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A true original. Thank you for sharing your genius with the world; you’ve made a lifelong fan out of this American lady
My Aunty in the UK went to get her grandson a copy of ‘You so F*****g Rock’ she couldn’t bring herself to say the word to ask for it so she phoned her daughter and got her to say it over the phone!!!
My daughter turned me on to you and said, “Don’t you think grandma would have liked him?” The answer was, “Yes, she would have loved him!” My mom was a professional piano player and her favorite stuff to play was silly, old songs from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s, but especially parodies. I grew up listening to her play crazy, little, unknown tunes, then sharing with my friends. I have so missed her and can’t begin to thank you enough for working hard to become famous so you could share this great musical niche.
I’m an agnostic in southern Oregon, USA…Maybe , I’m the only one. Today, I listened to White wine in the sun. It was the first time since I played it to the most wonderful Mum a man could ask for. She left this earth, last January. No, I don’t know where she went. But she sure did love that song. I played it for her last Christmas, when she was so ill. I just want to tell you thank you, for putting a smile and a tear to both of our faces.
I bought a park, this summer. No, its a first for me. I bought it, because Mum would have wanted me to. Mum used to swim there, with all us kids, in the best swimming hole in Oregon. . I’m naming it Merete’s Cove after my Mum.Its one of the worlds most beautiful places. I’m trying to build a beautiful bandstand there. Mum loved music. I welcome you to sing there someday. I know its a little crazy. But including you, there would be at least two Atheists near the stage. Three including my sweet daughter, Brook, who also loves your music. Maybe I dream too big……. Either way, My family will be listening to white wine in the sun, this Christmas, and thinking of Mum.
Hi Tim – My wife and I saw you in Thousand Oaks on Saturday and said “hello” afterwards. We’re the couple from Phoenix who mentioned to you that I played piano and sang at her over the Internet and in return she married me. Pretty good trade, honestly. We made it back safely, by the way. Anyway I just wanted to drop a note to say thank you for such a fantastic show, and your transformative influence on my life. I’m very very very happy to be able to say that I shook your hand, and I’m very very very sad that I declined to be in the picture that you took with my wife. Come back soon!
fuk yes but don eva fukn talk bout pregnat nuns cos they cum 2 yr hous n yr mums stops u usin yr fukn pc 4 a wile
ps mail me if ur hothahaha
luv grant
hi tim i put a revew of ur show on my site u shd chek it out its fukn wkd
hahaha
luv grant
Hey Tim&Co.
I first saw u(tim) @ moorabbin town hall in 05 and was soooooo fu***ng impressed-u r a genius. My sister thinks ur weird and even though i sort of agree, i still think u r awsome-kEEP IT UP.
Hey hey tim, the donut shop that I work at (Puffin Fresh Whitfords City, Perth) just started distributing Canvas Bags. Well not canvas as such, but those big reusable hard plasticy ones. I’m not too sure what they’re actually made of, but I’m very glad, because I was previously getting told off by my boss for not offering customers plastic bags to put their multiple donuts in. ‘It can’t be that hard to just *carry* them, guys, Do it for the environment.’ But apparently there’s no room for environmental friendliness in the world of donut retail.
Well g2g, I’m off to work :D
was the photographer at your radio recording at the drill hall london on the 2 nov which was great fun…loved the song about pigs very funny,hope to catch a show at the duchess got some great shots for the bbc too!!!!
To Blake:
I really meant that i dont think
We get circumsised
You get circumsised
Why not get circumsised togethor would sound as good as.
We dont eat pigs etc.
Maybe i was wrong…
Your music has been with me through some tough times in America. I am a Black woman. I don’t have much hope for changing my stars. But hearing your excellent voice rock n rolling my troubles away… at least for a day… keeps me sane. I know you do the same for millions around the world. It was my birthday a few days ago. I turned 46. I hope to see you live again before I reach 50. I promised my niece (she’s always challenging me) that I would chase one dream this year. I hope I don’t sound too weird when I say, I want to sit in that future audience of Minchin fans and scream my head off for you again. My humble dream. Much love from Portland, Oregon USA.
Thanks for the positive in this sea of controversy. I liked your message so much I bought the book!
Hi Tim. Mike from Tampa here. Once you hit 70, you start thinking of things you’d like to do while you still can. My daughter and I saw your NYC TM & his Piano and London Songs the World Will Never Hear shows. Hard to to top that. Then it hit me. Dream big! Would you consider bringing back your Royal Albert Hall Orchestra show? I’m a tennis player. Your NYC and London shows coincided with the US Open and Wimbledon. It was much easier selling going across the pond to my velp, if I also got to attend one of the majors. Thanks. Mike
I’m thankful you came to Toowoomba. Watching real people with really amazing talent was a blast of fresh air, blowing away the junk that builds up from scrolling. Phew, you came in time. Thanks again xxxx
Dearest Tim, I just wanted to post a thank you / congratulations, to you and your team on the end of your tour; the gig in Toowoomba was the perfect finale! Thank you for sharing your new work with us tonight, we could all see what it meant to you, although I did have a pretty good view of your celebratory Hi-5 during the next number. I am just hoping that tonight you felt the love of an entire generation of students, from one of those special tax exempt organisations, here in Toowoomba. Starting them with ‘Storm’ in the middle years Philosophy elective, and always ending with your UWA speech for the Yr 12’s…I’m not saying that you are a ‘tool’, but you know what? You were a great tool! Someone, whose intelligence and wit opened the eyes of a generation, and more importantly, gave hope to those who thought, or were at a minimum, interested in thinking… Love your work – its importance simply can’t be measured!
Hi Tim, I was listening to White Wine in the Sun again today. It pops up in my social media memories all the time because I’ve shared it so much over the years. My Dad really loved Christmas — he loved having everyone around him. He passed away in 2019, on the 17th of December, at 80 years of age. He just wanted to make it to one more Christmas. Upright came out that same month. The song Carry You, and the series itself, absolutely broke me… but somehow carried me through as well. I don’t think I really grieved in the way I expected to until this year. Suddenly, it’s hitting me like a train.I really miss him. This Christmas it will be just my Mum and me. I’m towing my little 1986 Viscount caravan up to the lake at Wooroonook, Victoria, to try to make something meaningful of the day for her. She’s 81 now and struggling to get around. My brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew, and even my sons won’t be there. It’s going to be a hard one. Christmas just doesn’t bring me joy anymore. But still, I’ll sip white wine in the sun, think of my Dad, and try to make a happy memory with Mum — because I know her time is drawing close too. I just wanted to say thank you. Your music has a way of touching people at their deepest places, and these songs have been a part of my healing more than you could know. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your family and I hope you keep writing the kind of music that reaches people when they need it most. Thank you ~ Megan xo
Dear Tim. We went to your concert in Canberra tonight. We have to drive 2 +1/2 hours and stay overnight. It was very well worth that effort. There were many moments that made us laugh and cry and think deeply about my life and where to from here. We are in our senior years and enjoyed it all immensely. We have followed your career from the beginning and as rusted on nerds will continue to do so. I saw Matilda the musical live in Sydney and enjoyed that very much. Would love to see Groundhog if it comes our way. Thanks again for all the music and the chat. Loved it all. Love to you and your family. Coral
I saw your show in Brisbane on Friday with my partner. I have never seen a crowd so obedient to putting their phones down. We all desperately wanted to photograph the real life Tim Minchin for ourselves. Many took the sneaky blurry shots that will forever be the bragging point over Christmas dinner. The recovery from accidentally entertaining the comedian in the crowd, to the perfectly balanced sound was amazing. Thank you for giving us almost an hour of extra entertainment. Absolutely worth it. I’m so glad I saw this before seeing Metallica tickets. It would have been a hard choice. Probably would have still chosen you. This is a big tick on my life bucket list.
Hi Tim. Mike from Tampa here. My daughter and I loved yer show at the Apollo. Matilda at Cambridge there’s… no words. The London sites and a day at Wimbledon after 7 hours on the que. Could’ve been perfect, butt…You didn’t do Airport Piano, so this is all your fault. I had to do it. I’m a 70, mediocre singer, though energetic and enthusiastic. I sang Airport Piano at Karaoke last night. Sounds ok but… I live in a nudist resort. My 70 y/o 140lb nekid scrawny bod singing my favorite song. I’d include a vid, except cameras are not allowed…
Hi. I just wanted to say. I’m finally listening to “Time Machine” (I was going to do it sooner, but it felt so weird to do so right after Tom died. I felt like I had to listen to him for awhile first). And I got to The Song of The Masochocist… and broke down crying. When “Apart Together” came out it was not a good time. For anyone really. I’m in the US and it was just. SO BAD. And then that album came out and I listened on repeat. And it made things better. I would just lay in bed as it felt like we were in the 10th, 11th, 12th month of the apocalypse and would cry as songs like “The Absence of You” comforted me against the absence of the WORLD. Because that was it, the whole WORLD was a hole and it was missing and everything was horrible. And “Apart Together” was what kept ME together. And listening to “Time Machine”, 4 tracks in, and I broke down sobbing because I had somehow forgotten just how much hearing your music when I’m in a dark place, like I am again, can just mend me and make it ok. Even for a little bit. And I had always hoped someday I could tell you that in person but, I’m an American, nope, so here I am. Anyway, thanks. For putting this box here and for making all the music you do. I’ve been listening for a long time, and you’ve gotten me through so much. Thank you for everything.
This is silly because I don’t really think you will read it in person but I still want to say Thank you for saving my marriage! We’ve been through a lot and there are so many times I’ve just wanted to walk away from everything. It took me a long time to discover you (since I live in Sweden where “everyone” says “Heh, Tim who?”) but the two first songs I heard were White wine in the sun (which reminded me of the importance of family) and Not perfect (which reminded me that I am pretty nice and can stand myself). Your rock ‘n’ roll nerding makes me happy and your love songs make me sad and happy at the same time and I confess the huuuuge confirmation biases ? My 50th birthday was coming up and I felt trapped, old and unloved. I thought about spending it in Paris all by myself. Then you unveiled your UK tour! Bam! I bought tickets to Edinburgh and told my husband that he could come with me if he promised to try to understand WHY I really had to go and he was not allowed ruin it! He prepared by listening to the songs and our kids gave him “clues and keys to mummy” and he nailed them all. I haven’t felt so loved in years! And to be there seeing and hearing you live, sharing tears of laughter and touched hearts, feeling his eyes on me when I was ALIVE for the first time in years and holding his hand to all the lovesongs (including the boobs ?)… yes, you saved us. Thank you ??
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July 2007
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Dear Tim,
I’m an American (Christian) who has lived and worked in the Middle East for some years. I visited the UK this summer and took in your show. It was quite uncanny, the way your monologue zoomed in on the very topic we had discussed on the way to the auditorium.
My first response to your “Palestinian Peace Anthem” was, “He’s oversimplifying the problem.” On second thought, I decided I liked your approach. Peace has to start somewhere, and it has to be experienced at the person-to-person level before it can percolate up into government. As you say, the major religions have more similarities than differences.
It might interest you to visit the website of Machsom Watch, the Israeli women’s volunteer organization monitoring the IDF checkpoints in the Occupied Territories. The BBC website also has much information on the suffering of ordinary Palestinian families who just want to get on with their work and school and family lives. Israel continues to expand into Palestinian land, especially with the concrete wall that is still being built. Their checkpoints – most controlling movement within Palestine, few controlling access into Israel itself — are choking the life out of Palestine and preventing kids from going to school, patients from getting to hospital, employees from getting to work, food from reaching market, etc. Many Palestinians are without electricity or clean water. More than half live on less than $2.00 US per day. They are a people deprived of hope.
I know many Palestinian refugees working away from home, and they would all tell you, “This conflict isn’t about religious differences. We don’t accept the occupation, the hardships or the humiliations we are subjected to daily. We don’t accept that Israel takes away more of our land every day.” My Palestinian neighbor lost his elderly father, who was struck by radioactive debris from an IDF rocket, then sickened and died of a fast-growing cancer. It’s a wonder that my neighbor is even willing to talk to me, being as I’m from the country which supplies the IDF with weapons. But he’s a nice man, with a lovely wife and sweet kids. I find them good neighbors, there are many ordinary Palestinians just like them, and I’d love it if they could go home safely one day. Please don’t judge all Palestinians by Hamas.
We loved your show. Thanks for making people laugh while making them think. Thanks for promoting peace. All the best.
Hey there, very nice to hear from you Angel.
I agree, there’s no doubt at all that i’m oversimplifying the problem! I guess the comedy of the piece comes from the seriousness of the stated intent (to solve the conflict with a “peace anthem”) and the sincerity of the music juxtaposed with the ridiculous simplicity of the chorus. It’s the sacrilege that makes people laugh: the audacity of offering such a big problem such a pathetically small solution.
However – as you noted – on another level, i am making a statement about religion and the fact that Judaism and Islam share an Abrahamic origin – thus adding to the absurdity of fighting. And although you are right – i also have the experience that both Israelis and Palestinians will insist it is not a religious fight – you must agree that the origins of the conflict are religious – the only reason the land is under such bitter dispute is because both groups at some point thought (or think) they are a chosen people.
I certainly don’t have the knowledge nor investment to have any bias toward either Israel or Palestine – one sympathises with all people who suffer loss in any conflict. Obviously Hamas is a problem, as they are fighting for an Islamic state, which is such a fundamentally flawed idea. Which brings me to my rant:
Religious people generally claim that religion is a benign force, corrupted every now and then by a radical minority. But in my view, the very philosophy of eschewing the pursuit of knowledge and human understanding and instead seeking moral guidance from an ancient mythology is fundamentally problematic. There have been good Christians and bad Christians in history just as there have been good and bad Muslims, good and bad Jews and good and bad atheists. However, as far as I’m concerned, if you promote belief in archaic doctrine, you have to accept the inevitable eventuality that some people will believe this doctrine to such an extent that they will want to kill and die for their shot at posthumous paradise… or their bit of Zion while they’re still kickin’. Or at least that they will use God to justify actions beyond generally accepted morality.
At some point, hopefully before mankind destroys itself, there will surely be a time when we realise that morality is a human instinct, that all people share the same desires, and that this freaky, lucky, fleeting life of ours should be lived with love and compassion, because there aint nothing waiting for us after lights-out.
… And that eating pig is a decision you should base on your feelings about animal cruelty, not on some obtuse reference by some ill-educated, superstitious, millennia-old self-proclaimed “messenger of God”.
I don’t know what would happen in Palestine if God wasn’t involved. I suppose it’s a hypothetical beyond imagination.
And that’s what I’m trying to say in the Pigs song. It’s a bit of a stretch huh?!
Thanks so much for coming to my show – it’s very interesting to read of your experiences. And many thanks for the link to Machsom Watch – amazing people.
peas.
tx
Wow, Tim left a message! I won’t pretend that I completely followed everything you said, it seems my understanding of religion, politics and big words can sometimes be lacking, but you have good points.
D’ya fancy nudging Gordon Brown out the way and sorting out our country for us? No? Shame.
Hi Tim,
My husband and I love your brand of musical comedy. I’d love to see you live in Brissy some time soon. Might nudge the old man to take his wondiferous wife for a night out!
We watch Spicks and Specks religiously and laughed ourselves sore at your songs written specially for Adam Hill and Alan Brough!
Keep making us laugh!
Cheers!
Sandy
Cool…
yay for tim messages..!!!
p.s. what happened to the Tim blogs which give us regualr updates on what tim has been up to etc…???
Alex, They’re at: http://www.timminchin.com/blog/
AKA ‘News And Guest Comments’, which is listed over there *points*
Anyway, Hullo Tim! ^_^
I have a surprise for you XD And no, it’s not anything weird. Well, it is…but, uh. Tisn’t *weird* weird =P
You poor man, we’re in front row again.
x
i know where they are… i just meant that i wanted more up-to-date ones…. its been months since we got one..its very sad!!!!!!!!!! :'(
lalalalala…i get to brag because i made Tim’s myspace display picture… :D
well thats all for now..
bye
xo
Sorry :(
Took my other half to see you in Exeter (after seeing you for 3 minutes on the BBC Breakfast Show). Amazing! Please do some more shows in England soon.
Hello Timmy,
The Red Witch is still very, very sick. And at work. Funny. A sick person talking about private health insurance to upper middle-class wealthy, healthy people. Who’d thunk it?
I’m thinking of bunking off tomorrow. I can’t take this I’m dying. Hope the shows are going well. Hope you and Violet aren’t sick any more.
I had pig bits in my lunch today.
Lots of love
trw xxxxxx
I hope when trw says she had pig bits she doesn’t mean pigs ‘bits’…. as in… the pigs ‘toilet bits’.
That would be catastrophic. Well, not really… just a little bit yucky.
Hi to Tim and all the other Minchinites out there! Just showing some love and support from San Francisco, USA! Hope everyone is well! :D
wow the american fans are growing and growing! its exciting. and tim left a message.. how exciting. it had big words. but very enlightening. i just summed the song up as “ironic” but i think yours is slightly more detailed and intelligent and…correct.
tim blogs are nice. more would be nicer.
hope everyone is well. espessially TRW is seems. poor thing.
love lousie xoxo
I was very impressed by the length of tims reply to Angel. If i had been tim i probably would have just said something like “don’t you get it?” but tim came out with a detailed explanation. That is why i love him:) He is nice and writes well. The fact that he is hilarious helps also
My juvenile mind makes me edit Smoky’s post so that it reads:
“I was very impressed by the length of Tim. That is why I love him”
Yes I’m bored and should be in bed. Hi Tim :)
MAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol *Sarah* that was funny….Tim should put something like that in one of his songs!!
Hi Tim..!! =D
If he does then he’d better give me full credit ;)
you should expect no less!!!!!!!
Sorry :(
should smoky get credit to maybe??
im very excited about the new tim blog. about damn time!! thanks.