News November 10, 2021

Missy Higgins, Alex Lahey & Isabella Manfredi to play The Sound

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Missy Higgins, Alex Lahey and former Preatures frontwoman Isabella Manfredi are set to perform on the forthcoming episode of The Sound.

Airing this Sunday at 5:30pm on ABC TV and ABC iView, Higgins leads the episode’s lineup with a performance of her new single ‘Edge Of Something’ filmed at Mornington Peninsula’s Peninsula Hot Springs.

Lahey, Manfredi and Fergus James will all be performing their recent singles, while the show’s ‘Tribute’ segment will be paying homage to Gotye and Kimbra’s classic ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, which turned 10 this year.

Performing the tribute will be Mansionair’s Jack Froggatt and merci, mercy, who recently announced international partnerships with Capitol and EMI.

The Sound’s third season premiered last week, making it the first season to air since the passing of its founder, Mushroom Group’s Michael Gudinski.

Artist programmer, Susan Heymann, told The Music Network about the struggles of getting Australian music on television, and how this season of The Sound wants to focus more on it.

“We’re just going to be focused on the performances and on the talent,” she said of this season.

“We haven’t got the news segment. We haven’t got the new music segment with that shorter duration. We just wanted to maximise the number of performances we could include in that 28-minute episode.”

She also noted that despite Australia’s changing circumstances, the show remains relevant and important.

“I think this was really important for us during the peak of the pandemic last year, and it gave artists an opportunity to promote new music and to give work to their crews and have a connection with their fans.

“But I think now as things are opening up and borders are opening up and international artists are going to start coming back into Australia, it’s giving us an opportunity to keep celebrating Australian talent – and aligning that with Ausmusic Month and crossing over with ARIA Week, it just gives us a chance to keep focus on home-grown talent.”