August 14, 2024 • 5 mins
The incredible Missy Higgins joins Jonesy & Amanda to chat about being inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, it's been a monumental year for Missy Higgins. A tour,
a brand new album both called The Second Act, and
the release of her deeply personal single A Complicated Truth.
This has been twenty years since she hit the scene
with her song Scar, which debuted at number one on
the ARIA Chants, and we can announce with great excitement
that Missy is going to be recognized for her extraordinary talent.
(00:25):
She's going to be inducted in the ARIA Hall of
Fame this year in November. Missy, Hello and congratulations.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hello, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's about time twenty years.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, I know, but I'm still I think I'm the
youngest person to be inducted in so you know, I
haven't particularly been expecting it to happen at this point.
I thought that it was going to be something that
happened when I was old.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, actually that's true, because you're not. How old are
you? You like about thirty, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Thank you very much. It must be a good zoom
filter I've got going on. I'm forty.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I thought, Wow, in what world did missus so Scar
came out when you were twenty? I remember that because
I just yes, and I've got I've got this, uh
like my little personal apple plaything, and Scar comes up
and I just you know, and I find myself singing
along like you, not like you, but that my wife
because I got the headphones, She goes, are you all right?
(01:27):
Is there something good? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You've got such a distinctive voice. Was there ever pressure
along the way to not sound so you?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Ah? Yeah? In the beginning, I when I was recording
my first album, I remember the producer I was working
with said that my the accent was a bit grating
and asked if I could tone it down a bit.
And I mean, I've always been pretty headstrong, so I
was just like, screw you, I'm going to dial it up.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
For Steve Irwin exactly, Well, your sliding door moment was
when you were fifteen years old and you won Triple
Jay's On Earth competition. Would you have been in this
position no matter what? Or do you see that as
a as a door that opened that otherwise couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I have no idea. I often wondered that myself. I mean,
I'm pretty sure I would have kept making music and
kept singing. I mean, my dream was to just sing
in front of a lot of people. But I thought
that that was going to be jazz music because that
was that's what I started out singing in my brother's band,
and then I started writing my own songs later. So
I would have just been pretty happy to keep just singing,
(02:34):
even if it was cover songs, because that's what I
love doing, singing and performing.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And when you do covers, what's your what is your thing?
What do you love singing? If you're singing someone else's stuff,
I love.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I love making songs that are really different from my own,
you know, especially with like a male voice, because that
it's quite easy. It's easier to make it my own.
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You could do like a bit of James Rain there's
a unique saying style.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Or a bit of Joe Dolci shut up your face.
Maybe he's still waiting to get around.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I don't record Joe had done some Kevin Floody will.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
A complicated truth. It's a it's a pretty raw song
about your own marriage breakdown. How hard is it to
write a song like that and then perform it? Is
it cathartic? Or sometimes you think I just can't deal
with this?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's actually it's been amazing because I've just I've been
on the road for five months now and playing these
songs every night has been so cathartic. Like at the
beginning of the tour during rehearsals, I was just breaking down, crying,
going literally just saying, I don't know how I'm going
to do this every night. And now that we've we've
just finished the tour, it feels like I've just processed
(03:45):
so much because the song, all the songs of the
new album are incredibly raw and incredibly vulnerable, and at
the beginning of the tour that was really hard, but
really beautiful to do every night, but very intense, and
by the end of it, I just felt like I
was I was telling my story, but it didn't have
that real pain to it that I did at the beginning.
So yeah, it's been It's been an incredibly therapeutic experience
(04:09):
playing these songs every night.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well you look good for it?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do you look great? He said, you're just out of
the shower.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
You look about ten missus. Fresh out of the shower.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Miguel Maestre, who I worked with on a TV show
called The Living Room. He's a Spanish chef and he speaks.
He's always loved you. But when he was a chef
who wasn't on TV, and he said, he said hello
to you, and you had a photo with him, and
you were the nicest celebrity he has ever met. And
this is the week really, and this is the week
after Pink was there and he said, the the restaurant
(04:41):
ha stayed open for her and he said, can we
have a photo? And she said, I don't have photos
with Randoms on my day off. And so you turned
his head around about how you should be. And now
when people approach him, he thinks about that and how
nice and kind you were.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Really, that's so lovely. Thanks for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, it meant a lot to him.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, you don't want to hear that you're an a hole.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You don't want to hear that you don't have photos
and think, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Quite right, you're going to be performing at the Logis.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Good luck with that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, it's the first time I will have gone to
the Logis and me and my band are very excited.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, we see well, we still see Daryls Summers.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Who knows if Molly comes up to you, just you know,
I think I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Going to if Molly comes up to me, I think
I'm going to give him a big cattle.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's the way to go, that's the way to do it.
You can watch The Hours this November twenty on Stand
and make sure you listen to Missy's new album, The
Second Act. It's out on September sixth. Missy Higgins, thank
you so much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
For having me. Guys,
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, it's been a monumental year for Missy Higgins. A tour,
a brand new album both called The Second Act, and
the release of her deeply personal single A Complicated Truth.
This has been twenty years since she hit the scene
with her song Scar, which debuted at number one on
the ARIA Chants, and we can announce with great excitement
that Missy is going to be recognized for her extraordinary talent.
(00:25):
She's going to be inducted in the ARIA Hall of
Fame this year in November. Missy, Hello and congratulations.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hello, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's about time twenty years.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, I know, but I'm still I think I'm the
youngest person to be inducted in so you know, I
haven't particularly been expecting it to happen at this point.
I thought that it was going to be something that
happened when I was old.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, actually that's true, because you're not. How old are
you? You like about thirty, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Thank you very much. It must be a good zoom
filter I've got going on. I'm forty.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I thought, Wow, in what world did missus so Scar
came out when you were twenty? I remember that because
I just yes, and I've got I've got this, uh
like my little personal apple plaything, and Scar comes up
and I just you know, and I find myself singing
along like you, not like you, but that my wife
because I got the headphones, She goes, are you all right?
(01:27):
Is there something good? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You've got such a distinctive voice. Was there ever pressure
along the way to not sound so you?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Ah? Yeah? In the beginning, I when I was recording
my first album, I remember the producer I was working
with said that my the accent was a bit grating
and asked if I could tone it down a bit.
And I mean, I've always been pretty headstrong, so I
was just like, screw you, I'm going to dial it up.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
For Steve Irwin exactly, Well, your sliding door moment was
when you were fifteen years old and you won Triple
Jay's On Earth competition. Would you have been in this
position no matter what? Or do you see that as
a as a door that opened that otherwise couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I have no idea. I often wondered that myself. I mean,
I'm pretty sure I would have kept making music and
kept singing. I mean, my dream was to just sing
in front of a lot of people. But I thought
that that was going to be jazz music because that
was that's what I started out singing in my brother's band,
and then I started writing my own songs later. So
I would have just been pretty happy to keep just singing,
(02:34):
even if it was cover songs, because that's what I
love doing, singing and performing.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And when you do covers, what's your what is your thing?
What do you love singing? If you're singing someone else's stuff,
I love.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I love making songs that are really different from my own,
you know, especially with like a male voice, because that
it's quite easy. It's easier to make it my own.
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You could do like a bit of James Rain there's
a unique saying style.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Or a bit of Joe Dolci shut up your face.
Maybe he's still waiting to get around.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I don't record Joe had done some Kevin Floody will.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
A complicated truth. It's a it's a pretty raw song
about your own marriage breakdown. How hard is it to
write a song like that and then perform it? Is
it cathartic? Or sometimes you think I just can't deal
with this?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's actually it's been amazing because I've just I've been
on the road for five months now and playing these
songs every night has been so cathartic. Like at the
beginning of the tour during rehearsals, I was just breaking down, crying,
going literally just saying, I don't know how I'm going
to do this every night. And now that we've we've
just finished the tour, it feels like I've just processed
(03:45):
so much because the song, all the songs of the
new album are incredibly raw and incredibly vulnerable, and at
the beginning of the tour that was really hard, but
really beautiful to do every night, but very intense, and
by the end of it, I just felt like I
was I was telling my story, but it didn't have
that real pain to it that I did at the beginning.
So yeah, it's been It's been an incredibly therapeutic experience
(04:09):
playing these songs every night.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well you look good for it?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do you look great? He said, you're just out of
the shower.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
You look about ten missus. Fresh out of the shower.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Miguel Maestre, who I worked with on a TV show
called The Living Room. He's a Spanish chef and he speaks.
He's always loved you. But when he was a chef
who wasn't on TV, and he said, he said hello
to you, and you had a photo with him, and
you were the nicest celebrity he has ever met. And
this is the week really, and this is the week
after Pink was there and he said, the the restaurant
(04:41):
ha stayed open for her and he said, can we
have a photo? And she said, I don't have photos
with Randoms on my day off. And so you turned
his head around about how you should be. And now
when people approach him, he thinks about that and how
nice and kind you were.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Really, that's so lovely. Thanks for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, it meant a lot to him.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, you don't want to hear that you're an a hole.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You don't want to hear that you don't have photos
and think, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Quite right, you're going to be performing at the Logis.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Good luck with that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, it's the first time I will have gone to
the Logis and me and my band are very excited.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, we see well, we still see Daryls Summers.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Who knows if Molly comes up to you, just you know,
I think I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Going to if Molly comes up to me, I think
I'm going to give him a big cattle.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's the way to go, that's the way to do it.
You can watch The Hours this November twenty on Stand
and make sure you listen to Missy's new album, The
Second Act. It's out on September sixth. Missy Higgins, thank
you so much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
For having me. Guys,
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