Missy Higgins posted footage of her performance of ‘Finlandia’ with the Indigo Girls on September 20th in Troy, New York at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Watch it below.
Missy Higgins posted footage of her performance of ‘Finlandia’ with the Indigo Girls on September 20th in Troy, New York at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Watch it below.
Pop acts on television this week include:
Nick Lachey, who hosts ‘High School Musical: Get in the Picture’ (ABC) on Monday.
Missy Higgins, who performs on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ (NBC) on Thursday.
Lykke Li, who performs on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ (NBC) on Thursday.
Katy Perry, Jesse McCartney and Pussycat Dolls, who all perform on ‘Today’ (NBC) on Friday.
Midway through her current tour of North America, Missy Higgins will be stopping by Paltalk.com for an exclusive live 2-way video chat online at 6PM EST on Monday (August 4). Besides being able to chat live with the Australian singer songwriter, visitors can also connect with other Missy fans throughout the world. Check out details here.
Missy Higgins is out with the video to the U.S. version of her single ‘Steer’, off the Australian singer songwriter’s second album ‘On a Clear Night’, out now on Reprise Records. Watch it below.
Missy Higgins has teamed up with The Sierra Club on their 2% campaign. The initiative seeks to cut 80% of carbon emissions by 2050 or 2% a year. In a PSA for the Sierra Club, Missy said, “This is everyone’s responsibility. Governments, families, businesses, but we don’t need to do it all at once. If we just do a little bit, just 2% every year, what the Sierra Club calls the 2% solution, we can stop some of the most damaging effects of global warming.” Watch Missy’s global warming message below.
Missy Higgins has returned to the U.S. with her second album ‘On a Clear Night’, featuring her hit single ‘Where I Stood’. The album has already been certified triple platinum in Australia. Higgins spoke with The ShowBuzz about ‘Where I Stood’ getting good buzz in America, having more honest lyrics on her second CD, and not being ready to think about her third album yet. Watch the interview below.
Missy Higgins dropped by ‘mVids’ on the TV Guide Channel to talk with host Nikki Boyer about her new album ‘On A Clear Night’, how she got into singing growing up, how the songs on her second album are “much more mature” than her debut, her environmental activism, how she makes her tour carbon neutral, and more. Higgins then performed ‘Where I Stood’ and ‘Steer’.
Asked about how music came into her life, Missy said, “I guess with my brother, I was 7-years-old, he was in a band and they used to play around Melbourne where I’m from. I guess I grew up going to his gigs and listening to him. Eventually, when I was 13 or 14, he got me up on stage. I went to boarding school, so on the weekends I’d come up and sing with his band. It was just always in my family. My dad was a piano player too.”
On how the new album differs from her first, Missy said, “Well, my first album I wrote a lot of the songs when I was quite young. The first song on my first album I wrote when I was fifteen. It’s been quite a long time since the writing of those songs and the writing of this album, so I guess I feel like the songs on the album come from a much more mature and maybe slightly more stable head space. I feel like I’m more intricate and musical.”
Asked about if it’s difficult to listen to her older stuff, she said, “It is. It’s nice because I can get kind of transported to where I was when I wrote those songs. At the same time, you progress as a musician and you’re always trying to improve.”
Watch the interview and performances via YouTube below.
A trailer for Missy Higgins’ ‘Missy Takes The Wheel’ documentary has been posted at Warner Bros Records’ YouTube channel. The clip documents the Australian singer songwriter’s green tour of the U.S., hitting the road in a Toyota Prius, visiting green schools or laboratories. Higgins performed at the Australian Live Earth concert last summer. Watch it via MySpace below.
Missy Higgins took part in an online chat with fans at TeenHollywood.com on Tuesday (December 4). Asked if she’s really a Spice Girls fan after performing a cover of ’2 Become 1′ at a recent gig, the Australian singer songwriter responded, “Yes! I am a fan! Or used to be when I was a teenager, and I was given the greatest hits album from a radio station recently. Since being on tour, it’s the only CD we’ve had in the car, so let’s just say it fresh in my head!” The entire transcript at teenhollywood.com has since been removed.