Missy Higgins on her new album The Second Act [Video]

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″When you’re young you have this image of your life / That you’ll be scrupulous and one day even make a wife”– The Special Two (2004)

“Oh my god, I haven’t had enough sleep.” Missy Higgins is in her kitchen, trying to make me a coffee. She moves gingerly, like you do when you’ve had too much tequila the night before. Which she did. This is unusual for the singer-songwriter, who isn’t much of a drinker. But her tour manager purchased a bottle of the Mexican spirit to celebrate what felt like a particularly special show at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre. “I really felt the energy of the audience last night, I felt they were with me.” Everyone came offstage on a real high, she says. …