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Speaker 1: Mister Higgins' new album, The Second Act, is out this Friday,

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Speaker 1: and Missy is with us now, Good morning, You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Hi, guys, are you going good?

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Speaker 1: Not only is the Second Act coming out this Friday,

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Speaker 1: but the second act of the show. We'll be in

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Speaker 1: Kings Park on Sunday, fifteenth of December. Tickets are on

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Speaker 1: sale now through Ticketmaster. Tell us about why is the

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Speaker 1: second Act the second Act?

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Speaker 2: Well, it is, and this new album is about entering

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Speaker 2: the second act of my life, I guess. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I went through a big separation a couple of years

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Speaker 2: ago from my husband, and we have two kids together,

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Speaker 2: so it feels like I'm really moving into the next

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Speaker 2: chapter of my life, taking a big kind of leap

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Speaker 2: into the unknown. And also I'm forty one, just turn

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Speaker 2: forty one, so I'm kind of moving into the second

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Speaker 2: chapter literally age wise, And I think around this age

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Speaker 2: is a lot of kind of no matter what you're

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Speaker 2: going through, there's always a bit of reassessing, I think,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of people I know around me are

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Speaker 2: going through similar kind of reckonings of identity and direction

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Speaker 2: and things like that. So yeah, it kind of grapples

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Speaker 2: with all those big life issues.

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Speaker 3: All those issues been a while between drinks album wise,

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Speaker 3: mis see them. There's been a lot of life happening

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Speaker 3: in between. Did COVID effect that time as well?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: COVID was pretty intense for everyone, wasn't it. Melbourne particularly

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Speaker 2: had a very intense couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it made everybody reassess their value, like

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Speaker 2: reassess what they wanted to do with their life, how

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Speaker 2: they wanted to live, who they were living with. You know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was a bit of an uprooting of everybody's kind

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Speaker 2: of sense of safety and comfort.

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Speaker 1: I do feel that Melbourne had an experience that we

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Speaker 1: can't quite relate to in the same way. Here. You

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Speaker 1: were the most locked down of the world, really, and

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Speaker 1: we were probably the least. I was going to ask

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Speaker 1: why it's been six years since you released an album,

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Speaker 1: but I think you just answered it when you mentioned

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Speaker 1: what's been going on in your life. But coincides with

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Speaker 1: the twentieth anniversary of the Sound of White. First off,

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Speaker 1: can you believe it's been twenty years?

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Speaker 3: Here? Was I four, wasn't it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I know, yeah, it's pretty big twenty years. I

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Speaker 2: have released music over the past six years it's just

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Speaker 2: and I released an album, it was just a mini album.

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Speaker 2: So this is my first full length album it in

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Speaker 2: six years. But yeah, it does coincide with the anniversary

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Speaker 2: of the Sound of White, which is kind of interesting

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Speaker 2: because it is there's definitely some parallels between the two albums,

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and what a huge success it was for you

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Speaker 3: as well. Is a big part of your life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I have a lot to thank that album

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Speaker 2: for really, because it kind of really catapulted me into

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Speaker 2: the music scene.

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Speaker 3: Well, particularly Scar.

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Speaker 1: It was one of those songs when when it came out,

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Speaker 1: it was one of those moments where you have where

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Speaker 1: you go, oh, hang on, this is this is good,

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Speaker 1: this is you know something new?

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Speaker 3: Did you?

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Speaker 1: Did you always feel Scar was going to have that

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Speaker 1: kind of impact on everyone?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't think anybody probably does when

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Speaker 2: they release the song unless you have a massive ego,

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Speaker 2: but I was. It was also, you know, my first

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Speaker 2: album ever, so I had no idea anybody would listen

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Speaker 2: to it. But that that song I did know was

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Speaker 2: a bit of an ear worm, Like yeah I wrote it,

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Speaker 2: it was like, oh my god, I can't cannot get

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Speaker 2: this chorus out of my head. It must be. It

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Speaker 2: must be Catch You One, Catch You One?

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Speaker 3: So good, Hey, missy, I just want to know. As

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Speaker 3: a recording artist, you have to hear your voice over

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Speaker 3: again and hear your songs over again. But how do

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Speaker 3: you go with hearing and seeing yourself back? For example,

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Speaker 3: did you watch yourself on Australian Story on Monday Night?

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Speaker 2: No? Watch myself?

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: I can't read anything about myself or watch myself or

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Speaker 2: listen to myself.

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Speaker 1: Weird.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I can't. I can't stop myself from

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Speaker 2: criticizing myself. I think just like picking up on every

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Speaker 2: little thing and honing in on it. So I'd rather

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Speaker 2: just get the broad strokes from someone else.

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Speaker 1: People that read about themselves just asking for it, don't Yeah,

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Speaker 1: especially say that it was going to be someone who

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Speaker 1: didn't like what you said, especially you're a whole episode

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Speaker 1: of Australian Sorry, there's a lot to pick on.

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Speaker 2: Yah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's pretty like you know, I get very

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Speaker 2: honest and vulnerable because the whole album is so it's

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Speaker 2: pretty intense, absolutely very honest. I had to go there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just thinking back to the first act for a moment,

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Speaker 1: do you remember the first time you heard yourself on

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Speaker 1: the radio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was when I had one triple j unearthed

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Speaker 2: when I was seventeen. And yeah, I heard it on

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Speaker 2: the radio at my my little because I went to

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Speaker 2: boarding school. I heard it little radio that I woke

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Speaker 2: up to every morning. And yeah, it was crazy. It

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Speaker 2: was amazing, and yeah, the best feeling ever.

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Speaker 3: It's very very cool. I'm missing. In a couple of months,

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Speaker 3: you are being inducted, let me say this, into the

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Speaker 3: Aria Hall of Fame. When you found out, how did

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Speaker 3: you feel? And congratulations by the way, yes, congratulations, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was quite surreal. Actually, I felt extremely honored.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when I think about the other people who

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Speaker 2: have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, I can't

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Speaker 2: quite believe I'm going to be in their company.

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Speaker 1: Right Our second actor is in Kings Park on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the fifteenth of December. You have had some bad luck

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Speaker 1: occasionally without tour shows, but I think we're going to

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Speaker 1: be pretty safe on the fifteenth of December. Tickets are

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Speaker 1: on sound now through Ticketmaster and the second act the

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Speaker 1: album is out on Friday. Once again, congratulations on the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Guys, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Every introduction on that show will be Hall of Fame

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Speaker 3: and we'll say that, yeah, exactly. Thanks, Thanks, have a

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Speaker 3: good day.