Higgins talks crazed fans, rock climbing
Joli Ienuso
Issue date: 3/6/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
On March 5, Missy Higgins kept the crowd anxiously waiting for the start of her performance at the Theater of Living Arts. She dazzled the audience with her 18-song set and her playful, yet modest personality shown at it's finest. Higgins is an Australian musician who began her still blossoming career with the release of her first EP in 2003. She is one of those rare artists who sounds better live than on a recorded album - Higgins pours her soul into her performance and it makes all the difference.
During the performance, she told a story about her day off walking around Philadelphia and how she spent a significant amount of time with a homeless man, watching the river. Higgins explained the experience as one of those moments where she is reminded that everything is always changing. Higgins has a way of making the audience members feel more like a close friend of hers, sharing in her heartbreak and love, making each other feel less alone.
Prior to the performance, The Triangle had the chance to speak to Higgins about life, fans and rock climbing.
The Triangle: A lot of your songs are about heartache. Does the writing process help you overcome that kind of emotion?
Missy Higgins: Yeah, definitely. It's a very therapeutic thing for me. I guess it's my interpretation of being an artist but it's definitely easier to tap into the creative side when you're feeling vulnerable or fragile or devastated; any of those emotions that are on the opposite side of the spectrum of happy. It's definitely something I'm glad to have as a means of expressing myself.
TT: Have you ever had an encounter with a crazed fan?
MH: I have encounters with weird people all the time, but I don't know if you'd called them crazed fans. They are all really lovely people - they just, sometimes I come across people who have a funny look in their eye and they come a little bit too close to me and I feel a little bit strange. But in the end, I haven't had anyone that's really made me scared or anything like that. All and all, I think my fans are really, really lovely people.
During the performance, she told a story about her day off walking around Philadelphia and how she spent a significant amount of time with a homeless man, watching the river. Higgins explained the experience as one of those moments where she is reminded that everything is always changing. Higgins has a way of making the audience members feel more like a close friend of hers, sharing in her heartbreak and love, making each other feel less alone.
Prior to the performance, The Triangle had the chance to speak to Higgins about life, fans and rock climbing.
The Triangle: A lot of your songs are about heartache. Does the writing process help you overcome that kind of emotion?
Missy Higgins: Yeah, definitely. It's a very therapeutic thing for me. I guess it's my interpretation of being an artist but it's definitely easier to tap into the creative side when you're feeling vulnerable or fragile or devastated; any of those emotions that are on the opposite side of the spectrum of happy. It's definitely something I'm glad to have as a means of expressing myself.
TT: Have you ever had an encounter with a crazed fan?
MH: I have encounters with weird people all the time, but I don't know if you'd called them crazed fans. They are all really lovely people - they just, sometimes I come across people who have a funny look in their eye and they come a little bit too close to me and I feel a little bit strange. But in the end, I haven't had anyone that's really made me scared or anything like that. All and all, I think my fans are really, really lovely people.
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