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New Year’s Eve: The Night is Yours

ABC TV have announced that Tim will be joining a star-studded line-up for the live New Year’s Eve: The Night is Yours concert at the Sydney Opera House!

He’ll debut a brand new song, and play two covers – one of which will be a duet with Ben Folds. Then, he’ll lead the entire cast on the finale before the night is topped off by spectacular midnight fireworks over Sydney Harbour.

Hosts Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe will be counting down to 2019 from 9.30pm AEDT and the dazzling concert includes performances by Tim, Ben Folds, Christine Anu, Ross Wilson, Daryl Braithwaite, Casey Donovan, Isabella Manfredi of The Preatures, Client Liaison, Baker Boy, Kaiit and G Flip. They’ll be performing their own hits along with songs from a party playlist voted for by the public.

The programme will be live-streamed worldwide on Facebook and YouTube:

YouTube Stream (ABC TV)

Facebook Stream (ABC TV)

Here’s a handy Time Zone Converter.

Happy New Year!

Hey! This year, all November, December and January proceeds from my sentimental Christmas song White Wine In The Sun will be going to Aspect, a charity that supports Aussie children and adults on the Autism spectrum.

If you already have the song, you might like to gift it via iTunes or donate directly here.

Here’s my performance of the song last year, on The Late Late Show with James Corden, with Iain Grandage’s beautiful strings arrangement and a LOT of candles.

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There are two versions to download: the 2009 solo version and the 2012 studio version.

Here are a few of the places you can download the 2012 studio version (with strings, french horn and more) internationally:

iTunes
Amazon (UK)
Amazon (US)

Robin Hood is in US movie theatres and UK cinemas TODAY!

It’ll be in Australian cinemas tomorrow 22nd November. Worldwide Release Dates for #RobinHoodMovie here.

Taron Egerton will play 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.

Interview (audio and a transcript) with Tim here talking about the movie, filming and his role. Some great images on there too.

Directed by Otto Bathurst and filmed in Croatia and Hungary, Robin Hood is a gritty new take on the classic story.

Tim’ll be wiggling into view periodically in Orange Is The New Brown, a hilarious new sketch comedy series from Nazeem Hussain, starting Thursday 8th November at 8:30pm on Channel 7.

The series takes a look at race, popular culture, politics and life in contemporary Australia, through fast paced sketches featuring an ensemble cast of Australia’s hottest comedy stars, including Urzila Carlson, Becky Lucas and Matt Okine, plus some big-name cameos.

The untold story of the Brown Wiggle…
#OrangeIsTheNewBrown

Hi lovely humans. I’m (finally) touring again! Phew.

I’ll be playing in Australia in March – April, and then in the UK in October – November of 2019. Venues and dates below.

Tickets to both tours go on sale to the masses next Thursday 6th September. BUT…

… You can get access to PRE-SALE tickets on Wednesday 5th, IF you register as Ticketmaster Verified Fan (It sounds like a bit of a wank, but it’s a system to try to curtail scalpers. It’s a good thing, I think). You need to register BEFORE 5pm AEST on SUNDAY (11:59pm BST for the UK). Details below.

I’ll also be selling 50 Premium Charity Seats every night at a ridiculously high price, and all the income from those seats will go to charity. If you have a bit of spare cash, please keep an eye out for those. Information on Australian charities here. (UK charities TBC)

Hope you can come. I think it will be very fun.

Tim x

Tim Minchin – BACK – Australia 2019

ADELAIDE Thebarton Theatre – Tuesday 5th March – SOLD OUT
ADELAIDE Thebarton Theatre – Wednesday 6th March -SOLD OUT
ADELAIDE Thebarton Theatre – Thursday 7th March – SOLD OUT
ADELAIDE Thebarton Theatre – Friday 8th March – SOLD OUT
ADELAIDE Thebarton Theatre – Saturday 9th March – SOLD OUT
CANBERRA Theatre – Tuesday 12th March – SOLD OUT
CANBERRA Theatre – Wednesday 13th March – SOLD OUT
CANBERRA Theatre – Thursday 14th March – SOLD OUT
CANBERRA Theatre – Friday 15th March – SOLD OUT
CANBERRA Theatre – Saturday 16th March -SOLD OUT
PERTH Crown Theatre – Tuesday 19th March – SOLD OUT
PERTH Crown Theatre – Wednesday 20th March – SOLD OUT
PERTH Crown Theatre – Thursday 21st March – SOLD OUT
PERTH Crown Theatre – Friday 22nd March – SOLD OUT
PERTH Crown Theatre – Saturday 23rd March – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Tuesday 26th March – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Wednesday 27th March – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Thursday 28th March – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Friday 29th March – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Wednesday 3rd April – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Thursday 4th April – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Friday 5th April – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Saturday 6th April – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Sunday 7th April – SOLD OUT
BRISBANE QPAC – Tuesday 9th April – SOLD OUT
BRISBANE QPAC – Wednesday 10th April – SOLD OUT
BRISBANE QPAC – Thursday 11th April – SOLD OUT
BRISBANE QPAC – Friday 12th April – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Tuesday 23rd April – SOLD OUT
MELBOURNE Palais Theatre – Wednesday 24th April – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Sunday 28th April – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Monday 29th April – SOLD OUT
SYDNEY State Theatre – Tuesday 30th April – SOLD OUT
GOLD COAST The Star – Friday 3rd May – SOLD OUT
GOLD COAST The Star – Saturday 4th May – SOLD OUT

Tim Minchin – BACK – New Zealand 2019

AUCKLAND ASB Theatre – Sunday 14th April – SOLD OUT
AUCKLAND ASB Theatre – Monday 15th April – SOLD OUT
AUCKLAND ASB Theatre – Tuesday 16th April – SOLD OUT
WELLINGTON Michael Fowler Centre – Thursday 18th April – SOLD OUT
WELLINGTON Michael Fowler Centre – Friday 19th April – SOLD OUT

Tim Minchin – BACK – UK 2019

UPDATE: (11/02/19)
Tim’s 2019 UK Tour ‘BACK’ has now sold out.

If you missed out or have tickets to spare 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 here.

IPSWICH Regent – Tuesday 15th October – SOLD OUT
IPSWICH Regent – Wednesday 16th October – SOLD OUT
OXFORD New Theatre – Thursday 17th October – SOLD OUT
OXFORD New Theatre – Friday 18th October – SOLD OUT
OXFORD New Theatre – Saturday 19th October – SOLD OUT
SHEFFIELD City Hall – Tuesday 22nd October – SOLD OUT
NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall – Wednesday 23rd October – SOLD OUT
NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall – Thursday 24th October – SOLD OUT
MANCHESTER O2 Apollo – Friday 25th October – SOLD OUT
MANCHESTER O2 Apollo – Saturday 26th October – SOLD OUT
CARDIFF St David’s Hall – Tuesday 29th October – SOLD OUT
CARDIFF St David’s Hall – Wednesday 30th October – SOLD OUT
LIVERPOOL Empire – Thursday 31st October – SOLD OUT
LIVERPOOL Empire – Friday 1st November – SOLD OUT
PORTSMOUTH Guildhall – Saturday 2nd November – SOLD OUT
PLYMOUTH Pavilions – Tuesday 5th November – SOLD OUT
PLYMOUTH Pavilions – Wednesday 6th November – SOLD OUT
LONDON Eventim Apollo – Thursday 7th November- SOLD OUT
LONDON Eventim Apollo – Friday 8th November – SOLD OUT
LONDON Palladium – Saturday 9th November – SOLD OUT
LONDON Eventim Apollo – Tuesday 12th November – SOLD OUT
LONDON Eventim Apollo – Wednesday 13th November – SOLD OUT
LONDON Eventim Apollo – Thursday 14th November – SOLD OUT
BIRMINGHAM Hippodrome – Friday 15th November – SOLD OUT
BIRMINGHAM Hippodrome – Saturday 16th November – SOLD OUT
EDINBURGH Playhouse – Tuesday 19th November – SOLD OUT
EDINBURGH Playhouse – Wednesday 20th November – SOLD OUT
GATESHEAD Sage Gateshead – Thursday 21st November – SOLD OUT
GLASGOW SEC Armadillo – Friday 22nd November – SOLD OUT
EDINBURGH Playhouse – Saturday 23rd November – SOLD OUT
BRIGHTON Dome – Tuesday 26th November – SOLD OUT
BRIGHTON Dome – Wednesday 27th November – SOLD OUT
SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion – Thursday 28th November – SOLD OUT
SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion – Friday 29th November – SOLD OUT
SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion – Saturday 30th November – SOLD OUT

UPDATE: (11/02/19)
Tim’s 2019 UK Tour ‘BACK’ has now sold out.

If you missed out or have tickets to spare 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 here.

VERIFIED FAN PRESALE  (NOW ENDED)

WHAT IS THE TICKETMASTER VERIFIED FAN PRESALE?
Tim is committed to getting tickets into the hands of real fans – not scalpers or bots. Since there is a limited quantity of tickets, they will be available through a registration and ballot-selection process called ‘Verified Fan*’.
*Please Note: There is no Verified Fan presale in Brisbane.

During the Registration Period, log into your Ticketmaster account and complete the Verified Fan Program registration form. If you do not already have a Ticketmaster account, you may create an account for free.

AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND
Verified Fan Presale: Wed 5th Sept 2018, 12pm until Thur 6th September 2018, 12pm (Local Time)*
Brisbane Presale: Wed 5th September, 12pm until Thur 6th September, 12pm (Local Time)
General Public On Sale: Thur 6th September, 2pm (Local Time)
(* Please Note: There is no Verified Fan presale in Brisbane)

AUSTRALIA: https://lvna.co/TimMinchinAU
NEW ZEALAND:  https://lvna.co/TimMinchinNZ

AUS/NZ REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN NOW AND CLOSE AT 5PM AEST, SUN 2nd SEPT

If you are selected during the ballot process, in Aus/NZ you’ll receive an SMS on Wednesday 5th September 2018 approximately 2-4 hours before presale tickets go on sale at 12pm Local Time.

So keep your phone handy!
Your SMS will include your link to purchase and your unique code to access tickets.

Click HERE for further information about Ticketmaster Verified Fan – ANZ

UK
Verified Fan Presale UK: Wed 5th September 2018, 10am BST until Thur 6th September 10am BST 
UK General Public On Sale: Thur 6th September 2018 10am BST

UK: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/timminchinUK

UK REGISTRATIONS WILL OPEN 10AM BST THUR 30th AUG AND CLOSE AT 11:59PM BST, SUN 2nd SEPT

If you are selected during the ballot process and you’re in the UK you’ll receive an SMS on Wednesday 5th September 2018 approximately 2-4 hours before presale tickets go on sale at 10am BST.

So keep your phone handy!
Your SMS will include your link to purchase and your unique code to access tickets.

Click HERE for further information about Ticketmaster Verified Fan – UK

Tour announcement coming – watch Tim’s social media!

No Activity is currently airing on BBC TWO. Click here for the schedule.

Two episodes are already available on BBC iPlayer, along with a host of clips.

The six part Australian comedy series, stars Patrick Brammall and Darren Gilshenan. It follows two police detectives, Hendy and Stokes, killing time on a stakeout, waiting for something to happen. It doesn’t. Genevieve Morris and Harriet Dyer are unlikely dispatch officers, Carol and April, while Dan Wylie, David Field and Sam Simmons make up the disorganised crime element.

Tim plays Jacob, a security guard working at the docks, tasked with looking out for anything unusual, so he can tip off the cops.

No Activity first aired in Australia on Stan in October 2015.

Tim’s signed a major production deal with Foxtel and today, along with Screen Australia, they announced his starring role in UPRIGHT, a landmark co-production with Sky UK.. He’s co-producing, writing the music and co-writing the script for the eight-part series, sure to resonate with Australian and international viewers.

Tim: “From the moment I heard about the idea for UPRIGHT, I knew it was the show I’d been waiting to make. I like stories that make me laugh and think and cry, I adore the landscapes of outback Australia, and I love music, and homecomings, and characters full of flaws. It’s awesome to be writing with this extraordinary team, and I’m looking forward to acting alongside Milly Alcock, who I think is a really special talent.”

There’s a stellar team behind UPRIGHT, including the creator Chris Taylor (The Chaser) with whom Tim is writing the series alongside award-winning writer-actors Kate Mulvany (Fighting Season, Jasper Jones stage play) and Leon Ford (Offspring, No Activity). The Director is Matthew Saville (Please Like Me). Tim is Executive Producer with Penny Win and Helen Bowden. Producers are Lingo Pictures’ Jason Stephens, Chris Taylor and Melissa Kelly (Hounds of Love).

UPRIGHT tells the story of 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.

Lucky Flynn (Tim) hasn’t spoken to his family in years. He’s broke, distant and damaged. He’s also a gifted pianist, whose talent for music is matched only by his talent for self-destruction. When he learns that his mother has only days left to live, Lucky sets off in a hire car to drive the 4000 kilometres from Sydney to Perth to say goodbye to her, taking with him his only cherished possession in the world – a battered and scarred upright piano. But what should have been a straightforward drive across the Nullarbor soon becomes a test of Lucky’s emotional fitness, when he (quite literally) runs into Meg (Milly Alcock), a hilarious, tough-as-nails teenager, who we soon discover has plenty of scars and secrets of her own.

Production will begin in South Australia and Western Australia in October.

UPRIGHT is a Lingo Pictures production for Foxtel and Sky UK, with major production investment from Foxtel and Screen Australia in association with the South Australian Film Corporation. Financed with support from Create NSW and Screenwest. Rest of world sales are being handled by eOne.

showcasechannel.com.au.

There’s a new trailer out for the Robin Hood movie, with a few more glimpses of Tim as Friar Tuck:

If you don’t use Facebook you can find the trailer on Twitter or YouTube.

Directed by Otto Bathurst and filmed in Croatia and Hungary, Robin Hood is a gritty new take on the classic story.

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

IMDb: A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance.

The film hits movie theatres November 2018.

ABC has released Matilda & Me to rent or buy on iTunes in the UK and Ireland!

UK: https://ab.co/MatildaandMeiTunesUK 
Ireland: https://ab.co/MatildaandMeiTunesIre

Narrated by Tim’s sister Nel, who co-directed with Rhian Skirving, Matilda & Me tells the story of Tim’s journey with Matilda The Musical to the Sydney Lyric Theatre. The doco includes a mix of rare family footage, interviews, musical performance and Australian Matilda The Musical rehearsals. More details here.

Matilda & Me is already available on DVD in the UK and DVD and iTunes in Australia.

Tim’ll be sitting down with Andrew Denton on Channel 7’s “Interview” next Tuesday 3rd July at 8:45pm.

This is the second time Tim’s been interviewed by Andrew, the first being back in 2008. Tune in to see what they talk about after an eventful 10 year interval. There’s a piano so it’s a safe bet that Tim will be hitting the keys.

Alternatively, you can watch the programme live online here and you’ll be able to catch-up on 7Plus here, shortly after it airs.

UPDATE (03/07/18): To clarify – Interviews with Tim AND Guy Pearce will be shown tonight.

Tim: “I’m looking forward to sitting on top of a mountain in the middle of New South Wales and stargazing with my favourite astrophysicist. We might even play a song or two.”

Tim will be joining Professor Brian Cox, Julia Zemiro and a team of scientists and space enthusiasts on Tuesday May 22nd for ABC’s 2018 Stargazing Live.

Broadcasting live around the country from Australian National University’s Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) in New South Wales, the programme will air across three nights on ABC and ABC iview at 8.00pm AEST, 7.30pm ACST, and 6pm AWST on 22nd, 23rd and 24th May 2018.

Stargazing Live will also be streamed live on the ABC TV YouTube channel and ABC TV Facebook page.

You’ll find heaps more information, images, ways to watch and get involved on the Stargazing Live website: abc.net.au/stargazing.

#StargazingABC

UPDATE:
Episode 1 is now available on ABC iview, but only for a month, until 22nd June, 2018.

Here’s Tim talking about what it’s like to play in the big telescope in Siding Spring:

UPDATE-2 04/06/18)
Tim popped into the Cosmic Vertigo | Stargazing Special podcast to talk about what gives him cosmic vertigo. You can download or subscribe here.
Tim: “[It’s] a sense of bigness and smallness at the same time. When you contemplate the cosmos you feel tiny. But somehow… it makes you feel huge. You feel emboldened by it.”

Photo by Anthony Harvey for The Old Vic

Announced today: Tim will play a couple of songs as part of The Old Vic Theatre’s Bicentenary Variety Night on Saturday 12th May.

The auditorium will be transformed into a cabaret space reminiscent of The Old Vic’s days as a Music Hall in the 1880s. For full line-up details and Tickets click here.

Update: SOLD OUT

Tim will be giving an exclusive solo performance at Dark Mofo on Tuesday 19th June, 2018. This will be his first Hobart show since 2011 with the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra and his first Tasmanian solo show since 2009!

Tuesday 19th June, 2018
7:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
Odeon Theatre, Hobart
$49-$79 + booking fee

Tickets go on sale at 11am (AEST) Friday 4th May here
Snap them up as they’re sure to fly!

Here’s Tim to tell you all about it and to show you around his studio:

The Program is out now at darkmofo.net.au/program

UPDATE: This show sold out in about 15 minutes! They’ve added a second show waiting list via the ticket link above, so sign up to wait for news.

UPDATE 2: Both shows – 18th and 19th June, 2018, have SOLD OUT. No more shows will be added.

Tim was at the 2018 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Music Awards at the International Convention Centre, in Sydney, this week.

In keeping with the APRA Music Awards tradition, artists put their own spin on the songs nominated in the coveted peer-voted APRA Song of the Year category. Tim performed Paul Kelly and Billy Miller’s Song of the Year winning Firewood and Candles live, with a seven piece band.

The Band:

Tim – Piano
Ben Vanderwal – Drums
Jak Housden – Guitar
James Haselwood – Bass
Ken Allars – Trumpet
Mike Raper – Trombone
Steve Fitzmaurice – Alto/Bari Saxes

There’s a little pre show interview with Tim here.