Kate Miller-Heidke

Join genre-defying singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke as she launches her new album, and explores territory that is at once ancient and new – deconstructing our past, illuminating the present, and casting her eye towards our future – with 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 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 body of work that feels both timeless and sharply of the moment, reflecting the emotional and ideological battlegrounds of contemporary life. Filled with intricate vocals, rich folk textures, and expansive, cinematic soundscapes, it is a work that feels both grounded and otherworldly.

Join Kate Miller-Heidke, with longtime collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar, as she performs a wide selection of tracks from the album – 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.

Singer/songwriter and electric violinist Xani Kolac is opening for this tour. Xani has never seen much point in sticking to one genre – she 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.

‘Xani Kolac seems to have no problem at all using technology to achieve the highest artistic ends, while also delivering the gold standard of music-making, namely the ability to move her listeners, to transport them. She is truly exciting, engaging and inspiring.’ – Paul Grabowsky

Kate Miller-Heidke | Vocals / Keys
Keir Nuttall | Guitar
Xani Kolac | Violin

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