Tim will be playing the opening night of the Summer Series at Somerset House, London, at 7.30pm on July 7th. He will performing with the fabulous Large Band, including the perpetually lovely Pete & Brad.
Tickets go on general sale on April 27th at 9am and are £27.50 – £52.50 (plus booking fee). They are available online via Ticketmaster or by phoning 0844 847 2461.
However, if you are especially keen, there is a presale starting at 9am on April 26th, with tickets available here.
You can find out more details and see who else is performing at the rest of the summer’s concert series on the Somerset House website.
Tim’s long-term evidence-free claim of being an “actor” is soon to be put to the test: he’s landed the role of “coked-up rockstar” Atticus Fetch in the sixth season of Showtime’s Californication.
The show revolves around David Duchovny’s character, writer Hank Moody, who will work with Fetch to write a musical based on one of his novels. Apart from the coke bit, it honestly shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for Tim. If you’re interested in spoilers, there are a few more plot details over at Playbill.
The series is set to air early next year in the US, and will most likely make its way over to the UK and Australia too. Once air dates are confirmed, we’ll let you know so that you can tune in to see Tim doing his acting thing!
We hear that – in true Californication style – his opening scene will involve quite a lot of Tim-flesh, so if that’s your thing…
Today, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have launched a new social networking platform, myShakespeare, for the London 2012 Festival, to mark the start of the World Shakespeare Festival (WSF), the biggest ever celebration of Shakespeare.
myShakespeare, which is supported by BP, is free to access and users can create their own unique searches, based on a particular moment in time, and share their personal data visualisations through Facebook and Twitter.
Tim says: “Saying Shakespeare was a good writer is like saying space is big… The Royal Shakespeare Company produced this festival to celebrate the incredibly diverse ways in which Will’s work still lives, and – most importantly – to encourage you guys to get in amongst it.”
Michael Boyd, RSC Artistic Director, says: “We hope that people will join [the] conversation, either by blogging or through Facebook and Twitter, and make myShakespeare their Shakespeare.”
Tim is the first to join the conversation, introducing the project in the video below in his own very special way. So whether Tim is the sun to you or you compare him to a summer’s day (he makes you sneeze?); whether you love to see him play the Fool or even if, for you, it is all about his Bottom… take a look at what he has to say about myShakespeare especially if you think the soul of the man is in his clothes…
Feel free to comment below on how you might “get in amongst it” and whether you find the end of the video a comedy or a tragedy…
It was quite an evening for Matilda The Musical at the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards! Matilda had received ten nominations and tonight skipped away with SEVEN awards, a record haul for a single show, including Best New Musical.
Rob Howells won Best Set Design and Simon Baker Best Sound Design. Best Director went to Matthew Warchus with Peter Darling claiming Best Theatre Choreographer. Members of the cast triumphed too with Best Actor in a Musical for Bertie Carvel and the four Matildas: Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Eleanor Worthington Cox & Sophia Kiely shared the award for Best Actress in a Musical, breaking the record for the youngest Olivier Award-holders.
To see the full list of ten nominations earned by Matilda the Musical, the maximum for which it was eligible, see this earlier blog post. The full list of award winners can be found here.
Many congratulations to Tim and everyone at Matilda The Musical for such an amazing achievement.
Tim will be taking his wild hair and snazzy dress sense to the inaugural Winchester Comedy Festival at the intimate and cosy Theatre Royal on Friday 5th October!
Tickets for Tim’s show will go on sale at 10am on the 17th April, but you’ll need to act quickly as the venue only holds about 400 people! There will be a limit of 6 tickets per transaction.
Other acts appearing at the festival, which runs from the 4th to the 7th October, include Jason Byrne, Stewart Francis and Isy Suttie. Full details and tickets can be found at the festival’s website.
This small independent music festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary and will take place from the 20th to 21st July, at Hill Farm, Steventon in Oxfordshire, with Tim and the band revving up, rocking out and shaking their flowing locks on the Friday evening.
Weekend tickets are on sale now from here and you can find out about the rest of the line up and further details from their website: www.truckfestival.com
Tim’s beguiling forelocks and naked toes will be gracing your screens for his third coming on Conan this Easter Monday!
On 9th April, Tim will be joining his fellow ginger, Conan, and appearing alongside Glee star, Cory Monteith, and Dodgers center fielder, Matt Kemp, on tbs at 11/10c.
Previous appearances on the show have had Tim performing Inflatable You and Prejudice, so perhaps this time he’ll be sitting down with Conan for a conversation as well as showcasing his lyrical trickery and musical masterstrokes!
If you’re in Canada, you can catch this on The Comedy Network at midnight on the 9th/10th April and if you’re in Australia, you can watch this on GEM at 11:30pm on 11th April.
The National Trust’s first ever outdoor comedy event ‘Trust In Comedy’ will feature Tim performing with a larger band than usual, including, as ever, the ruggedly handsome* Brad and Pete – we’ll announce more info on this as soon as we can. It takes place at the National Trust’s Belton House in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Friday 15th June at 8pm.
The setting will have a spectacular backdrop, with the stage set in front of the main house.
There is no assigned seating, so you should bring your own picnic rugs, blankets or chairs. There will be food and drink on sale but you can also create and take your own awesomely sophisticated picnics. (CHEESE! WINE!) However, there are strict rules and restrictions with regards to umbrellas, gazebos and BBQs etc so for further information about this please visit www.belton-proms.org.uk or telephone 01476 566116.
Tim will be helping to raise money for the anti-poverty charity War On Want, when he headlines their Comedy Gig on the 1st May at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London!
Also appearing on this amazing bill will be Shappi Khorsandi, Seann Walsh, Robin Ince, Kevin Eldon, Andi Osho, Hal Cruttenden, Frisky and Mannish and more.
War On Want will use proceeds from the night towards their work in fighting the root causes of global poverty. You can read more about the work they do on their website.
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is a relatively small venue, with roughly 1,000 seats, and tickets are already selling fast, so if you want to see Tim up close, be sure to grab yours from TicketWeb quickly!
Unfortunately, we have to announce that this year’s Sonisphere festival at Knebworth is cancelled. Below is a statement from the promoters.
It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012.
Putting the festival together in what is proving to be a very challenging year was more difficult than we anticipated and we have spent the last few months fighting hard to keep Sonisphere in the calendar.
Unfortunately circumstances have dictated that we would be unable to run the festival to a standard that both the artists and that Sonisphere’s audience would rightly expect.
We want to express our deepest regrets to the artists and to thank all the staff, suppliers and contractors who worked so hard with us to try and pull off what has proven to be an impossible task and we know how much they share in our disappointment. We also want to send a huge thanks to the Sonisphere fans who stuck by us and we are so sorry that we can’t fulfil what we set out to do.
Ticket holders will automatically receive a full refund direct from their ticket agents.
Tim will be rocking up, in some natty attire and with that hair of his, to do a 30 minute in-store performance at Amoeba Music in LA, on Tuesday, April 10th at 6pm. He’ll then hang around to do some signing.
You’ll need to purchase a copy of Ready For This?, Tim’s first US DVD/CD release, that night at Amoeba ($15.98) in order to participate in the signing but you’ll also get a free poster and you’ll be able to get one additional item signed, be it the poster, a canvas bag, a… banana or whatever takes your fancy.
This is likely to be a very popular event, especially as there’s no age limit, so it might be wise to get there a bit early to ensure a decent view.
Amoeba Music
6400 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 245-6400 www.amoeba.com
Tim will be appearing at this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival on the 13th June 2012 at 6.30pm. He’ll be talking with Robin Ince about bringing science and rationalism to his audiences via his musical, lyrical and satirical songs, followed by a short performance.
Tickets go on general sale on the 2nd April at 10.30am, but they’re already selling extremely quickly to festival members!
If you wish, you can find out about and sign up for the Cheltenham Festivals Membership here as that will allow you to book for this and other festival events, right now, before the public booking opens on Monday.
For further information on the show itself, Turning Science into Song, take a look here.
Tim will be joining the lovely and hilarious Richard Herring, as the first guest, in his new London run of Podcasts at the Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 7th May 2012.
Richard Herring, who recently held on to his Chortle Internet Award crown, will be bringing his extremely popular iTunes chart topping Edinburgh Fringe Podcast to London’s Leicester Square Theatre for eight shows May – June. Typically it involves topical humour, comedy chat, improvisation, prizes and more. So, if you fancy seeing Tim jousting* with a fellow comedy knight, fashion icon and facial hair aficionado head along to the podcast recording.
If you can’t make it to the show, due to pesky geography or something, you’ll be able to catch all the episodes on iTunes and the British Comedy Guide.
Tim has been announced on an astounding bill of comedians for Scope’s Big Comedy Night on 20th May 2012 at Hammersmith Apollo in London!
Tim will be joining Richard Herring, Al Murray, Francesca Martinez, Doc Brown, Hal Cruttenden, Milton Jones and more for a night of japes in aid of the charity, Scope.
The idea of holding a comedy event in support of disabled people came from disability rights campaigner Nicky Clark, who worked with fellow Scope supporters Richard Herring and Francesca Martinez to help the charity secure the line-up.
The event will raise funds for Scope’s work to support disabled people and their families to have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Matilda the Musical has earned itself a whopping ten nominations for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards, which is the maximum for which it was eligible, including Best New Musical!
The four young actresses playing Matilda – Sophia Kiely, Eleanor Worthington Cox, Kerry Ingram and Cleo Demetriou – are up jointly for Best Actress in a Musical, while Bertie Carvel and Paul Kaye are up for Best Actor in a Musical and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, respectively.
Other nominations go to Matthew Warchus for Best Director, Rob Howells for Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, Hugh Vanstone for Best Lighting Design, Peter Darling for Best Theatre Choreographer and Simon Baker for Best Sound Design.
The Olivier Awards are the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards, recognising excellence in professional theatre in London shows. They’re often considered to be the theatre industry equivalent of the BAFTA Awards or the UK equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards.
The awards will be handed out on the 15th April, at the Royal Opera House. The ceremony will be broadcasted live on BBC Radio 2 and on the BBC Red Button services – who knows, you might even see a nattily dressed Tim (on the TV, not the radio)!
You can view a full list of all the awards and nominees on the Olivier Awards website here.
Huge congratulations to Tim and everyone at Matilda the Musical on this phenomenal news!
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