About Kate Miller-Heidke
Early 2015 sees Kate Miller-Heidke release her 4th studio album, O Vertigo!, her first independent release. The album was funded entirely by the direct-to-fan platform PledgeMusic, with Kate smashing the records for quickest and most successful crowdfunding campaign by an Australian artist. Kate achieved her goal in only 3 days, and the campaign went on to reach over 215% of it’s original target.
Prior to this, Kate released 3 studio albums through Sony. Her 2012 album, Nightflight, debuted at #2 on the ARIA album charts and #1 on the iTunes album charts, while previous releases Little Eve and Curiouser achieved gold and double-platinum sales.
In 2009 Kate became the first Australian to win the grand prize in the International Songwriting Competition for ‘Caught In The Crowd’. ‘Last Day On Earth’ was the 3rd most-played song on Australian radio in 2009. In recent years Kate tour the US, UK, Asia and Europe extensively as well as performing over 100 shows with Ben Folds, appearing on his latest album “Lonely Avenue”, and supporting the newly-reformed Ben Folds Five in stadiums across America.
In 2012 she opened the Coachella Festival in California and on returning to Australia Kate performed a series of sold-out shows in churches, cathedrals and theatres around the country on her Heavenly Sounds tour. These intimate acoustic shows formed the basis the Heavenly Sounds Live album that all contributors to Kate’s PledgeMusic campaign received as a free bonus. She also toured India for the first time, performing in Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi.
Her electronic side project with collaborator/husband Keir Nuttall, Fatty Gets A Stylist, released their debut album in 2011 and made waves in the US after appearing in a commercial for the New York Lottery, the song received airplay on America’s largest radio station Z100. A new Fatty Gets A Stylist album is in the works for 2015.
If electronic and pop music weren’t keeping her busy enough, Kate recently performed several roles for the English National Opera. In 2013 she appeared on stage as a holographic projection in their original production “Sunken Garden”, while in 2012 she appeared in “The Death of Klinghoffer”, a role she will be performing again in 2014 for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Kate studied classical voice at the Queensland Conservatorium, and her previous opera roles include Flora in The Turn of the Screw and Baby Jane in Jerry Springer the Opera, at the Sydney Opera House. She is currently writing an opera for Opera Australia, set to debut next year.
DISCOGRAPHY:
2014 �” O Vertigo!
2013 �” Heavenly Sounds Live
2012 �” Nightflight
2011 �” Fatty Gets a Stylist
2009 �” Live At The Hi-Fi
2008 �” Curiouser
2007 �” Little Eve
2006 �” Circular Breathing EP
2004 �” Telegram EP
Kate Miller-Heidke
�“ O Vertigo! �“
I'm sick of turning it down / I’m sick of holding it in
I'm sick of tiptoeing 'round / Quietly bleeding
Now I've opened the lines / There's gonna be a transmission …
�“OFFER IT UP, Kate Miller-Heidke
New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones described her songs as “a big clutch of Pantone swatches”. American writer Neil Gaiman compared her voice to “being fucked by butterflies”. When people discuss Kate Miller-Heidke, the metaphors have to be big, in order to match that monumental voice. Following the big label successes of her gold record Little Eve (2007), platinum record Curiouser (2008) and ARIA/iTunes chart-breaker Nightflight (2012), Kate Miller-Heidke has gone independent with her fourth solo record, an album that playfully redefines the boundaries of pop music, while pushing her voice into uncharted vocal terrain. Be warned: at these altitudes, less-adventurous listeners may start to feel dizzy. There is a very good reason this album has been titled, O Vertigo!
From the towering pop of the title track (‘O Vertigo!’) to the arresting romantic ballads that made Kate Miller-Heidke a household name (‘Share Your Air’, ‘What Was I To You?’) and electrifying barnyard-stompers (‘Jimmy’, ‘Drama’), O Vertigo! represents Kate’s first independent release after seven years with Sony �” funded entirely by her fans in a record-breaking three days �” and features guest vocalists Passenger (‘Share Your Air’); Drapht (‘Drama’); and Megan Washington (‘Ghost’).
Recorded over a cold Melbourne spring with engineer/co-producer John Castle (Washington, Josh Pyke, The Drones, Cub Sport, The Bamboos, The Cat Empire), mixed by Cenzo Townshend (UK) and mastered by John Davis (UK), O Vertigo! represents everything long-time fans have been waiting for in a new Kate Miller-Heidke record, while scaling new and adventurous heights in songwriting. O Vertigo! is released 14 March (Australia) , and Kate Miller-Heidke will be touring O Vertigo! nationally in March and April. (Australia)
