
Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins to Lead Stacked Red Hot Summer 2026 Lineup
Popular Australian festival the Red Hot Summer Tour will return in 2026 with one of its biggest lineups yet
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"I hope that we can work with each other for many, many decades to come," Higgins said of her longtime manager
Some of Australia's favourite musicians turned out for a event in Melbourne this week to send a message to politicians.
The young singer-songwriter just starting out won’t be as fortunate as me,” she explained. "We have to keep demanding local content here."
Higgins joins the likes of AC/DC, Nick Cave, and The Bee Gees in the ARIA Hall of Fame
"I didn't have it in my sights as a goal," Missy Higgins tells RS. "Maybe once I'm an old lady and my career is winding down."
Higgins becomes only the seventh Australian artist in history to have No. 1 albums in at least three consecutive decades.
"I was in such a tricky place, I was going through a real reckoning,” Higgins recounts. “I was having a real existential crisis."
To celebrate, Higgins has dropped a vibrant new music video for ‘Craters’ and is offering exclusive tour merch online for just 72 hours