KATE MILLER-HEIDKE ANNOUNCES INTIMATE BRISBANE SHOW IN NOVEMBER
Kate Miller-Heidke is thrilled to announce her return to her hometown of Brisbane, and her first live gig in what seems like several very long decades.
"BRISBANE, it doesn't quite seem real but I'm heading home to play for you live, in person, in November. These will be intimate stripped-back shows with a loose format. Requests encouraged. Come. Heckle. New songs, old songs, maybe a cover or two. Is it too early for Christmas songs? Does anyone have tips on how to survive two weeks' hotel quarantine with a four-year-old? Can't wait to see you. xx"
The show goes on sale Thursday 29 October – one day before the release of her fifth studio album Child In Reverse, out 30 October through EMI Music Australia.
Produced and recorded in Melbourne by Evan Klar, Child In Reverse is 11 songs sculpted into 3- to 4-minute shots of love and fear, memory and empathy, rage and redemption. It's an album of airborne melodies, sinuous grooves, brilliant textures and, as always, a little more gravity than her feather-light voice implies.
"I keep getting drawn back to pop music," Kate says, despite recent triumphs in opera (The Rabbits), musical theatre (Muriel's Wedding) and screen (The Divorce). "The minimalism, the economy… I find that incredibly rewarding and challenging. It's like a quest to nail the perfect pop song. When it can be done, for me, as a listener, it's my favourite music."
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Valley Fiesta presents:
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE
Live and Intimate
Fortitude Music Hall, Friday 20 November
Tickets at https://tix.to/KMH
Child In Reverse is out on October 30
TRACKLISTING
Deluded
Simpatico (feat. Mallrat)
Born Lucky
Twelve Year Old Me
You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore
Little Roots, Little Shoots
Hectic Glitter
People Pleaser
A Quiet Voice
Child of Divorce
This Is Not Forever
ABOUT KATE-MILLER-HEIDKE
Kate Miller-Heidke is an award-winning singer-songwriter who traverses the worlds of contemporary pop, folk, musical theatre and opera.
She has released four studio albums including the top 5 albums O Vertigo!, Nightflight, and Curiouser, which reached double platinum sales and featured the multi-platinum hits ‘The Last Day On Earth’ and ‘Caught In The Crowd’.
Her work has been nominated for ARIAs in categories as diverse as Best Pop Release, Best Adult Contemporary Album, Best Classical Album, Best Cast Recording, Best Comedy Release and Best Australian Live Act.
Trained as a classical singer at the Queensland Conservatorium, Kate has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and several roles for the English National Opera. Her debut opera as a composer, The Rabbits, won 4 Helpmann Awards including Best Score and Best New Australian Work.
With her collaborator Keir Nuttall, she has written the music and lyrics to Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical, which premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company and played throughout 2019 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It won five Helpmann Awards, including Best Original Score.
After competing at ‘Eurovision - Australia Decides’ on the Gold Coast in February, Kate was unanimously chosen by both the jury and public votes to become Australia’s representative at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Kate’s heartfelt performance and the out-of-this world staging of her original song ‘Zero Gravity’ won her first place in her semi-final and a top ten placing at the Eurovision Grand Final in May 2019