Kate Miller-Heidke. The Kiss and the Abyss Album Launch Tour

TThursday 27 August; 7:30 pm
The Memo Healesville
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Join genre-defying singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke as she launches her new album and explores territory at once both ancient and new; Deconstructing our past, illuminating the present, and casting her eye towards our future, on her new gothic folk masterpiece, The Kiss and the Abyss.

On her new album, Kate Miller-Heidke returns to her musical roots, while pushing further into the unknown than ever before. A striking fusion of gothic folk, theatrical storytelling, cinematic soundscapes, and avant-garde textures, the new album finds one of Australia’s most singular voices at her most fearless, expansive and self-assured. Kate takes the folk music that was the first love of her songwriting youth, and refracts it through a darker, more experienced lens, to focus on the ills, and the hopes, of the modern world.

The Kiss and the Abyss is a meditation on the Internet age. Its distortions, seductions, and impact on our humanity.
Old-world instrumentation and mythological imagery collide with distinctly modern anxieties, creating a work that is both timeless and sharply of the moment, reflecting the emotional and ideological battlegrounds of contemporary life.

Join Kate Miller-Heidke, with longtime collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar, as she performs a wide selection of tracks from the album, and some for the first time, alongside the songs that have made her one of the most acclaimed and respected singers, songwriters, and creative forces in contemporary Australian music.

The Kiss and the Abyss  is out 14 August through EMI Music Australia.

 

Supporting Act - Xani Kolac

Xani has never seen much point in sticking to one genre. Singer/songwriter and electric violinist, Xani makes expansive, ecstatic music where art pop, folk, rock and jazz all happily coexist. It’s an approach that has led to an invitation to perform with John Cale on his Australian tour, to opening for Hania Rani, to earning an Australian Music Prize nomination for her 2025 rock album “Keep Moving”. The result is a live show that leaves audiences wondering how one person can make so much noise.

 

Schedule

7:00 pm - Doors Open
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm  Xani Kolac performance
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm Interval
8:20 pm - 9:50 pm Kate Miller-Heidke performance

 

 

 

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The Memo Healesville, 235 Maroondah Hwy, Healesville, 3777, View Map