1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,359 Speaker 1: Mister Higgins new album, The Second Act is out this Friday, 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: and Missy is with us now. 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome, Hi, Hi, guys, say you're going good. 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Not only is the Second Act coming out this Friday, 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: but the second act of the show. We'll be in 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: Kings Park on Sunday, fifteenth of December. Tickets are on 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: sale now through Ticketmaster. Tell us about why it is 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: the second Act the. 9 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: Second Act, Well, it is, and this new album is 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: about entering the second act of my life, I guess. 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: I mean, I went through a big separation a couple 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 2: of years ago from my husband and we have two 13 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: kids together, so it feels like I'm really moving into 14 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 2: the next chapter of my life and taking a big 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: kind of leap into the unknown. And also I'm forty one, 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 2: just turn forty one, so I'm kind of moving into 17 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: the second chapter literally age wise, And I think around 18 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: this age is a lot of kind of no matter 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: what you're going through, there's always a bit of reassessing, 20 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: I think, and a lot of people I know around 21 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: me are going through similar kind of reckonings of identity 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: and direction and things like that. So yeah, it kind 23 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: of grapples with all those big life issues. 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 3: All those issues been a while between drinks album wise, 25 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: me see, there's been a lot of life happening in between. 26 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 3: Did COVID effect that time as well? 27 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 4: Yeah? 28 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 2: COVID was pretty intense for everyone, wasn't it. Melbourne particularly 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: had a very intense couple of years. 30 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 4: Yes. 31 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it made everybody reassess their values, like 32 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 2: reassess what they wanted to do with their life, how 33 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 2: they wanted to live, who they were living with. Ye. Yeah, 34 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 2: it was a bit of an uprooting of everybody's kind 35 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 2: of sense of safety and comfort. 36 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: I do feel that Melbourne had an experience that we 37 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: can't quite relate to in the same way. 38 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 4: Here. 39 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: You were the most locked down of the world, really, 40 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: and we were probably the least. 41 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 4: I was going to ask why it's. 42 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: Been six years since you released an album, but I 43 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: think you just answered it when you mentioned what's been 44 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: going on in your life. But it coincides with the 45 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary of the Sound of White. First off, can 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: you believe it's been twenty years? Here? 47 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 3: Was I four, wasn't it? 48 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 4: Yeah? 49 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: I know, Yeah, it's been pretty big twenty years. I 50 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 2: have released music over the past six years it's just 51 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: and I released an album that was just a mini album, 52 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 2: so this is my first full length album in six years. 53 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: But yeah, that's coincide with the anniversary of the Sound 54 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: of White, which is kind of interesting because it is 55 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,839 Speaker 2: there's definitely some parallels between the two albums, I think. 56 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, and what a huge success it was for you 57 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 3: as well a part of your life. 58 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 4: Yeah. 59 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a lot to thank that album for really, 60 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: because it kind of really catafaulted me into the music scene. 61 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 4: Well, particularly Scar. 62 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: It was one of those songs when when it came out, 63 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 1: it was one of those moments where you have where 64 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: you go, oh, hang on. 65 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 4: This is this is good, this is you know something new? 66 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 4: Did you? 67 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: Did you always feel Scar was going to have that 68 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: kind of impact on everyone? 69 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't think any boody probably does 70 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 2: when they release a song unless you have a massive ego, 71 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 2: but I was. It was also, you know, my first 72 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: album ever, so I had no idea anybody would listen 73 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: to it. But that that song I did know was 74 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: a bit of an ear worm, like yeah you wrote it. 75 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 2: It was like, oh my god, I can't cannot get 76 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 2: this chorus out of my head. It must be. It 77 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 2: must be a catchy one, catch you one? 78 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: So good, Hey, missy. I just want to know. As 79 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 3: a recording artist, you have to hear your voice over 80 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: again and hear your songs over again. But how do 81 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: you go with hearing and seeing yourself back? For example, 82 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 3: did you watch yourself on Australian Story on Monday Night? 83 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: No, to watch myself. No, I can't read anything about 84 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: myself or watch myself or listen to myself. 85 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 4: Weird. 86 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I can't. I can't stop myself from 87 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 2: criticizing myself. I think just like picking up on every 88 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,119 Speaker 2: little thing and honing in on it. So I'd rather 89 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 2: just get the broad strokes from someone else. 90 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: People that read about the cells just asking for it, 91 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: don't Yeah, yeah, especially say that it was going to 92 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: be someone who didn't like what what you said, especially 93 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: your a whole episode of Australian Sorry, there's a lot 94 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: to pick on. 95 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that was wonderful. 96 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's pretty like, you know, I get very 97 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 2: honest and vulnerable because the whole album is so it's 98 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 2: pretty intense, absolutely very honest. I had to go there. 99 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, just thinking back to the first act for a moment. 100 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you heard yourself on 101 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: the radio. 102 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was when I had one triple j unearthed 103 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 2: when I was seventeen, And yeah, I heard it on 104 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: the radio at my my little because I went to 105 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 2: boarding school. I heard it little radio that I woke 106 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 2: up to every morning. And yeah, it was crazy, it 107 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 2: was amazing, and yeah, the best feeling ever. O. 108 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 3: It's very very cool. I missing in a couple of months, 109 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 3: you are being inducted, let me say this, into the 110 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 3: Aria Hall of Fame. When you found out, how did 111 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: you feel? And congratulations by the way, yes, congratulations. 112 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, it was quite surreal. Actually, I felt 113 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 2: extremely honored. I mean, when I think about the other 114 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 2: people who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, 115 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: I can't quite believe I'm going to be in their company. Great. 116 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: Our Second Actor is in Kings Park on Sunday, the 117 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: fifteenth of December. You have had some bad luck occasionally 118 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: without tour shows, but I think we're going to be 119 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: pretty safe on the fifteenth of December. Tickets are on 120 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: sound Now through Ticketmaster and the second act the album 121 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: is out on Friday. Once again, congratulations on the Hall 122 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: of fame. 123 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: Thanks so much, guys, thank you. 124 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 3: Every introduction on that show will be Hall of Fame 125 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 3: and we'll say that. 126 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Thanks. Thanks, I have a good day.