That's what I've learnt this week. I've met
two inspiration that I haven't met them because I've known
the field, But Roger two, Vasishek and Paul Henry uplifted
me immeasurably this week, and she's just done the same.
I love gin Wigmore. Who doesn't love gin Wigmore? There

(04:18):
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