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You can finally get your hands on the official Groundhog Day Sheet Music for Piano, Vocal and Guitar!

All of your favourite songs from Tim’s award winning musical Groundhog Day can be downloaded here and played to your heart’s content.

Ready for a wild road trip across the Australian outback with Tim’s brand new comedy drama UPRIGHT?

Update: UPRIGHT Season Two is out now – details and where to watch BOTH seasons here.

Already available in:

UK: Sky Atlantic and NOW TV (from Thursday 28th November, 2019)
Now available on DVD and digital platforms in the UK too – see below.
Australia: FOXTEL (from Sunday 1st December, 2019), BINGE (from Saturday 26th December 2020)
Now available on DVD and digital platforms in Australia too – see below.
Canada: Super Channel Fuse – now ended. (from Sunday 19th January 2020 until December 2021).
Canada can now stream UPRIGHT for free on CBC Gem. (from Jan 2021)
Russia: Fox Russia (from Tuesday 3rd March 2020).
Belgium: Telenet – now ended (from Wednesday July 1st 2020).
US: Sundance Now (from Thursday 6th August 2020).
(Join Sundance Now with the promo code ‘UPRIGHT’ for a 30-day-free-trial).
Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Universal TV (from Tuesday 11th August 2020).
Spain: Sundance TV (from Monday 7th September 2020).
Netherlands: Ziggo TV – now ended. (from Thursday 10th September 2020).
New Zealand : TVNZ (from Friday 18th September 2020).
Lithuania: Telia Play (from Wednesday 23rd December 2020)
South Korea: Wavve (from Wednesday 10th February 2021)
Latvia: TET+ (from Thursday 1st April 2021)
Germany – WDR (Free TV) ARD Channel One – now ended. (from Tuesday 15th June 2021).

This list is not exhaustive. It’s worth searching for UPRIGHT on streaming services in your country.

Available on DVD in:
Australia
UK

Available on digital platforms in:
Australia
UK

Co-written and starring Tim, UPRIGHT follows two misfits thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, who forge the unlikeliest of bonds in their quest to get a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.

Tim: “Making Upright was a complete joy and a massive privilege. After living overseas for more than a decade, I couldn’t have hoped to come home to a more fun and inspiring project: an original Australian outback adventure story, full of heart and laughter, made by some of most talented and dedicated creatives in the country. It’s a unique but universal story about family, resilience, music, forgiveness, and learning how to find a moment to breath out. And it’s full of silliness, action, and wonderful performances, and will make you want to go to the beach and/or ring your mum”.

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UPDATE (14/03/20): Shows in Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane have had to be postponed.
Rescheduled dates in January and February 2021 here.

Hey Australia! Earlier this year Tim’s long-awaited national tour BACK sold out in record time, received rave audience reviews and won the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert.

In March 2020, Tim’s going back on tour with encore performances of BACK. He’ll make two new stops in Hobart and Newcastle and return to Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

So, if you missed out last time or want to go back-to-BACK, here’s your chance.

As in 2019, all profits from the Premium priced tickets, available for each show, will be donated to a local charity of Tim’s choice.

Tim: “We’re not sure yet where our charity dollars are going to go on this leg of the tour, but are looking at spreading some love in the direction of some of the independent theatres I feel passionate about”.

Tim Minchin – BACK – Australia 2020

PERTH Crown Theatre – Friday 6th March – SOLD OUT
PERTH Crown Theatre – Saturday 7th March – SOLD OUT
HOBART Wrest Point Entertainment Centre – Thursday 12th March
HOBART Wrest Point Entertainment Centre – Friday 13th March
HOBART Wrest Point Entertainment Centre – Sat 14th March – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY Enmore Theatre – Tue 17th March – POSTPONED
SYDNEY Enmore Theatre – Wed 18th March – POSTPONED
SYDNEY Enmore Theatre – Thursday 19th March – POSTPONED
SYDNEY Enmore Theatre – Friday 20th March – POSTPONED
SYDNEY Enmore Theatre – Saturday 21st March – POSTPONED
NEWCASTLE Civic Theatre – Monday 23rd March – POSTPONED
NEWCASTLE Civic Theatre – Tuesday 24th March – POSTPONED
MELBOURNE Hamer Hall – Thursday 26th March – POSTPONED
MELBOURNE Hamer Hall – Friday 27th March – POSTPONED
MELBOURNE Hamer Hall – Saturday 28th March – POSTPONED
BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall – Tuesday 31st March – POSTPONED
BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall – Wednesday 1st April – POSTPONED
BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall – Thursday 2nd April – POSTPONED
BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall – Friday 3rd April – POSTPONED

Onsale times are local unless otherwise stated.

The use of strong language, strobe lights and loud music occurs throughout the show. Parental discretion is advised for children under 16 years of age.

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Tim won the AWGIE for Comedy – Situation or Narrative for ‘Day Eight’ of his upcoming series UPRIGHT. The Australian Writers’ Guild held their 52nd Annual AWGIE Awards ceremony last night at the City Recital Hall in Sydney.

Tim stars in, co-produced, wrote the music and co-wrote the script for the eight-part series. You can read more about UPRIGHT and the stellar team behind it along with some of Tim’s thoughts on it here.

The prestigious AWGIE Awards celebrate the very best in Australian stage and screen writing, recognising and rewarding the outstanding achievements of Australian storytellers and their contribution to Australia’s cultural landscape. They are the only industry awards given by fellow writers to writers judged exclusively on the basis of the writer’s own vision, the written script.

We’ll be announcing when and where you can watch the series soon.

If you missed out or have tickets to spare for the BACK UK tour, Tim has appointed Twickets as his official ticket resale partner in the UK.

Twickets is a ticket marketplace that enables fans to trade tickets at FACE VALUE. It protects its users with a guarantee against fraud and overpricing and offers an alternative to the exploitative secondary ticketing platforms and ticket touts that Tim is keen for his fans to avoid. More details and you can download the App here.

Note: It’s always worth trying the venues first, in case they have any stray tickets, although they may just be individual seats dotted around. Keep an eye on your local venue social media accounts too.

Tim’s new landmark series UPRIGHT has received two AWGIE Award Nominations in the COMEDY – SITUATION OR NARRATIVE category. One for ‘Day Eight’ written by Tim and the other for ‘Day Six’ by Leon Ford.

The prestigious AWGIE Awards celebrate the very best in Australian stage and screen writing, recognising and rewarding the outstanding achievements of Australian storytellers and their contribution to Australia’s cultural landscape. They are the only industry awards given by fellow writers to writers judged exclusively on the basis of the writer’s own vision, the written script.

Tim stars in, co-produced, wrote the music and co-wrote the script for the eight-part series. You can read more about UPRIGHT and the stellar team behind it along with some of Tim’s thoughts on it here.

We’ll announce when and where you can watch the series soon.

The Australian Writers’ Guild will present the 52nd annual AWGIE Awards on Thursday August 22nd at the City Recital Hall, Sydney. The full list of nominees can be found here.

Tim has won the prestigious 2019 Helpmann Award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert for BACK.

He was unable to attend the ceremony because he’s on a family holiday in Western Australia so he sent his thanks via this video:

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Last week, the nominees for the prestigious 2019 Helpmann Awards were announced with BACK nominated for Best Australian Contemporary Concert.

The winners will be announced at a red carpet event on Monday 15th July at the Arts Centre Melbourne.

Tim toured BACK, in Australia and New Zealand, earlier this year and the UK tour kicks off in October. All UK dates have now SOLD OUT so if you have no luck looking for stray tickets at the venues (or if you have any to sell) please try Twickets Tim’s only official ticket resale partner in the UK.

In February, Tim announced this year’s competition for the Yamaha Great Start Grant, with the prize including 34 brand new Yamaha instruments, specialist training to help to get a school band program going, AND an in-school concert with Tim.

Ravenshoe State School in Tablelands, Queensland, Australia won the grant and yesterday Tim rocked up to the school to present the prize and perform for them.

Tim: “It was really gorgeous! I chatted about why music is important and fun, and I played:
Not Perfect
F Sharp
Naughty
Carry You.”

Ravenshoe are excited to now be able to get a band started and to develop the music program at the school.
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It’s taken me 4 weeks to figure out whether to tell this sad story, but I think I should because I think some of you may want to help out.

My Australian tour finished a month ago. After 12 weeks of working together, we landed in Sydney, struggled past the assholes standing too close to the carousel to gather our bags and instruments, and hugged each other goodbye.

There were 18 of us in the tour party, and I think we all agreed it had been one of the best tours we’d worked on; beautiful theatres, wonderful audiences, no big issues or illnesses, and an amazing team of people utterly dedicated to the pursuit of silliness and excellence.

The last person I said farewell to was the person to whom we all owed the biggest debt: Greg Weaver, tour manager and sound engineer extraordinaire. He handed me my guitar and we agreed we’d talk the following day to dig into planning the UK tour. He pointed me to my driver, gave me a brief and perfectly unsentimental hug… and that was that. Five hours later I was calling my bandmates to tell them that our Greg had died of a heart attack just a couple of hours after delivering us all home. No warnings, no prior problems… just one of those things.

It is hard to explain the genius of Greg. He was a quiet, extremely hard-working, deeply ironic, funny, unique, talented man. I’d only known him for 4 years, but I’ve been hugely saddened by his sudden passing, and I’m furious that I will no longer benefit from his brilliance!

And I’m a new-comer! He was Sound-God and Tour-Guru to some of Australia’s greatest artists. Paul Kelly and his mob have been working with Greg for 20 years. The Whitlams for almost as long. Sarah Blasko, Phil Jamieson, Boy and Bear, The Clouds and many others. We’re all shattered.

Many, many people commented that our “Back” tour sounded as good as any concert they’ve ever been to. The excellent quality was because Greg Weaver was obsessively, unrelentingly dedicated to his craft. We would soundcheck for over an hour every night, and he would wander around the theatre sitting in dozens of seats to make sure the mix was sounding good. He loved his work, and cared deeply about words and music. The last song he mixed was Carry You (for those who’ve seen it).

If you enjoyed our tour and would like to pay a small tribute to the unsung hero of “Back”, I wonder if you’d drop a few dollars to help out his fantastic wife and boy here: https://supportact.org.au/greg-weaver-appeal/. They need us.

Farewell to the Dream Weaver. This post does no justice to you.

Tim will be featuring in an episode of Anh’s Brush With Fame on ABC TV on 1st May.

The series will screen on Wednesdays at 8pm starting on 17th April on the ABC and ABC iview. (The episodes will be repeated the following Sunday at 5:30pm).

In each episode comedian, author and two-time Archibald Prize winning artist Anh Do paints a portrait of his sitters, whilst he talks to them in-depth about their life and work, as he decides how he’ll depict them. Along with Tim, this fourth series includes: Michael Clarke, Lindy Chamberlain Creighton, Leah Purcell, Walter Mikac, Dannii Minogue, Alan Jones, Saroo Brierley, Deborah Hutton, Georgie Parker, Gordian Fulde, Kylie Kwong, David Wenham and Archie Roach.

UPDATE: For those not in Australia and unable to watch on ABC iview, the embedded Tweets below show a few clips and (SPOILER ALERT) the finished portrait.

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Hi. 22 years ago, I went to WAAPA to try to learn to read music. I learnt other stuff instead. Recently, they put on a genuinely special ceremony and gave me an undeserved-but-much-appreciated honorary degree. I gave them a too-long speech.

The text is below.

“Of all the unexpected outcomes of my unexpected career, one of the more annoying is that I’ve managed to get a reputation for being able to write a reasonable speech. Like with my gigs these days, I battle a pervasive feeling that I can therefore only let you down. Woe is me. With this one, I left myself a whole day – yesterday – to write, and then yesterday went to shit, and so now it’s a three-hour jobby from this morning. It might be a little rambly.
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For the third year, Yamaha are awarding one lucky school in Australia their annual Great Start Grant!

This year the grant consists of enough instruments (34 brand new Yamaha instruments) and training to get a school band program Off To A Great Start plus an in-school concert with Tim! Applications are open now.

Apply for the grant and find more details here.

Applications close 16th March 2019.

Tim announced the grant on Today and talked about the importance of music in schools, as well as his own exposure to music at a young age and in school. (Video only available in Australia)

Robin Hood is now available on Digital in the US and will be out on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD 19th February 2019.

Taron Egerton plays Robin Hood, with Jamie Foxx as Little John, Eve Hewson as Maid Marian, Jamie Dornan as Will Scarlet, Ben Mendelsohn as Sheriff of Nottingham and Tim as Friar Tuck.

More #RobinHoodMovie details and US purchase options here.

Release dates for other countries:

United Kingdom: available on Digital 18th March 2019 and on DVD 25th March 2019.
France: available on DVD 28th March 2019 and on Digital 29th March 2019.
Spain: available on Digital and DVD 29th March 2019.

More will be added as we’re provided with them.

Tim as Friar Tuck

Here is the first of what will hopefully be an album worth of song releases in 2019. It’s called 15 Minutes. I hope it amuses.
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14th January 2019: Now available to download or stream from all the usual places, including:

Australia:
iTunes & Apple Music

UK:
iTunes & Apple Music
Amazon UK

US:
iTunes & Apple Music
Amazon US

Also available on:
Spotify
YouTube Music

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