September 3, 2024 • 5 mins
Clairsy & Lisa caught up with Missy Higgins who has a new album out so she told them all about that and they asked her about her induction to the ARIA Hall Of Fame.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister Higgins new album, The Second Act is out this Friday,
and Missy is with us now.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning, Welcome, Hi, Hi, guys, say you're going good.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Not only is the Second Act coming out this Friday,
but the second act of the show. We'll be in
Kings Park on Sunday, fifteenth of December. Tickets are on
sale now through Ticketmaster. Tell us about why it is
the second Act the.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Second Act, Well, it is, and this new album is
about entering the second act of my life, I guess.
I mean, I went through a big separation a couple
of years ago from my husband and we have two
kids together, so it feels like I'm really moving into
the next chapter of my life and taking a big
kind of leap into the unknown. And also I'm forty one,
(00:47):
just turn forty one, so I'm kind of moving into
the second chapter literally age wise, And I think around
this age is a lot of kind of no matter
what you're going through, there's always a bit of reassessing,
I think, and a lot of people I know around
me are going through similar kind of reckonings of identity
and direction and things like that. So yeah, it kind
(01:09):
of grapples with all those big life issues.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All those issues been a while between drinks album wise,
me see, there's been a lot of life happening in between.
Did COVID effect that time as well?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
COVID was pretty intense for everyone, wasn't it. Melbourne particularly
had a very intense couple of years.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I think it made everybody reassess their values, like
reassess what they wanted to do with their life, how
they wanted to live, who they were living with. Ye. Yeah,
it was a bit of an uprooting of everybody's kind
of sense of safety and comfort.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I do feel that Melbourne had an experience that we
can't quite relate to in the same way.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You were the most locked down of the world, really,
and we were probably the least.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I was going to ask why it's.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Been six years since you released an album, but I
think you just answered it when you mentioned what's been
going on in your life. But it coincides with the
twentieth anniversary of the Sound of White. First off, can
you believe it's been twenty years? Here?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Was I four, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I know, Yeah, it's been pretty big twenty years. I
have released music over the past six years it's just
and I released an album that was just a mini album,
so this is my first full length album in six years.
But yeah, that's coincide with the anniversary of the Sound
of White, which is kind of interesting because it is
there's definitely some parallels between the two albums, I think.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, and what a huge success it was for you
as well a part of your life.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I have a lot to thank that album for really,
because it kind of really catafaulted me into the music scene.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, particularly Scar.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It was one of those songs when when it came out,
it was one of those moments where you have where
you go, oh, hang on.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
This is this is good, this is you know something new?
Did you?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Did you always feel Scar was going to have that
kind of impact on everyone?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, I mean I don't think any boody probably does
when they release a song unless you have a massive ego,
but I was. It was also, you know, my first
album ever, so I had no idea anybody would listen
to it. But that that song I did know was
a bit of an ear worm, like yeah you wrote it.
(03:18):
It was like, oh my god, I can't cannot get
this chorus out of my head. It must be. It
must be a catchy one, catch you one?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So good, Hey, missy. I just want to know. As
a recording artist, you have to hear your voice over
again and hear your songs over again. But how do
you go with hearing and seeing yourself back? For example,
did you watch yourself on Australian Story on Monday Night?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
No, to watch myself. No, I can't read anything about
myself or watch myself or listen to myself.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Weird.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, well I can't. I can't stop myself from
criticizing myself. I think just like picking up on every
little thing and honing in on it. So I'd rather
just get the broad strokes from someone else.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
People that read about the cells just asking for it,
don't Yeah, yeah, especially say that it was going to
be someone who didn't like what what you said, especially
your a whole episode of Australian Sorry, there's a lot
to pick on.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah. Yeah, that was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, and it's pretty like, you know, I get very
honest and vulnerable because the whole album is so it's
pretty intense, absolutely very honest. I had to go there.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, just thinking back to the first act for a moment.
Do you remember the first time you heard yourself on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, it was when I had one triple j unearthed
when I was seventeen, And yeah, I heard it on
the radio at my my little because I went to
boarding school. I heard it little radio that I woke
up to every morning. And yeah, it was crazy, it
was amazing, and yeah, the best feeling ever. O.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's very very cool. I missing in a couple of months,
you are being inducted, let me say this, into the
Aria Hall of Fame. When you found out, how did
you feel? And congratulations by the way, yes, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Thank you. Yeah, it was quite surreal. Actually, I felt
extremely honored. I mean, when I think about the other
people who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame,
I can't quite believe I'm going to be in their company. Great.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Our Second Actor is in Kings Park on Sunday, the
fifteenth of December. You have had some bad luck occasionally
without tour shows, but I think we're going to be
pretty safe on the fifteenth of December. Tickets are on
sound Now through Ticketmaster and the second act the album
is out on Friday. Once again, congratulations on the Hall
(05:36):
of fame.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Thanks so much, guys, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Every introduction on that show will be Hall of Fame
and we'll say that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly. Thanks. Thanks, I have a good day.
Mister Higgins new album, The Second Act is out this Friday,
and Missy is with us now.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning, Welcome, Hi, Hi, guys, say you're going good.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Not only is the Second Act coming out this Friday,
but the second act of the show. We'll be in
Kings Park on Sunday, fifteenth of December. Tickets are on
sale now through Ticketmaster. Tell us about why it is
the second Act the.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Second Act, Well, it is, and this new album is
about entering the second act of my life, I guess.
I mean, I went through a big separation a couple
of years ago from my husband and we have two
kids together, so it feels like I'm really moving into
the next chapter of my life and taking a big
kind of leap into the unknown. And also I'm forty one,
(00:47):
just turn forty one, so I'm kind of moving into
the second chapter literally age wise, And I think around
this age is a lot of kind of no matter
what you're going through, there's always a bit of reassessing,
I think, and a lot of people I know around
me are going through similar kind of reckonings of identity
and direction and things like that. So yeah, it kind
(01:09):
of grapples with all those big life issues.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All those issues been a while between drinks album wise,
me see, there's been a lot of life happening in between.
Did COVID effect that time as well?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
COVID was pretty intense for everyone, wasn't it. Melbourne particularly
had a very intense couple of years.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I think it made everybody reassess their values, like
reassess what they wanted to do with their life, how
they wanted to live, who they were living with. Ye. Yeah,
it was a bit of an uprooting of everybody's kind
of sense of safety and comfort.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I do feel that Melbourne had an experience that we
can't quite relate to in the same way.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You were the most locked down of the world, really,
and we were probably the least.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I was going to ask why it's.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Been six years since you released an album, but I
think you just answered it when you mentioned what's been
going on in your life. But it coincides with the
twentieth anniversary of the Sound of White. First off, can
you believe it's been twenty years? Here?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Was I four, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I know, Yeah, it's been pretty big twenty years. I
have released music over the past six years it's just
and I released an album that was just a mini album,
so this is my first full length album in six years.
But yeah, that's coincide with the anniversary of the Sound
of White, which is kind of interesting because it is
there's definitely some parallels between the two albums, I think.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, and what a huge success it was for you
as well a part of your life.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I have a lot to thank that album for really,
because it kind of really catafaulted me into the music scene.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, particularly Scar.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It was one of those songs when when it came out,
it was one of those moments where you have where
you go, oh, hang on.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
This is this is good, this is you know something new?
Did you?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Did you always feel Scar was going to have that
kind of impact on everyone?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, I mean I don't think any boody probably does
when they release a song unless you have a massive ego,
but I was. It was also, you know, my first
album ever, so I had no idea anybody would listen
to it. But that that song I did know was
a bit of an ear worm, like yeah you wrote it.
(03:18):
It was like, oh my god, I can't cannot get
this chorus out of my head. It must be. It
must be a catchy one, catch you one?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So good, Hey, missy. I just want to know. As
a recording artist, you have to hear your voice over
again and hear your songs over again. But how do
you go with hearing and seeing yourself back? For example,
did you watch yourself on Australian Story on Monday Night?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
No, to watch myself. No, I can't read anything about
myself or watch myself or listen to myself.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Weird.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, well I can't. I can't stop myself from
criticizing myself. I think just like picking up on every
little thing and honing in on it. So I'd rather
just get the broad strokes from someone else.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
People that read about the cells just asking for it,
don't Yeah, yeah, especially say that it was going to
be someone who didn't like what what you said, especially
your a whole episode of Australian Sorry, there's a lot
to pick on.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah. Yeah, that was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, and it's pretty like, you know, I get very
honest and vulnerable because the whole album is so it's
pretty intense, absolutely very honest. I had to go there.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, just thinking back to the first act for a moment.
Do you remember the first time you heard yourself on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, it was when I had one triple j unearthed
when I was seventeen, And yeah, I heard it on
the radio at my my little because I went to
boarding school. I heard it little radio that I woke
up to every morning. And yeah, it was crazy, it
was amazing, and yeah, the best feeling ever. O.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's very very cool. I missing in a couple of months,
you are being inducted, let me say this, into the
Aria Hall of Fame. When you found out, how did
you feel? And congratulations by the way, yes, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Thank you. Yeah, it was quite surreal. Actually, I felt
extremely honored. I mean, when I think about the other
people who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame,
I can't quite believe I'm going to be in their company. Great.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Our Second Actor is in Kings Park on Sunday, the
fifteenth of December. You have had some bad luck occasionally
without tour shows, but I think we're going to be
pretty safe on the fifteenth of December. Tickets are on
sound Now through Ticketmaster and the second act the album
is out on Friday. Once again, congratulations on the Hall
(05:36):
of fame.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Thanks so much, guys, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Every introduction on that show will be Hall of Fame
and we'll say that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly. Thanks. Thanks, I have a good day.
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