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Tim will be headlining a charity gig for Amnesty International as part of their 50th Anniversary. Live & Ungagged Again! will be at The Sands Centre in Carlisle on Friday 23rd Sept at 7.30pm. 100% of the profits go to Amnesty International.

He’ll be joined by Jarred Christmas, Daniel Sloss, Imran Yusuf and the evening will be compered by Chris Ramsey.

Tickets are £21/£18 Students and go on sale 9am Tuesday 26th July.
www.thesandscentre.co.uk
Box Office: 01228 625222

Tim will be live, ungagged, uncaged, unrestrained, unimpeded, unshod, unabashed, …underpanted and unsurprisingly gloriously unkempt of hairdo. Fancy unwinding and having a giggle with Tim and the rest of the line up, all in aid of an important campaigning organisation?

You know what to do…

Going to or thinking of going to the Green Man Festival this year?

Green Man is held at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales and runs from the 19th-21st August 2011 but early arrivals on Thursday 18th August will be able to see Tim performing at a special evening gig to open the festival!

Gates and camp sites open at 10am on Thursday 18th August.

The festival is pretty close to selling out but you can still get tickets from Ticketline. Pricing and other ticket outlets are listed here, where you’ll also be able to access the full line up and festival details.

Go Green, See Red…

It’s been a long time coming, but we can finally confirm that Tim has some swanky, new merchandise for you North Americans!

Shirt

If you’re catching him on tour this month or next, there’s this rather lovely shirt that you can pick up at shows (tacks not included).

There’s no information about whether it’ll be made available online but if it is, rest assured there’ll be an announcement about it!

CD

‘Ready for This?’ is going to get a proper CD release, in shops and stuff, soon and will also be available at Tim’s gigs from later this week. If you’ve been missing it on iTunes, then good news on that front as that’s coming back shortly too!

DVD

You’ve been waiting for this one! ‘Ready For This?’ as recorded at Hammersmith Apollo in 2009, is planned to be released in September. This is all that’s known at this point but, again, once we have any more information on this, we’ll let you know.

Full details of Tim’s North American shows, where you can pick up some of this swag, can be found on the gigs page, and, if you noticed the back of the shirt, it might be worth keeping an eye on it too…

As if it wasn’t enough that Tim’s playing at Apple Cart Festival on the 7th August, Beautiful Days on the 21st August and the Reading and Leeds weekenders, we can also announce that he’s playing at yet another festival this year!

Tim will be opening the Greenwich Comedy Festival on the 5th September, alongside Holly Walsh and two other acts, who are still to be announced. The festival will take place in the Old Royal Naval College, with the other acts performing including Rich Hall, Milton Jones, Kevin Eldon, David O’Doherty and Abandoman.

Tickets for all the shows and the full line up of who’s performing so far, are available from the Greenwich Comedy Festival website.

Who do you hope will be joining him and Holly Walsh?

If you missed out on tickets to see Tim at Bonnaroo or if you, perhaps, simply want to see some more of him, then read on!

Tomorrow at 6pm ET / 3pm PT, Comedy Central are hosting a three to four hour live webcast of some of the comedy acts that are appearing at this weekend’s festival, and one of them is none other than Tim!

He’ll be appearing along with acts such as Bill Bailey, Lewis Black, Henry Rollins and Donald Glover. The full line up, and, eventually, the link to stream this comedy extravaganza, are available on Comedy Central’s website.

While this is streaming over the internet, it’s unlikely this will be viewable outside of America due to copyright, but there’s no harm trying, right?

And if it ends up leaving you wanting more, don’t forget, there are a host of US gigs still to come, with a full list of all the dates on the gigs page.

Last night on Conan Tim performed ‘Prejudice’ as many of you correctly predicted in the blog that announced it.

If you are in Australia you might want to delay looking at the video below as you’ll be able to see the show on GEM this Thursday 9th June, 2011.

However, for those in the US who missed it and those in the UK and elsewhere, here’s the bare footage for your delectation:

[edit – ok, this video seems to have gone away. not our fault. oh well, you’re not reading this anyway, it’s too long ago isn’t it.]

Tim is currently on a two month tour of the US and you can find all the dates and ticket links here.

And another four American tour dates have been confirmed, for those near Atlanta, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Philadelphia!

Atlanta, Tim will be bringing his flashy dance moves and bare feet to Center Stage* on the 14th July 2011.

St. Louis, you’ll be treated to Tim’s skin-tight jeans and stupid hair at the Sheldon Concert Hall** on 15th July 2011.

Minneapolis, join Tim at the Pantages Theatre on the 16th July 2011 to see his rockin’ eyeliner and his enormous… sense of showmanship***

Philadelphia, Tim will be rocking up to the Theatre of Living Arts on the 22nd July 2011, showing off his witty repartee and massive… repertoire****

Tickets for the Atlanta and St. Louis shows go on sale tomorrow at 10am – Atlanta tickets can be bought from Ticketmaster and St. Louis tickets can be bought from MetroTix. While they both say general sale commences then, if you do need a password, it’ll be ‘reese’.

Minneapolis tickets go on sale on Friday from Ticketmaster from 10am CDT and Philadelphia tickets will be available from LiveNation from Wednesday at 10am EDT. While we don’t have any presale information yet for these two shows, if we do get any, we’ll be sure to update this post with it, just for you, because we like you.

Update: There will be a Minneapolis presale from Wednesday at 10am. The password you’ll need for it is VOICE.

And, if none of these float your boat, don’t forget there are already plenty of other US dates already announced on the gigs page!

*The flashy dance moves and bare feet will also be making an appearance at the Sheldon Concert Hall, the Pantages Theatre and the Theatre of Living Arts.
** Atlanta, Minneapolis and Philadelphia, you’ll also be getting skin-tight jeans and stupid hair.
*** Rockin’ eyeliner and his enormous… sense of showmanship will also be on display at Center Stage, the Sheldon Concert Hall and the Theatre of Living Arts.
**** Witty repartee and massive… repertoire also available at Atlanta, St. Louis and Minneapolis

Following his extremely well received US TV debut on the show back in January, Tim’ll be appearing on Conan on tbs at 11/10c again on Tuesday 7th June, 2011. The other guests are rapper and TV personality Flavor Flav and Australian chef, author and TV personality Curtis Stone.

If you’d like a reminder of his last perfomance of ‘Inflatable You’ on the show, do take a look here.

What are you hoping for/predicting he’ll perform on the show this time?

Edit: Last time the show aired in Australia on GEM a few days later. We have no confirmation that this will happen again but it might be worth looking out for, just in case. If it happens, it’ll likely be Thursday 9th June, 2011 – 11:30pm

Another day and another American tour date (and there are still more to come) and, like yesterday’s, this one was highly requested by you guys!

So, allow me to announce that Tim will be heading over to the Bay Area for a gig in San Francisco! The show will take place at the poshly named Palace of Fine Arts on 8th July 2011 and tickets for this shindig went on sale this very morning from Ticketmaster!

If you like your comedy combined with a mixture of piano playing, intelligence, big hair, bare feet and impossibly tight jeans, then you’d best get your mitts on tickets sharpish, else you’ll feel a fool when it’s all sold out, and no one wants you feeling a fool, especially not the fool…

Yet another date has been added to Tim’s US tour! They just keep on coming and it serves you right for all that requesting. Yup.

This time Tim will be hitting the Warner Theatre in downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday 23rd July 2011.

The theatre is just three blocks east of the White House so it’ll be very easy for everyone *wink* to find…

As with the rest of the US dates this will be a solo show: Tim, his grand piano, an excruciatingly tousled hairdo, quite a lot of eyeliner, decent threads, loads of furious energy and some bare feet.

Tickets go onsale tomorrow, Friday 3rd June at 10am EST and are available from Live Nation.

Tim will be appearing at the Beautiful Days Festival, Escot Park, Ottery St Mary, Devon.

Tim will be performing in The Big Top (Stage 2) on Sunday 21 August 2011.

The line-up of comedians for ‘Scary Dave presents’ on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons in The Little Big Top (Stage 3) includes: Sol Bernstein, Dougie Dunlop, Debra Jane Appleby, Paddy Lennox, Bentley, Scott Denyer, Rich Allen and Nick Page.

Headline acts: BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (original line-up), GOGOL BORDELLO (back by popular demand), CARTER USM (UK festival exclusive) and LEVELLERS will be on the main stages.

The full line-up and further information can be found at the Beautiful Days website.

Tickets are available from Seetickets and from other agencies listed listed here on the website.

Apparently the Sunday theme for Beautiful Days 2011 is SPOTS & POLKA DOTS!
Somebody better tell Tim to root out that bikini then…
If you plan to go dotty, let us know.

Updated to reflect that Tim will be performing in The Big Top (Stage 2) not the smaller Stage 3, as per the updated press release.

Well you asked for it and we didn’t want any ire in Ireland so Tim’s going to be heading to Dublin, for the first time since 2009, to do a couple of solo shows this October!

Tim Minchin Live
Vicar St, Dublin
Thursday 13th & Friday 14th October 2011
Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster on Tuesday 31st May at 9am.

As well as his grand piano and apparel befitting a style guru, Tim will be joined onstage by his iconic dance moves, wildly teased hair, gently calmed eyebrows, natural aplomb and his enormous… sense of occasion.

Get ready Ireland!

Heads up!

Tim’ll be swimming [with a float] across the pond very shortly to do lots of gigs for you lovely lot.

As well as his grand piano and apparel befitting a style guru, Tim will be joined onstage by his iconic dance moves, wildly teased hair, gently calmed eyebrows, natural aplomb and his enormous… sense of occasion.

Irresistible huh?

So, there are still a few tickets available and although you can access all the links via the gigs page, here they are, all listed prettily below for your pleasure and clicking convenience:

Toronto
Friday 3rd of June 2011
Venue: The Winter Garden Theatre 
Tickets

Boston
Saturday 4th of June 2011
Wilbur Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
Tickets

Chicago
Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th, Thursday 16th, Friday 17th, and Saturday 18th of June 2011
Venue: Lincoln Hall
Tickets

Los Angeles
Tuesday 21st and Tuesday 28th of June 2011
Venue: Largo at the Coronet
Tickets

Portland
Thursday 23rd of June 2011
Venue: The Aladdin Theatre
Tickets

Seattle
Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of June 2011
Venue: Neptune Theatre
Tickets

Austin
Friday 1st of July 2011
Venue: Paramount Theatre
Tickets

Anaheim
Saturday 2nd of July 2011
Venue: City National Grove of Anaheim
Tickets

Montreal
Thursday 28th, Friday 29th and Saturday 30th of July 2011
Venue: L’Astral
Tickets

Tip: If you have missed out on tickets to a show it is always worth checking with the venue for returns or last minute ticket releases.

Tim also has a few festival appearances in the US. Details of which can be found here.

Keep an eye on this site for more US gig announcements coming soon.

There have been a fair few questions asking whether there’ll be a DVD of Tim’s orchestra show, and now we can confirm that, yes, there will be!

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London in April 2011 with the Heritage Orchestra, this DVD will be available to buy from both the UK and Australia.

Currently, no other information has been confirmed, despite what you might have seen elsewhere, but as soon as there’s any more news on it, we’ll be sure to let you know, so keep your eyes peeled for updates!

Chances are you’ll already know about the highly successful and much lauded Matilda The Musical, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years. Based on the Roald Dahl book, it was produced by the RSC and directed by Matthew Warchus, with Dennis Kelly writing the book and our own Tim Minchin providing the music and lyrics, and it ran at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from November last year, through to this January.

Now, if you’re anything like us, you’ll be wondering, that’s such a short run for such an amazing show, so will it be heading to the West End? Well, we told you at the end of March, that it will be, but now is the time to unleash the all-important and exciting details!

From the 18th of October 2011, Matilda The Musical will take up residence at the Cambridge Theatre in London!

Most of the adult cast from the Stratford-upon-Avon run will be reprising their roles, so if you missed it, you’ll still be able to see:

• Bertie Carvel as the terrifying Miss Trunchbull
• Paul Kaye as the weasely Mr Wormwood
• Lauren Ward as the sweet Miss Honey
• Josie Walker as the vociferous Mrs Wormwood
• Melanie Le Barrie as the kindly Mrs Phelps

Also staying on will be Marc Antolin, Verity Bentham, Michael Kent, Matthew Malthouse, Alastair Parker, Nick Searle and Emily Shaw.

The four children playing the star of the story, Matilda, are still being cast, as are the three groups of children will be taking turns playing her cheeky classmates and we’ll be sure to raise a fuss once they’re announced!

In addition to this, the creative team who brought you the Stratford-upon-Avon will be weaving their magic once again with this West End run!

So, here’s the bit you really want to know. How to get your hands on tickets!

The show will initially be booking up to, and including, the 12th February 2012 and tickets will be on sale on Saturday at 9am from the official Matilda website. Unless, of course, you’re an RSC Member, in which case, booking opens for you tomorrow at 9am!

And, after all that, if you’re after more information, head on over to the Matilda page to read about the show’s story so far and the plethora of four and five star reviews it received during its time in Stratford-upon-Avon!

Now, on top of all this thrilling news, comes yet more! You might need to take a minute or so to catch your breath first…

The soundtrack to this amazing musical (not that we’re biased) is finally being produced! Recorded with the original Stratford-upon-Avon cast, it’ll be released around August/September and is available for you to pre-order from The RSC shop right now!

Finally, as always, the best way to hear about Matilda news first, is to sign up to the RSC mailing list.

Phew! You’re free to have a lie down now after all that excitement.