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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 ??
…and here is the rest…
February 2008
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Are you inflatable, ‘Hi Boys’? Because that’s the only kind for everyone here.
Hi Tim, saw your show in Edinburgh tonight – fantastic stuff!
And a bloody keyboard is so rock and roll!
Cheers for the laughs!
Tim You were amazing in Edinburgh, the ‘Front Bottom Lady’ Briliant. It was my friend you had up on stage to examine the blood on the piano.
Great night and great show,
Cheers
Jamie
Yo Dude
I don’t think i’ve ever laughed so much as i did watching you at the Edinburgh Queens Hall. Thanks for a brilliant night.
You’re so Rock ‘n’ Roll!
Blood on the keys…..
What, dear, are you doing up there???
You were virgin territory for me until last night – fingering your M*
m had me bent over & in tears! Love belly laughing, I need more, can’t get enough… merhcandise here I come…
Inflatable you, the Universe, audience bonding, front bottoms and blood on the keys. We would say that was money well spent, thank you Mr Minchin.
Sides are a bit sore today like :)
Hello Tim
Hopefully you’ll forgive this puerile/facile observation, but ever since we saw you perform at the mighty Beck Theatre back in October, I have had the feeling that you reminded of someone else. Now I’m watching Doctor Zhivago and seeing Klaus Kinski declaring that he was the “only free man on this train” has finally answered the nagging question. You appear to be a double for Kostoyed, as played by the manic Klaus in this amazing film. Was this a deliberate modelling, or simply accidental?
Incidentally, we are all big fans of you since that night in West London, and we all are careful to use our canvas bags when we go shopping. Looking forward to the next local-ish gig…
Also, we were disappointed that you were so cruelly edited in the recent Buzzcocks – they gave you so little time, compared to the inconsequential James Lance.
Your time will come.
just have to say ,we’re just back from your show in Glasgow and it was REMARKABLE!!!! DO IT AGAIN TIM ,DO IT AGAIN ?!
HAHAHA i just read that comment below me
I REALLY don’t think Tim looks like Klaus Kinski!
Klaus’ face.. is… well you know. I just don’t think so!
Tim, you were amazing at Edinburgh on Friday! We defied the health and safety people, left our not-great-view seats and sat on the stairs in the dress circle where we had a perfect view! You absoultely brought the house down, everyone loved it! Happy Days! :) xx
holymoley. you are dedicated to making strangers laugh no matter what the cost huh? mentalist! i hope you can walk ok… your edinburgh show was excellent. yepyep.
i feel cookies could be provided purely in the form of get-well-soon-styli goodies, tho grooming people older than myself and getting their home address whilst tempting them with cookies is something i veer away from doing generally speaking. errrr….
hohum.
go easy, o mangled one!
WOO!!! TIM!!! Tour in America!!
Tim, YOU are so cool. Mum wishes she could play piano like you. You are so funny.
Hi Tim, Front-Bottom Girl here (really, it’s me). Just to apologise for the weakness of my somewhat pickled bladder and to let you know how much you rocked and how impressed I am by your superb piano skills and wordsmithery. I am totally converted to the Way of Tim – thank you!!
Hi – saw the show on Friday in Edinburgh and it was as good as ever…but think it is about time for some new material as I can sing the words of Canvas Bags and Inflatable You off by heart since I saw you perform last year down in Exeter and bought the CD…come back soon with some new stuff please!
saw you for the first time at the EDI gig on Friday…amazing! When’re you coming back? hurry back..theres a piano with your name (and dna) on it just waiting…
Buzzy – you’re part of MinchinMythology now. I wasn’t even there and I’ve heard about you :)
Your an inspriration dude, Fucking Rock on!
Do you prefer tasty or cheddar cheese?
And what are your thoughts on the spork? (spoon and fork in one)
Hi Tim. ‘Not Perfect’ made my day today, even through a crappy emotionally bereft pixelly computer screen. And not just for the comedy either- It touched something of the little bit of insecurity lurking underneath all my happy chappy bravado, and if not fixed it, made it a little better. You’re a lot more than just a comedian. Thanks.
I’m thinking of making some cookies on Monday. I just really fancy them recently. I won’t be able to bring them to your house (partly because I don’t know its location, and partly because I just won’t), but I shall eat one in your honour. And then I shall scoff the rest like the greedy pig that I am. Yum yum. x
Hey from a person in South Devon – saw a clip of you in the Handbag website and you are quite beguiling – saw the My country / my body clip and kind of connected with it – in a stilted English way you know – splendid stuff.
More ??? yea if your up for it my good man!
…Is it just me or is there a serious over representaion of ‘sarah’s’ that are tim minchin fans??
Shall we eat some drugged chicken with our shirts on while playing piano because we didn’t learn guitar,
Shall we write songs in third person to seem less self obsessed; but we are,
Should we keep writing songs, that which one day will rock their asses
Should we be icons for the disenfranchised masses
I know it’s crazy, it is almost absurd
I know it’s crazy, but we are Rock and Roll Nerds…
Yes indeed I would like to know where in London you live, as I must live somewhere near you!!!(jumping between somewhere in north london and somewhere in south london).Cookies all round!:D
Well first I must say you have been the shinning beacon of hope in my otherwise very dull day knowing I’m not the only twisted person who shows light on the darker things in life. Anyway loved your review on Donnie Darko and I too hope those Jews get there act together and form peace, honestly how could you not like your neigbors when they refuse to eat a pig aswell?
while listening to ‘Sit’ the other day, something seemed to strike me. who is rob? was he a guy you know or did you make him up? …confused. once again, keep up the great work :)
oh, one more thing. blood on the keys? what, pray tell, have you been doing to yourself? (sorry for the double post, folks)
To Katherine:
Wheredya get Sit from?
I cant find it anywhere!
Please help
Rylando – go to http://www.angry-feet.com/forum/ and ask someone nicely and you should be able to get it…
It’s worth it.
(Hi timmy. Hope that’s ok to mention?)
xxx
hello hello you lovely man! i’m seriously hoping that the dvd you made in sydney works on english computers, because i was at the show it was filmed at. we were travelling, it was our last night in sydney and we went to see you entirely on a whim, ended up being moved from the back of the back to bang in front of the stage gazing with incredulity and admiration and ended up in seizures of laughter. thankyou very very much! hope you do some gigs in england soon, rock on! kxx
Sarah (10th Feb), you’re way right.
It’s not surprising though, since it was a Sarah who started the trend. And no, I’m actually not (entirely) talking about myself here… but rather Tim’s lovely wife :-).
I shall furthermore address myself as Sar (Pronounced much like the first syllable of Sarah except with a slight elongated air sound) on Tim’s website.
Damn me and my bloody common name. There really is some sort of homing instinct towards Tim, built into all those named Sarah. The lunacy of it all.
Tim, I’m proud to see Kent mentioned on your FAQ page, especially since it means that someone other than myself has requested your presence there. I don’t think I ever even requested your presence, I just assumed you’d find yourself there in the end. And you did, you good man.
Lovely!
i wanna know which of the questions on the FAQ page you consider to be frequently asked and which get classed as fucking annoying. :P
heehee
Have I ever told you that I like you? I like you more than I like Kirsty anyway – she cancelled our wedding, the bitch.
Aw, I was hoping to officiate.
(I wasn’t really, I just like the word officiate)
AW
x
Eh! Well, hello…Just a fleeting comment to say you rule! :) I mean, although this comment may be insignificant in itself, one can never feel to happy and give to many compliments!
Have a nice day!
:)
Your son not perfect should be one of the downloads as i can’t get any album where i live and it’s the most anti-depressing song ever thanks Tim.
i heart u.
Ken’s snore was searchingly normal as peaceful steel, this American demi moore nude naked looked like Marilyn Monroe, but acted like a spatter star, uncertainly after ringing on theatrical of her, he could atone her softness, the nude russian porn of her thighs, the perspiring sex stories only in her belly, and the noooooooooooo of her fifth breasts! Me strikingly on the britney spears crotch shot you tube lauging a nap, and behaving at the voices snuffed on my wrists.
Tim/Timothy means ‘honouring God’ and is of Creek origin.
“Tim is magnetic and seductive, He is one of a kind, He has a great objective interest in people, He is capable of outrageous behaviour”…. etc. This is none more so evident in the BRILLIANT Tim Minchin.Your work is amazing because it’s unique and has no bounds. There are no restrictions on you because people have the option of not listening if they don’t want to. I don’t think anyone will ever fully understand you, but they will understand your work, and when it’s all over you’ll be remembered for centuries to come.
I’m a bit slow of the mark, but the FAQ page looks wonderful :)
Aah Timmy. Saw this on the blogs and thought of you :)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,,2255242,00.html
Hic.
Category theory. That’s all I’m saying.
s
xxx
This new site is awesome! Tim for President!
Hello Tim. You’re probably actually the funniest man I think I know.
Maybe you should do a gig in Southampton, its only a small place..but you know :)
x
Mr Tim, saw you last night at the WSPA gig, still have “bears don’t dig on dancing” in my head.. good times, PS I couldn’t remember your name when telling people how funny you are so i described you as a blonde, aussie Robert Smith look-a-like who’s damm good on the piano!
You and Bill should tour together!
Seeing you and Bill Bailey perform together last night was awesome. It was enough to have my two fave comedians at the same venue let alone perform an all new song together. Thanks!
omg i saw you last night- i made all my friends listen to you on my ipod on the train, what a great night!!! thanks!!
Just wanted to say that the WSPA gig was amazing last night! I was chuckling to myself all day remembering ‘Bears don’t dig on dancing’ and rob ince getting attacked by the miniature Bailey. thanks for a great night and good luck with the new york run :-)
Hey, i think ur amazing, ur lyrics are great and ingenious, the songs are catchy and you have an awesome voice, keep up the abslutely amazing work!
I WANT TO BE ON YOU! hehe you are a genius! i ask you very humbly to come to the UK so i can jizz on ur face! please! will bake u cookies and also introduce you to my grandma! shes a lovely whispy hair’d lady i think you may like her! go on you know you want tooooooooo – fucking legend!
You sir, are a musical genius.
I would enjoy it if you would enlighten the enchanted mitten…er…some city in Michigan, perhaps a small town. Of course when Michigan is mentioned most people automatically think “COME TO DETROIT” please, I beg of you, do not, I repeat, do not come to Detroit. However, if that is what it takes for you to come and humble an audience with your “kickassednessesque” well then…I guess Detroit is where you should…ROCK ON!!!
Well. Thanks for your sharp humor, and time consuming music that I deeply enjoy…it provokes the mind.
=]
Ello, Tim! I absolutely lov your music. Not only is it funny but it is really nice to listen to. I would love to go an see you in concert, but I can’t right now… Plus I am not sure if I could control myself… I would be too afraid of throwin my boxers on stage… Thanks Tim, You are a seriously awesome musician. Much love!
I never seen anyone but a relative with my last name. I love the theater. I think it’s great someone with the same last name as me is a star. Peace.