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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…
July 2008
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I think someone loves you. Personally though, I think you’re overrated (hey, someone has to keep your rockstar ego in check).
Come to Dublin. Please and thank you.
Don’t make me come over there……… ahhh playing hard to get, I see …. ok, I’ll come and see you on 13 July but one good turn deserves another, come to Dublin (it’d be rude not to)!!!!!
hi
Hey Tim!
I’ve just heard your song “Not perfect”. It was beautiful.
I’m hoping for more of your philosophical songs. They make me think :D
Other than that i would like to be call you a rock star.
Hey Tim, Ive just bought tickets to come and see youre show on the saturday night at the soho theatre, I absolutely cannot wait! I saw you in maidstone last year and thought it was the funniest thing ive ever seen! AND I will be taking along a newcomer to you, Ive played him a few songs and he now loves you too! Hope youre all cool and everything is going well, cannot wait to hear the new stuff youre writing! Cheers dude, see ya saturday the 26th!!!!
Ok, so when will you visit this end of the world? I’m a poor student from Scandinavia who won’t be able to rush down to Australia to see any shows. I can’t get enough of your music. You’re awesome behind the piano and your lyrics are thoughtful, sarcastic and hilarious at the same time, even the short ones!
Would love to be able to hear you in person (not to mention get my hands piano notes). Keep up the good job.
Your father is one of the nicest doctors I’ve ever worked for.
Tim Minchin! I have just recently discovered you genius…I am very sad to say. I’m sad because I was studying in East Sussex, England (Herstmonceux Castle)for a year and I would have showed up to EVERY show if you were there when I was/had I known about you! I am an Art History major/Music minor…and you inspire me. Uhm…yea… you kinda rock my socks. Come to Ontario! Next time I’m back in jolly ol’ England I will make sure to see you live which would blowww my mindddd! Hopefully you’ll play in the O2 soon! I saw the Smashing Pumpkins there. Great stuff… anyways. LOVE your stuff.
“Get a haircut, son!”
That’s what my Dad used to yell out to the hippies boys walking down the street as we drove by (back in the late ’60’s – early ’70’s)
I’m certain Dad meant that as good advise.
His response to seeing a photo of you with Tori: priceless.
Hmph. I like your rock & roll hair.
I saw you on a rerun of the Sideshow last week (cos ABC2 is the coolest thing…since…well, anything) and think you’re awesome! Love your stuff, keep up the good work :)
Hey!
I saw you at the charity gig last night. The whole night was amazing and I think you closing the show was great.
Already got my ticket to see you on the 25th! I think you’ll start recognising me soon, seeing as I’m seeing you twice this month.. saw you in may and also seeing you in october! ^__^
You’re kind of a genius, so I HAVE to see you every chance I get. :D
You make me giggle till I shit myself
Who do you feel pleadingly…?
Tim, I saw Elton John at Doncaster Rovers Football Stadium on Saturday. I could *walk* there. (Oh, he was performing, not watching pre-season friendlies or something.) I wanted to enjoy a big sing-a-long to Tiny Dancer but he played it really near the beginning when people weren’t into it. Damn him. Good show, but not as good as our Ben obviously.
Hope you enjoyed the Night of Jos thing, and that the warm-ups in London go really well :)
See you in Edinburgh x
Now I look odd…
I’m from New Zealand. Please come here and eat some fush and chups with me. Thanks.
P.S If you want you could just come and do a show. I don’t want to put pressure on you to eat a meal with me. We don’t know each other and I think it would be awkward.
I’m in year 12, Austrailia. My 3rd last assesment in Senior English is to analyze a Modern Song and relate it to a social issue.
I asked if I could do Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins (social relevance = homosexuality and religion), but my teacher frowned excessively at me and advised me not to :P
So instead I’m doing Take Your Canvas Bags (to the Supermarket) [environmentalism] and the Peace Anthem for the Palestines [current conflict in Israel and Palestine] – that is, if it’s okay with you?
Cheers, and keep on singing and playing. . . please?
So the message below was left by a friend who incidentally told me that you sent her an email, and I was just wondering… seeing as I am a huge fan (but not in a stalker way) if you could send me an email. That would make my day. Probably not yours… :D And if you didn’t send her an email then she is a moleface. HeHe
Ooo I was also going to analyse your songs for my assignment however I was advised Bob Dylan was a wiser choice.
Loved the show on 13th. You were brilliant. Please come to Dublin….. two songs isn’t enough!
im with the last comment…please please please come to dublin!:)
Just wanted to drop a note because I’ve just got tickets to see you in Aberdeen in October. It usually takes a while for people to get up this far North, but it is MUCH, MUCH appreciated when they make the effort!!
Anyway, looking forward to it enormously. I actually bought them thinking it would only be songs I’ve already heard, (and didn’t care about that in the slightest) but having a peek around the site I’ve seen mention of some new material- even better! Bye!
Thanks for Ealing, lovely stuff. I only wish we could have had more of it. Oh, and I think I’d really like your wife. :) I guess there’s no point in asking you to do a gig in Finland – and no harm in asking anyway…
you make piano and gramma cool, i’d pee in a hippo for you any day. xoxoxoxoxo
I saw you at latitude
you were the BEST act i saw
i think you were acctually amazing.
The racist song had me in tears and ive been singing it ever since.
You’re truely WONDERFUL!
i would do anything to see you again!!
Any chance you’ll be coming over to Canada anytime?
I saw you at Latitude this year and you were FANTASTIC!! I’m now back at work and still singing your songs – much to the annoyance of everyone around me!! Off to buy tickets to see you in October now!!
.x.
Good god you made Latitude 08 for me Tim. The wittiest, most original comedian I’ve ever seen. We Love Jesus, Hate Faggots (!)and will go no where near a plastic bag ever again. Ha ha dee har har!
(Not too bad on the old ivories too!)
I also saw you at Latitude. It was bloody excellent. I’ll be seeing you in Portsmouth in October, man. The critic song was my particular highlight.
HI TIM SAW YOU AT LEEDS CARLING FES O7 YOU WERE FUCKING CLASS BEST THING ALL WEEKEND BETTER THAN THE CHILL PEPPERS RAROR LIGHT I JUST BOUGHT TICKETS FOR YOUR DURHAM GIG UP NORTH ON THE 24-10-2008 CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU AGAIN YOU WERE TOP NOTCH HOPE EVERYTING IS GOOD KEEP A HOLD BIG LAD SEE YOU IN DURHAM I BUY YOU A PINT CHEERS LITTLE STEVE
I would also like to know if you’re coming to Canada – it would be a great idea!
Plus, we secretly love it when you make jokes at our expense…we’re used to it!
I love you Tim, you’re hilarious!! I’ve got loads of your songs on my Ipod. I want a t-shirt…. I work in a supermarket and almost got fired for harassing the customers by singing “…take your canvas bags when you go to the supermarket! don’t use plastics bags when you know the world can take it…” at a woman who asked me for a plastic bag (AFTER I offered her a canvas bag) when she forgot to bring her shopping bags with her! Oh, *sigh*…
Please tour Ireland…..
PLEASE!!
Hey Tim
I saw you at Latitude Festival and you honestly were the funniest person i’ve ever met. I didnt stop laughing from the moment you came on stage and me and my mates are still singing your song Racist…..only a ginger can call another ginger ginger……..pure genious
Come back again next year!
Hi Tim,
Love your work! hope to be able to come see you live when your in Australia next.
Just one small suggestion… COME TO HULL!!
LOVE YOU WORK DUDE!!!
Have just purchased your So Live DVD for my daughters 16th birthday (deemed by some as very inappropriate!) The whole family can’t stop watching it. You are a F**k**g ledgend. We want more, more, more. Just one suggestion, you should play Canvas Bags on a big screen in Woolworths – You could change the world!! On Ya Tim.
You are so talented, with wit that I fear so many just don’t get. I appreciate you so much more for it!!! I am so glad you are finally getting the recognition you deserve! Oh, and you are sooo RoCk!!!
Saw you at Latitude you were so hilarious =) I want a video of the ginger song tho haha! that was the best! Will see you again as soon as possible =)
Hey Tim, Coming to see you tommorow night at the Soho Theatre…CANT WAIT! Ive been going on about it to everyone for at least a month now, planning to come and see you in Canterbury later this year too, and I saw you in Maidstone last year, I think you’re absolutely fantastic and if you get a chance to read this before the show PLEASE play Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins, its mine and my friends favorite song of yours! Keep up the great work, Rick x
Just thought I’d add to your rather well educated list of fans below with my less educated amazement at your talent. You really make me laugh, truely, which I thought was easy until I actually felt the side crunching ache that your lyrics give me. I’ll stop with the compliments so you don’t get any bigger headed ;) but I totally love your views on religion. Don’t quite agree in places, but they are fantastic, just imagining the looks on the faces of the average person hearing them makes me laugh pretty damn hard.
Keep going, and I’ll see in the West End Centre on the 8th Oct. =]
Just saw the film “Rock and Roll Geek” – it was fantastic. Thank you so much for letting us into your life, I hope you and your wife and your little one are all well and happy :)One very inspired new fan
and i got the name wrong *blush* “nerd” not “geek”
I too have just seen the MIFF screening of Rock ‘n’ Roll Geek and loved it -the whole audience gave it a huge round of applause at the end (and a few spontaneous ones throughout). It must have been quite difficult to have certain parts and times of your life filmed – however it was a wonderful insight into the challenges of making it – thanks to Rhian for a great film and Tim and Sarah for sharing their life (and the hair – wow what a difference). Tim – you deserve your success – the only downside for this fan is you don’t get back to Australia enough.
I just saw Rock n Roll Nerd, and it is a brilliant doco, well executed and very insightful. Its a shame that Melbourne lost such a brilliant talent to the UK. We are meant the have a strong Arts culture, but more and more I hear stories of brilliant home grown talent having to pack up bags because they’re aren’t recognised here. Congratulations Tim, for not giving up on what you love. You are a brilliant artist, can’t wait to see you when your back in Melbourne.
Hi Tim – Rock n Roll Nerd was brilliant. Thanks for letting Rhian record your exciting and emotional journey over the last few years. It’s fantastic to see that not just talent, but also hard work and a great degree of risk has finally and deservedly paid off. I am eternally grateful that you didn’t end up passing on your dreams and settle into a boring old day job. Can’t wait to see you again in Melbourne!
I like your hair. ;)
And your music!
Tim! Oh my gosh! I saw Rock and roll nerd last night. BEST documentary ever.
I loved it and know all the lyrics to all your songs and I’m only 14. :)
love you :)
So, the Edinburgh run starts tonight! (Kinda…) All the best sir, can’t wait to get up there x
I live in Swanbourne WA (have actually met your parents at Chrissy drinks in the neighbourhood a couple of years back, and saw you at His Maj last April – FANTASTIC show). I thought the article you wrote for The West on the Heath Ledger theatre issue was absolutely brilliant. Much as I adored Heath, I must admit to having some doubts as to whether it was an appropriate decision due to his non-theatrical background – you totally convinced me that it was! In my opinion you and Heath are the two most-talented performers our little city has ever produced. Hope you’re in for the long haul.
Heya,
I caught your show yesterday at the Edinburgh Preview yesterday.
I really enjoyed it. It was pretty much on track with your earlier stuff.
PREVIEW! No worries about the bloopers, was funny as well.
Heavier on religion this time (than usual)(may be some past trauma there, or are you sponsoring Dr. Richard Dawson??).
I’m writing to Olana now. She’s a ginge too (sorry..)that interviewed you at Reading I believe. She said she appreciated ‘Racist’. No doubt it long needed to be said.
Big fan! Enjoy the Fringe if you can, but you’ve no doubt been there and done that, all them t-shirts…All the best, Scott
We thought you were brilliant at latitude!!!