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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…
May 2008
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new dates…:) but still no irish dates….:'(
tim! pleeeeease play in Ireland!!
hello, dear tim. your site is very pretty on this phone, but i cannot use capital letters. aw well. the font is nice colours. i will see you when you are back in melbourne, or when i win tattslotto and i can fly to see you and all the other wonderful things in the uk. i doubt that will happen, though. so see you in melbourne – maybe at the miff, if you’re there and i can get in. i hope you and your girls are well. xoxox
i wish i could come and see you at the bloomsbury i begged i pleaded i cried but i just havent got the money to stay in london but please please please play in the north of england near newcastle i can probably put in a good word for you at the journal tyne theater but somewhere smaller would be cool
you r so rock
u r so sxc
Hi Tim,
Your website is a bit special. I like it. Just like I like you. But obviously not enough to stalk your every move and get your new stuff as every time I see anything of yours these days – it is the stuff I have seen before. Is it me? Am I living in 2004, with my penchent for 80s rehashed fashion and my bleached blonde hair? Are you writing new stuff? Or are you using those Overseas markets to test it on? OR am I just retarded and am yet to come accross it in Oz?
Anyway, I wish you would write some new songs..but what would you write about? Maybe the satire has run out in this world, only leaving us to laugh nervously at the state we are all in. In an uncomfortable way.
Bugger. Please prove me worng and write a new funny song. And don’t get shirty at me for writing this to you – you got your self into this mess. I took the easy option of working in an office meaning I don’t have a special website with my name on it.
alas…hope to see some new, witty, material. songs, puppets or something soon. Because we all like you because you can do all that and we can’t.
Josie
I had a dream about you, ‘t was nice…
Cooooooooooooool Site
Hey Tim
Your ‘…giddying events’ email was an entertaining, and yet informative read and it reminded me to gently request another News blog please with your musings about your recent adventures in New York or if you prefer your views on window box gardening.
So if you need any more distractions from the pressing business of writing a new show just blame those of us who love the way you write and tap away on that keyboard.
Incidentally have you considered a song explaining String Theory?
And no-one writes songs about insects any more…or maybe ever – so there’s a gap in the market isn’t there? The stick insect stomp perhaps?
…no? …*sigh*… Good job the new songs are your department then – I’ll stick to admiration and appreciation.
Love your work
Shell xx
COME TO AUSTRALIA PLEASE!!!!!!
I heard this today and thought of you:
Critical thinkers are like good colleges. Our minds are open, but the admission standards are high.
Saw you in Brighton a few hours ago, think you fab, am completely in love now haha. I think you should be more famous – sort it out!
Tim:
You are a great musician and hilarious comedian!
I love you Australians, with your blond hair and blue eyes and high foreheads and “screw-it” senses of humor and way-better-than-British accents. And, I would bring you cookies… but I do not have access to the means to travel from my home in Dallas, Texas to yours. Life is just like that.
You rock, my friend! I hope I get the opportunity to see you live before I die. That would be nice. Keep it up!
~Melissa
Just wanted to pop in and remind you that you’re brilliant, incase that isn’t made abundantly clear to you on a daily basis.
Kudos, keep it up and all that sort of thing. I hope to see you live in the not terribly distant future.
And if you’re ever in need of cookies, I make some pretty delicious ones if I do say so.
hello.
i was just thinking..
if you ever have some free time (doubt it),
you should come play a gig in Tassie, Australia.
We are very nice people, with a decent sense of humour,
so no awkward silences in the audience from us :)
Saw you in Brighton on the 9th of May- you were so good, very funny,
hope to catch another show soon :)
http://advanceloan.blogono.com
Joining the choirs of people calling on you to return to Australia, in particular Melbourne. Please please please do so soon.
I’ve downloaded much music here. Thanks so much to you!
I’ve just watched So Live. You are a comedy genius. No, just make that genius with a comedic twist. Are you doing the Edinburgh Festival this year?
Very disappointed we didn’t see you at the Adelaide fringe this year! Hoping you get there in 09. Loved your last show!
tim was lucky enough to move in next door to me and mine few years back. He can hold hand stands for ages. Saw him live on stage with bill bailey, and he blew the great man off stage. Seriously with one breath through a massive straw. He’s got a proper smart fridge freezer and loves to swing pianos through windows while raising his voice at the end of sentences.. He’s such a top bloke, Talented but down to earth, figdety but doesn’t believe in child birth and is blessedwith a beautiful family, smart shoes weird eyes and a good friend. God i’d be jealous if i wasn’t welsh.
So excited to be coming to see you at the Bloomsbury tonight and introducing your comic genius to a few of my friends – all of whom have been made to watch your dvd and also declared you to be a legend (got my friend to bring it over from Australia when she came to visit). I even listened to your music while I was in labour last month – got some laughs in the delivery room I can tell you. Your show is my boyfriend and my first major night out together since our daughter was born (not including a couple of brief much-needed drinks snatched last Saturday night) and is in celebration of my bday, so you can imagine how overexcited I am. Yours with much anticipation. Have a great show!
WooHoo! I get to see you tomorrow night!
I’m a Melbournian just moved to The Netherlands, far far away from home, but closer to you Tim! See you on the 20th J Mum’s posted my original copy of So Live so I might have the chance of getting it signed. I thought you might not appreciate signing the burnt copy I brought with me. Good luck with the show.
Just got back from the DVD Recording at the Bloomsbury Theatre (19th May 2008) and you were amazing! I can’t wait until the DVD comes out.
I feel obliged to follow suit and concure that last night at the Bloomsbury freaking rocked. You were brilliant! And thank you so much for playing “Not Perfect” at the end. That pretty much made the show the best thing I’ve seen and heard out of all of the the things I’ve seen and heard.. Congratulations on being so great.
lovely lovely Tim! saw u at the bloomsbury last night! you were freeking amazing! im still singing the songs!! haha!! i waited and waited for angry (feet) and i have to say it was awesome, even with the little mistake between!! cant wait for the dvd to come out! u should defo come to maidstone!!! or Chatham!!!! pwease!!!! :D
love love
xx
Great show last night Tim at the bloomsbury! Can’t wait to see the DVD. One thing though why do you swear when you can play piano?! Already ordered my tickets to see you there in October!
hahaha – I bet you’re tired of seeing me all over the place =P
Tim – whilst the Girly Giggle Machine of High Wycombe is rejoicing that you are returning to our humble town, we are all most disappointed because we’ll all be away at University when you grace The People’s Republic of Wycombe with your Awesomeness.
We shall all, however, endeavour to giggle at another show somewhere else in the country.
The Girly Giggle Machine.
No not Ireland come to Australia, arn’t the English getting sick of you yet, come back home and while you’re at it go on Spicks and Specks again Woo
Kate is right you know, whilst I’m glad your becoming famous, it seems it’s rather difficult to see you, give that were in Australia. How about this, if you come here, I will give you cookies. I will even make sure they’re at that fresh, warm stage. I hope you like choc-chip.
hey tim. when i come to see you in october il be bringin my friends….and i may even bring you a little present….
cya then
xxx
Saw you @ Bloomsbury-brought the kids, TV people a chatty pain-but you were fun! The old man liked the sexy Jesus bit?! Keep doing it Tim X
I love your stuff, i think its amazing and absolutely hilarious, have seen you twice and can’t wait till you come to cardiff in october!!!will be awesome!!!
See Now I Feel Guilty For Not Having Cookies…Oh Well, Maybe Next Time. I’ve Been Sat Here For The Last Hour Just Listning To Your Songs…Not In A Stalkerish Way Just Admiring Your Talent. So Yea This Isn’t Gramatically Correct But I Like My Capital Letters. Hopeing To Come And See You Perform In October…I Shall Remeber Cookies.
Tim,
I’d like to preface this message with a sentence using words like “inundate” and “insidious” and “hunchbacked leper” before I dissolve into giddy, unintelligible fawning. That was it, thanks.
Anyhoo, I just wanted to let you know that listening to the short youtube clips of your work has given me this terrible compulsion to contact you and inform you that you have more talent in your little toe than most people could ever conceive of (along with a rather nasty rash, but that’s probably unrelated).
Moving right along, myself and a friend were thinking of heading up to London next summer (to steal Stephen Fry, naturally), and were wondering if we could you up on your offer to stop by and bring you some cookies (myself, I make a mean brownie/cookie concoction, but whatever’s your pleasure).
Cheers,
Daniel.
P.S. This is what the alphabet would look like if Q and R were taken out.
P.P.S. Please join the relief effort to bring comedy to Canada, we appreciate your donations to the Montreal comedy festival, but we know with a full-fledged tour of the country you could really, you know, make a difference–especially after Stephen Harper was elected prime minister–please, think of the poor, poor, humourless children.
P.P.P.S. If you happen to know where we could get in touch with Mr. Fry, that would be very cool (his agent stopped talking with us ever since we made our intentions for purloining him apparent).
P.P.P.P.S. Four “post”s, new high score!
Tim’s little toe,
No, but seriously, you’re awesome, if you’re ever in Toronto while Tim’s off touring and need somewhere to stay, feel free to pop by–it’s not much but I’ve got a spare matchbox for you to sleep in,
With the utmost admiration for all you do, mate,
Daniel.
Hey Tim, I’m from a tiny little town in Australia…you probably haven’t heard of it…it’s called Adelaide. Anyway, I was – how shall we put it? – rather frustrated when you didn’t do the fringe this year but I managed to keep my hopes up because I was going to go to London in April. Hey, I thought, Tim lives in London. I’ll bet I can see him when I am there, maybe bake him some awesome cookies. But unfortunately you happened to be far away in the USA. I mean, how unlucky can a person be??? So, this is just me wondering if you will ever play in Adelaide? I know there’s not much incentive to come here but just think, if you do, you’ll get some awesome triple choc-chip cookies!
Hey Tim, do you ever come to Manchester? I looked at the dates but i couldn’t see any. Come down, you look like my friend =p.
Hey Tim Tims, must all the shows at the Edinburgh Fringe be so late?
Could you possible squeeze in an earlier show for your younger fans?
xx