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A third Sydney date has been added to the Australian Orchestra Tour:

Tim Minchin vs the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 26th March 2011
Sydney Opera House

Tickets go on sale Monday the 30th August at 9.00am.

Some behind the scenes insights at the July 2010 Workshops for Matilda, A Musical.

Workshop co-directors Lotte Wakeham and Ryan McBryde explain the workshop process and some of the challenges involved in semi-staging the production.

Christopher Nightingale the musical supervisor and orchestrator talks with Tim about job titles/roles, and preparing to perform the show for a small audience of children and adults. Naturally the conversation also brings in unicorns, rainbows and the precise meaning of exponential…

This video can also be viewed on the RSC Matilda, the Musical website along with further videos and lots of lovely information.

A third Melbourne date has been added to the Australian Orchestra Tour:

Tim Minchin vs Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 27th February 2011
The Palais Theatre

Tickets will go on sale 12th August 2010.

You know how a while ago, a cuddly, ginger-haired antipodean wrote this?

“There is a 99% chance there will be a show in Edinburgh in April 2011, we just haven’t managed to lock in the date.”

Well people of Edinburgh, you may now rejoice as the date has been locked in place to the 17th April 2011, to take place at the Edinburgh Playhouse.

Tickets are on sale now from Ticketmaster or on the phone at: 0844 847 1660

Tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning, at 9am, for a second ‘Tim Minchin vs The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’ show.

They will be available exclusively for the lucky prepared, pre-registered, pre-sale people for four days and then will go on sale to the general public on Monday. Use the same link and secret password you have in your mailing list email for the first Adelaide date.

The show will be at the same venue and time on Saturday the 12th of March 2011.

If you missed out this time – join the mailing list and be pre… (nope, I got nothing) special next time.

Good day to you all and hello and I hope you are well. Check this:

Starting in Melbourne in late February 2011, I’ll be grooving around my home country playing big-arsed stupid songs with large groups of the finest classical musicians in the land. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The WA Symphony Orchestra, The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Pops Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony have all agreed to risk their reputations by playing my songs. Scary.

I’m currently in the process of writing some new stuff especially for this project, and there’ll be plenty of orchestrated versions of my old stuff too.

I am excited and – frankly – honoured to be performing with these folk and I do hope you can come and witness it. It will be unlike anything you’ve seen before. Unless you’ve seen my shows before and you’ve seen a performance by an orchestra before, in which case it’ll be quite like a combination of two things you’ve seen before.

I’m also excited because the radio station of my youth (and beyond), Triple J , will be supporting the tour. Which is very nice of them.

Tickets go on sale to the public on August 2nd at 9am!

Dates and details:

Melbourne
Tim Minchin vs the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Friday 25th of Feb
Saturday 26th Feb
The Palais Theatre
Tickets

Perth
Tim Minchin Vs the West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Friday 4th March
Pioneer Women’s Memorial – Kings Park & Botanic Garden
Tickets

Adelaide
Tim Minchin vs The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Friday 11th March
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Tickets

Brisbane
Tim Minchin vs the Queensland Pops Orchestra
Friday 18th March
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Tickets

Sydney
Tim Minchin vs the Sydney Symphony
Thursday 24th March
Saturday 25th March
Sydney Opera House
Tickets

In October 2008 Tim worked with Animator Martin White to create this video for “If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife)” for the forthcoming series of ITV’s ‘Comedy Cuts’.
Director: Fergus March
Director of Photography: Tim Jordan
Producer: Rohan Acharya

Heroically, in the interests of art Tim sat naked* in a space craft and sang about proof, rationalism and his wife, giving rise to the alternate title for the piece: “I will give you my piano, one of my legs and [most of] my clothes”

The song was first recorded in 2006 for the album ‘So Rock’.

* Please note Tim was not actually naked in this video.

…he was wearing an underbust corset and the mystery is: What colour was it?…

At last, here are the new tour dates!

8 Dec 2010 BIRMINGHAM NIA – 0844 338 8000
11 Dec 2010 NEWCASTLE Arena – 0844 493 6666
13 Dec 2010BRIGHTON Centre – 0844 847 1515
14 Dec 2010 LONDON O2 – 0844 856 0202
16 Dec 2010 CARDIFF CIA – 0870 154 40 40
17 Dec 2010 MANCHESTER Arena – 0844 847 8000
18 Dec 2010 NOTTINGHAM Arena – 08444 124 624
18 Apr 2011 GLASGOW Clyde Auditorium – 0844 395 4000
19 Apr 2011 ABERDEEN Exhibition Centre – 08444 77 9000

Tickets go on sale 9am (BST) Friday 2nd July 2010 from:  www.ticketzone.co.uk www.ticketmaster.co.uk and www.seetickets.co.uk. In fact, from all major ticket outlets.

EDINBURGHERS: please note: There is a 99% chance there will be a show in Edinburgh in April 2011, we just haven’t managed to lock in the date. If you’re nervous about missing out, feel free to come to Glasgow!

AUSTRALIANS: hold your horses – dates for Feb/March tour will be announced soon.

IRELANDERS: no dates but I’d like to.

AMERICANS: no dates planned yet – sorrynessness.

CANADIANS: no dates but I’ll see you in a week or two to make amends.

ROW-IANS: um.

MARTIANS: I’ll be there in 2020.

I will performing with the amazing Heritage Orchestra, conducted by the brilliant Jules Buckley.

It is going to be the biggest, stupidest, rockingest live comedy gig ever in the whole universe. There’ll be songs you may have heard before being performed as you’ve never heard them. And there’ll be songs you’ve never heard before because they don’t exist yet: they’ll be brand spanking new and written for this project.

Do come. Yes, do.

As you can see, www.timminchin.com has had a midlife crisis and gone and got a brow lift and some buttock implants. And bought a custom Triumph and a video camera and is about to set off on a roadtrip through the Andes carrying nothing but a backpack full memories and an HTML tent. And is having an affair with this bit of totty: angry-feet.com. Disgusting.

But deep down, it’s the same old site. Have a poke around, see if you can’t talk some sense into it.

Wossy II

Innocent, or poised feline ready to spring?

I’m on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross again next week, BBC1 10.35pm, 2nd July. How very fun. Not sure what I’ll be doing – chatting to the big man about Matilda and my December tour, I imagine, maybe having a go on the piano, remember this malarkey:

and

"meow"

Also chatting to Wossy on that night are Robin Williams and Elle Macpherson. The Radio Times blurb is here.

Tour Dates Imminent

Some sneaky info about my very-soon-to-be-announced tour:

• There will be few dates but many tickets.
• There will be songs you know but not as you know them and there’ll be some new songs that are so new I ain’t writ em yet.
• The UK shows are mostly in December, the Australian shows more like Feb/March.
• The UK dates will be announced late next week, and tickets will be offered first via an email-out.
• So if you are not yet on me ol’ mailing list,  join it now here and you’ll get a day or two to buy tickets before the philistines who prefer spam-free inboxes to front rows.

Apology to the peoples of The United States of The Americas

I know, I know, you’ve heard it all before. But I want to again humbly apologise to you wondrous Americans for my failure to perform any US dates this year. I would get down on my knees, but I don’t want to get oil on my trousers. Huh. This musical I’m writing has rather overtaken my life, as have things like babies and radio shows and stuff. I am yet again trying to plan some choice dates in 2011, and am looking forward to apologising even more vociferously when they also fall through. And I apologise for using an ’s’ in the word apologise. But that’s just the way it goze.

Finally, at the risk of repeating myself, you can book for Matilda here, and Canadian dates here.

Tim is venturing to slightly warmer climes next month for a bit of a busman’s holiday.

He’s heading to both the Montreal and Toronto Just For Laughs festivals for all you lovely people in east Canada, and those in other parts of Canada and America who fancy travelling. Currently there are two appearances confirmed in Toronto and four in Montreal, details of which can be found on the gigs page. There may still be more added to these so keep your eyes on the aforementioned gig page and Facebook just in case.

Look after him for us, won’t you? Don’t want him being trampled by a stray moose now…

Edit: More Toronto shows announced and boy are you lucky ducks! On the 8th, 9th and 10th Tim will be doing a double headliner with none other than Bo Burnham! If you like your comedy musical, then you won’t want to miss this show!