By sheer coincidence my sister and I will be in New York City the day that Kate is playing there. We miss her in Chicago by two days and we are so excited that we will get to see her in Manhattan. Does anyone know if she is doing signings and photos post-show in the USA? We would love to say hi to her.

Jel. Ous.

If they allow cameras I will definitely try to record some of the gig on video to share.

Awesome! I look forward to checking them out.

Thanks Brambles, I would love to see Kate in New York, it is one of my favourite places in the world.

I wonder if Kate has considered singing 'American Idol'.

Not sure a lot of them would get it?

With a bit of tweaking it would work.

Oh, Ben Folds audiences would've eaten "American Idol" right up...especially the "so Kara, Ryan, Randy and Simon...shove it up your ass (not arse) shove it up, shove it up shove it up..." part. I am leaving out Ellen because she's kind of...sacred. And so's her ass (arse).

Ellen can do no wrong.

Does Kate read these threads?

Kate if you're reading this please help.... I'm going to be in NYC another night which means my cousin, my son & I would be able to catch your show @ Le Poisson Rouge!

EXCEPT....

I just read that it's an 18+ show and my son is 17 1/2 yrs old. Not sure how Le PR is or how things are in the East Village but if he's going to the show with me do you think they'd be okay with this one exception? He's obviously not drinking (nor am I) but we're so close & after seeing you in LA & Chicago I'd hate to not be able to see you b/c of a technicality. ESPECIALLY since I've been selling you & Keir quite passionately to my cousin, a musician himself who's in NY for the summer months.

Please let me know if this is at all possible. I'll try to swing by there tonight but we won't really be in that part of Manhattan till much later. Anyway take care & good luck if I don't get to see ya!

Chill that is interesting that the venue is 18+.

I thought that NY was a 21+ state for alcohol, they started increasing the age from 18 in 1982(strangely the year after I spent my last summer there!!!)

So I am not sure what the difference would be between an 18+ a 17 and a half.

Fingers crossed he gets in.

Drinking age is 21 throughout the USA, but some clubs go 18+ for their shows. Le Poisson Rouge does both. The 21+ nights assume everyone inside is of drinking age so obviously if my kid was 20 in a similar situation I'd have no chance of getting him in. No one wants to risk losing their liquor license, least of all a lot little club in the heart of West Village. There's a window of opportunity with 18+ since getting in doesn't mean getting alcohol.

SO.... I went to the club last night (where by the way Laurie Anderson happened to be headlining, to give you an indication of the caliber of talent at the tiny venue) and spoke with the right people there. They said as long as I'm the parent/guardian they'll let him come in. So I'm taking my son & my nephew (who looks way too much like Keir) to the Village to see KMH tonight. Woo hoo!

Hollywood... Chicago... New York... it's official, I'm Kate's North American groupie!

We should call you Chill W, I think

From Concert Log blogspot...



From Concert Log Blogspot

Interesting pic with a Nova logo on it. ???

Still looking for a site where the concert is posted so I can rip it.

- Roger

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That pic must've been from when Can't Shake It first came out, I think. Nova used it for some of ads.

The show was fabulous last night! I recorded the whole thing on my camera, but we were standing at the back of the venue because the place was packed when we arrived at 7:30pm. It was a small venue so we had a good view though. The sound quality isn't fantastic because we were standing next to a fan, so that affected the sound a bit, but it's still pretty listenable. I'm happy to upload a sample of the set in mp3 if people are interested. Kate and Keir were in fabulous form and Kate was quite chatty as usual. She mentioned it was the last night of the tour and it was lovely to end it in NYC.

The audience was pretty responsive and there was a lot of cheering after each song. I think that "Psycho Killer" and the Facebook song got the biggest responses, but there was quite a bit of laughter at certain parts in "Dreams" and "God's Gift To Women." I noticed that she was enunciating her words carefully so that the audience could hear the lyrics. Having just visited Ground Zero the previous day, I was quite teary hearing "The Last Day on Earth". The performance was beautiful.

Quite a lot of people were buying cds after the show, I overheard a couple of comments ranging from "She can REALLY sing!" to "That was the best show I have seen in ages!" There was a line of people waiting for photos with her afterwards too. We had a quick chat and said hello, told her that we were from Australia and it was our last night in NYC and that the show was beautiful. She thanked us and mentioned that she's had really lovely audiences all over the US, people have really been responding to the music. She also said that Le Poisson Rogue was a really nice room to play in. I'm so happy things are so well for her over here, but I really hope that she can come home for a bit and do some shows towards the end of the year.

Here are our pics with Kate:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yes_anastasia/4795430214/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yes_anastasia/4794796157/

Sounds good! Very jealous.

Wow, thats fantastic.
So good to hear people are loving her to bits!

Thanks for that Brambles!

Liam, I too am soooo jealous!

I'd say we're all jealous, really.

From The Star Ledger

" NEW YORK — Even pop-savvy Americans don’t know much about her. They ought to get wise.

In her native Australia, Kate Miller-Heidke is a star — the rare celebrity worth celebrating. She’d already established herself as one of Brisbane’s favorite performers — one who ditched a career in opera to apply her vocal talents to her quirky, personal songs — when “The Last Day on Earth,” her latest single, topped the charts Down Under. Emboldened by that success, she decided to try her luck in the States.

Wednesday’s show at the intimate Le Poisson Rouge was the last of a 20-date American swing. Soon she’ll be heading back to Queensland, where she’ll play at houses considerably bigger than this one. The room was crammed: fans, curiosity-seekers and Australiaphiles gathered to laugh at her jokes, marvel at her acrobatic vocals, and cheer her frequent departures from pop convention. In her Aussie accent, the engaging Miller-Heidke thanked the audience for the warm reception.

Let’s hope she was sincere, and that she’ll hurry back soon. American pop desperately needs personalities as offbeat as hers.

Miller-Heidke incorporates opera techniques into her performances, but not always in the manner that audiences might expect. On the plain-spoken “Politics in Space,” she ended each chorus with a sudden operatic flourish. “Dreams” featured a high-held note that would have been the envy of the sopranos at the Met — until she began to inhale rather than exhale, producing a sound not unlike that of a deflating balloon. Late in the set, she sang “Psycho Killer” in full-blown operatic style, reclaiming some of the drama and horror that overexposure has driven out of the Talking Heads classic.

The crowd didn’t always know how to receive these irruptions. Was this parody, tribute, psychotic bravery or something else?

Miller-Heidke, who sparkles with mischievous intelligence, probably just wanted to keep listeners on their toes. She can coax a remarkable range of sounds out of her throat: On “Words,” she slid rapidly between notes with the electronic precision of a Moog synthesizer. The tracks on “Curiouser,” her sophomore album, are awash in tics, hiccups, vertiginous swoops and vocal tones that dissolve into the mixes like sugar stirred into a cup of coffee. Onstage, she even broke out a devil’s voice.

But it would be wrong to imply that Miller-Heidke favors sound over substance. She’s a storyteller at heart, frequently humorous and reliably insightful. She can also be talky: “Caught in the Crowd,” an apology to a bullied classmate who the narrator didn’t have the pluck to stand up for, is as conversational as Mike Skinner’s half-sung work with the Streets. She saves her ornamentation for the margins; when she’s got a gag to deliver, she usually does so in a voice that’s sweet, polite and slightly guarded.

“If you’re God’s gift to women,” she sang to an unctuous suitor on Wednesday, “then God got it wrong, yes, She got it wrong.” (The audience roared.)

Occasionally, Miller-Heidke’s sense of humor runs away with her. Her songs about Facebook and “Australian Idol” are more Tom Lehrer than Cyndi Lauper; from time to time, the show dipped dangerously toward cabaret. She is saved from the novelty bin by guitarist and principal collaborator Keir Nuttall, who blows away any such concerns through the sheer force of his talent. Nuttall is an outstanding acoustic guitar player, able to switch gracefully between heavy power chords, fast riffing and soft, insistent bass-string patterns. The guitarist — who, unsurprisingly, also plays in a Brisbane-based prog-rock band — can get extremely quiet and still carry the backbeat without a percussionist’s assistance.

Nuttall layered “Curiouser” with springy electric guitar and all the burbling and whirring synthesizers he could get his hands on. But at Le Poisson Rouge, Miller-Heidke and Nuttall appeared as a duo. Songs that, on the album, are saturated with instruments and backing vocals were, in concert, stripped to bare essentials: voice, acoustic, occasional piano and a bit of tambourine. “Can’t Shake It,” a dance song about the singer’s inability to dance, was transformed from a pounding piece of neo-new-wave to a spare, sinister art-folk stunner. It was the high point of an arresting concert — one notable for its bravery as well as its musical excellence."

I liked the bit where they say that she is returning to Queensland to do some shows!!

Haha me tooooo!!

Yeahhh!!

I read my very first negative article about kmh the other day. But we shall not discuss it here. We all know it's bull!

She's amazing!

Oh, go on. We take the good with the bad here.

Article titled "A Lack of Soul"

http://www.letterfromnewyork.com/2010/07/l...of-12-year.html

You can't be EVERYONE'S cup of tea

Hahaha, wow.

Douchey Aussie who thinks he can pass judgement on music because he lives in New York.

I agree, but some of what was written was quite harsh, espesh in the comment section of that article.

Oh, didn't read the comments.

Ooo read the comments.

I love reading comments on articles to see how the public respond.

Ehhh

Yeah, why read negativity. Good boy Liam.

@ toomanybrambles.... you walked into LPR the same time we got there! it was also our last night in NYC as well. were you as stunned as i was that it was a cabaret setting with tables & dinner etc? her other shows were all SRO. the place was already packed & we were likely the last ones into the place (by the way Kate's show was SOLD OUT and they were turning people away at the door!) if you saw a guy with his 17-year-old son in the back of the theater that was us. actually we moved to the left side of the stage & had a spectacular view. i'll try to post some of my pics when i get a minute to breathe. great pics on your flickr site by the way! take care.

Ooh, it's been a while since I've seen her cabaret style.

That's just it, she's hardly cabaret. So there was a tinge of awkwardness to it all (hence the opinion of that critical review that said her act just didn't compare to Sinatra's... like any act could ever!). But talented people like Kate & Keir can pull any venue off. And they won over the Greenwich Village heroin chic eleganzia on that night.

Cabaret seating was all she ever played here for the first few years, more or less.

Don't pretend you were there from the start

Mate.

It first came out, I think. Nova used it for some of ads.

That's a fan right there

What are we even talking about?