November 2022

November 2022

Matilda The Musical Movie and Soundtrack

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical will be showing in cinemas only in the UK and Ireland from November 25th; you can get tickets here. The film will then debut in select cinemas in Australia from December 8th and the US from December 9th before becoming widely available on Netflix on December 25th. (Netflix UK & Ireland Sunday 25th June 2023).

VINYL UPDATE:(4/03/23) Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is available – ON VINYL from April 21st. Find it here for pre orders.

UPDATE:(20/02/23) UK and Ireland! Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is available to Buy or Rent from all the usual digital platforms: Apple TV, Sky Store, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play and more.
Now available on Blu-ray (including Sing-Along) and DVD!

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film) will be released digitally on the 18th November and on CD on the 9th December.

Order CD/Download: https://soundtracks.lnk.to/matilda

Within the album’s 22 tracks are 12 songs written by Tim for the critically-acclaimed, award-winning West End production, newly-recorded by the film’s extraordinary cast: Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham, and newcomer Alisha Weir as Matilda. Track 22 is a special new song Tim wrote for the movie: ‘Still Holding My Hand’.

In addition, the soundtrack also includes 10 instrumental score pieces by Christopher Nightingale, music supervisor and orchestrator of the original stage production.

There’s a Songbook too! Available in the UK and Europe now from Musicroom. If you’re in the US and Canada you can preorder from Hal Leonard. They will both ship internationally and the folio will arrive on Australian shores shortly so it’s now available to preorder from Hal Leonard Australia.

The Songbook presents the 12 songs from the hit movie soundtrack, arranged for voice and piano with chord symbols, including ‘Still Holding My Hand’ which you can also acquire as Digital Sheet Music for Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords or for Easy Piano from Sheet Music Direct.

Matilda the Musical Soundtrack Track List

1.Miracle**
2.Naughty**
3.The Acrobat and The Escapologist
4.School Song**
5.The Hammer**
6.Chokey Chant – Hide Me
7.And So The Great Day Arrived
8.The Biggest Burp
9.Bruce**
10.When I Grow Up**
11.The Most Dangerous feat
12.I’m Here**
13.The Smell of Rebellion**
14.The Newt – Stretchy Ears
15.Quiet**
16.Telekinesis
17.My House**
18.The Truth – Chokey Destruction
19.Day of Reckoning
20.Magnus Returns
21.Revolting Children**
22.Still Holding My Hand**

**Denotes album vocal tracks and those included in the Songbook.

Tim: “It’s now fifteen years since Matthew Warchus and Dennis Kelly asked me to help them create Matilda The Musical, and I never dreamed that the songs would still be finding new life now. Matilda The Musical has now been performed all over the world, in different accents, different languages, and by performers of all stripes; each of them bringing to the tale their own style, their own experiences, their own passion. This album is another — very, very exciting — chapter in the Matilda story.”

Christopher Nightingale: “The range and breadth of musical opportunity that this classic story offers up is a gift for any composer. The diversity of the songs is gloriously far-reaching, and my first job in writing the original score was to try and build a framework that might bind things together; find, create and extend common ground. I am incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to write a score that has had such intrinsic value in a movie. Matthew Warchus is innately musical himself, and it’s excellent to work with someone who values and understands the role music plays in a story like this.”

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is directed by Matthew Warchus and with a screenplay by Dennis Kelly.

UPRIGHT Season Two

Lucky (Tim) and Meg (Milly Alcock) will hit the open road – and river – once again when the misfit duo are unexpectedly reunited four years after their epic adventure crossing the Nullarbor Plain with a cherished piano. This time they trade the desert for the steamy tropics of Far North Queensland on a mission to find Meg’s mum.

Tim: “We worked so hard on this second season, having to overcome many hurdles on the way. The making of art imitating art, I guess. Things are different in Meg and Lucky’s world, and shit gets even weirder than in season 1, but hopefully it will connect with people in the same way. Ep 8 is another tear-jerker, if jerking tears is your thing. (It is mine!)”

Both Seasons are already available in:

Australia: FOXTEL and BINGE (from Tuesday November 15th, 2022),
UK: Sky Comedy and NOW TV (from Tuesday November 22nd, 2022)
Now available on DVD in the UK too.
Canada: Super Channel Fuse (from Sunday December 18th, 2022) and now on CBC GEM too.
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video channels and Apple TV+.
Flanders, Belgium: Streamz (from Wednesday 18th January, 2023)
USA:  Sundance Now (from Thursday 26th January,2023)
New Zealand:  TVNZ  (from Tuesday February 28th, 2023)
Spain: Filmin
Netherlands: Ziggo

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

UPRIGHT Season One details here.

UPRIGHT is available on DVD in the UK:

UPRIGHT Season 1 – from Amazon, HMV and more.
UPRIGHT Season 2 – from Amazon, HMV and more.
Upright Seasons 1&2 Box Set – from Amazon, HMV and more.

Season Two is directed by Mirrah Foulkes.
Tim: “We were so lucky to have the brilliant Mirrah Foulkes steering the metaphorical tinny up the allegorical creek.”

Tim, the Executive Producer, Lead Writer, and star of UPRIGHT has again written some music for the series, alongside another beautiful score by Jackson Milas and Antony Partos. Tim wrote The Aeroplane which was released earlier this month and Spider Girl which he’s been playing at Australian festivals this year for the series.


The official trailer for the new eight-episode season is not yet available globally but you should be able to get a sneak peek at what’s in store for Lucky and Meg here if you’re in Australia and if you’re in the UK and ROW here.

Along with Tim (The Secret RiverCalifornication) and Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon), UPRIGHT features a stellar returning cast including Heather Mitchell (Love Me, Palm Beach), Ella Scott Lynch (Amazing Grace, The Code), Daniel Lapaine (Catastrophe, Five Bedrooms), Daniel Frederiksen (The Dry, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) and Asmara Feik (The True History of the Kelly Gang, The Listies Work for Peanuts). Joining the cast for season two are Australian icon Noni Hazlehurst (June Again, A Place To Call Home), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat, Packed to the Rafters), Hayley McElhinney (Mystery Road: Origin, Doctor Doctor), Darren Gilshenan (How To Stay Married, Stateless), Tom Budge (Gallipoli, Judy & Punch), Anita Hegh (Total Control, Janet King), Travis Cotton (New Gold Mountain, Neighbours) and Nicholas Brown (The Unlisted).

More about UPRIGHT Season One here.

UPRIGHT is a Lingo Pictures production for FOXTEL and Sky UK

The “Australian Story” on ABCTV

“Australian Story” this week addresses the topic about which I know the most but am least interested: me. It’s also about Sarah, so there’s redemption in that.

The Aeroplane is OUT NOW!

Tim’s new single The Aeroplane is OUT NOW!

The song was written for UPRIGHT Season 2. More on that coming soon.
Tim: “It’s a weepy one”.

Listen here: tim-minchin.lnk.to/theaeroplaneWE.

Right now, if you click this link or head over to Tim’s YouTube Shorts, you can find out how to win an Apart Together Vinyl Bundle: https://tktrev.com/TimMinchinAeroplane

Here’s the video. He’s wearing a beanie and there are some familiar faces for those of you who caught the BACK tour.

Lyrics below.

Lyrics:
If I had the blueprint or the brain
I would build an aeroplane
I’d fashion wings of balsa wood and glue
And I would fly to you

I’d carve a prop from old recycled would haves
All these relentless could have
These pointless might have beens
Oh the storms that I would gladly battle through
So I could fly to you

Had I the method or the means
I would build a time machine
I’d make it from the scraps you aways find
When someone leaves their broken dreams behind

And I’d fuel it with the beats that my heart misses
When you sign your name with kisses
Made of x’s when you text me
It’s so silly but
Any fuel and any fire will do
I will fly to you

And I’d carve a prop from old recycled would haves
All these relentless could haves
These pointless might have beens
Oh the storms that I would gladly battle through
So I could fly to you
Oh the storms that I would gladly battle through
So I could fly to you

#theaeroplane