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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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March 2013
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Hi to folks going to Friday night gig!
Well, I just flew in from Vancouver, Canada (the west coast) forTim’s show tonight. I was lucky enough to check tickets, on a whim, just after second show was added. Why not go? Ticket was a steal.Will deal with the plane fare later!
I know this seems a bit extreme, but I am not a “stalker”. Just think that Tim is “genius” and this would probably be my only chance to see him in a small venue, ever, as his career trajectory ,deservedly, grows.
So,look for me, especially ex-pats, as, obviously, I don’t know anyone going tonight. I am a “bottle” ginger, of an age, wearing mostly black, seated, hopefully, near the front.
Got ma JCSuperstar tix, A res at melb tennis centre. Gonna be lookin up Timmy’s nose . Fab Fab Fab.
Bravo
you say what i want to say
thank you
Bravo
you can dance
thank you
Got in to see Tim tonight at “54 Below” (stand-by line), hooray! Thank-you Tim for a great show. From a grateful, content, fellow rebel. With a cause. Lisa Hicks.
Just wanted to say “thank you for your amazing job”. Greetings from Italy :)
Just wanted to say thank you for your amazing job. Greetings from Italy :)
Hi Tim, just to let you know that Downton Primary School (near Salisbury, Wiltshire) will be performing “When I grow up” as one of their pieces in the final of the Barnardo’s Choir of the Year competition at the Barbican tomorrow, March 4th. We also did a school “Downton’s got talent” competition last Friday, which 4 year 3 girls won with their amazing performance of “Revolting Children”. Downton loves Tim Minchin!
Dear Tim,
Just saw some great songs from you on a dutch website and watch many more on youtube. Just need to say, your shows are great! And you really need to go to the netherlands to give us dutchies a show! We will give you not a ten foot cock, but we will give a few hundred virgins!
You’re welcome!
You’re brilliant. Love the lyrics. Just the way it is!
You translate my thinking into fantasticly formulated well thought words. Keep up the good work and please come to Holland
PS. first saw you @ Californication
I’ve just seen the Blu-ray Jesus Christ Superstar and was completely blown away. You were amazing! But everything was perfect.
Simply Amazed! I had never heard of you. I have now shared you with all my friends. What talent what refreshingly new entertainment. Thank you for the tears of laughter and thought provoking intellect. Any chance you will perform in (USA) Seattle, Washington? By the way you perform in Seattle our bakery of 4 generations will supply you with cookies and yes will deliver.
Hi Tim,
Every now and then the electrics on my car go a little crazy, ( battery light stays on, central locking decides not to work) although most of the time they’re fine. Someone said it was the alternator, what do you think?
Keep up the good work by the way your definitely the best new talent around. Brilliant stuff.
“He made me chortle” Phil.
sorry about the ‘your’ which should be ‘you’re’ ( eeeee! and me an English teacher an’ all worramalike!)
I think you’re fucking fantastic. I love your music, and think your incredible and hope one day you go to an area I can actually get to to buy tickets to see you.
Well Tim, we already have our tickets for JC Superstar in Sydney and ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’ with the STC. And now my husband tells me we are going to London in October and he has bought me tickets to “Matilda”!!! I hope this doesn’t count as ‘stalking’, but we are very excited to have these opportunities this year. Look after yourself and don’t wear yourself out! (Sounds like you need to find a different hotel in New York when you return – how on earth did they give you a noisy room when you were there last?….saw your tweet). Take care and stay well
Hey,
I’m a 24year old Aussie living in Toronto, Canada so I can work backstage in theatre; and I just want to thank-you for the your song “White Wine in the Sun”. It’s a real cure for homesickness. The lyrics are beautiful and I can see the story unfold in my mind’s eye. Sometimes hearing an Australian accent can be a precious thing when you’re feeling out of place. ‘White Wine’ is up there on my ‘homesickness cure’ playlist with Peter Allen and the Finn Brothers.
I just figure once in a while songwriters should know what their work means to someone else…
Could Matilda come to Australia soon please??
I agree with KJ. Matilda; GET TO AUSTRALIA!!! Performing “Smell of Rebellion” for a cabaret. It’s so much fun! Please bring it to Australia soon!
A fan of Californication on Showtime, I stumbled across this wacky “excess suceeds best” man of whom I had never heard. Off to IMDb to find out who he is and how I can “get more of him”. Luckily for me he has a 2013 production on Showtime at Royal Albert Hall with the Heritage Symphony Orchestra. So bizarrely (sp?) entertaining with a unique mix of talents. The kind of artist I will buy an airline ticket from Dallas, TX to anywhere just to see him in person. Bold creativity is not dead. Eureka.
From one Tim (probably older than your father) to another:
None of the genres I’ve heard you work in are exactly my supersized cup of espresso, but you’ve brought them alive for me just by touching them. I do recognize when I’m in the presence of a superior life-form. You are, among other things, what Lehrer might have hoped to be, had he not had the misfortune to be born in such puri-tyrannical times. Offhand I can’t think of a better writer, and it is just exceedingly rare to find such capabilities packaged with performing “chops” of equal stature.
Beware of trying to do the impossible, though. It’ll be astounding if even you can salvage Jesus Christ Superstar…there’s just not much to salvage (meow).
Tim, i love you. You are amazingly talented and super good looking but please next year, maybe- just maybe could you have a gig in london in june… Pretty please :) xx
Oh Tim, Tim, Tim. Do you have any idea what your impact is on the world?
You are loved in our household, an age span from 15 to 63.
As I always say, you’re not famous until there is a pumpkin carving of you. You’re the best looking pumpkin I have ever seen.
Tim, do you really read all these messages? I cannot compete with these intellectual fans who write witty, incisive and florid comments, all I can do is tell you I love your work. You have such a gift, to make us think and smile at the same time. I have your dvds to watch, including JCSS and your performance moved me. Do you think you may take on any more acting roles, whether in musical theatre or plays? I see you’re doing R&D are Dead, will that come to the uk or be able to be purchased on DVD I wonder? Anyway, you have too many tweets to ever see ones from me (unless you’re ignoring them?) so would be nice to know you read these occasionally. so much admiration for you Tim xxx
Hey Tim and the web fairies, I know you say to check the calender and what not about dates for gigs but I was just wondering will you ever come to Ireland? Ya know that small country off the UK? There’s some pretty cool people here that would be truely graced by your presence. Reply would be great thanks!
Hi Tim! I have just discovered your music and I find it wonderful! I am an atheist and a skeptic, and I find it distressing to hear people I love subscribing to all kinds of “woo” like homeopathy and auras, etc. Your art is inspiring me to work up the courage to confront these crazy ideas and debunk them. (and hopefully keep my friends.) Thank you for the music!
Hi ! I just sent a letter (with an envelope inside) to PBJ management to get an autographed photo. I didn’t have any Brithish stamps so I put 5 euroes in the enlvelope inside the envelope. Is that fine? Will it work out? Could you (awesome web fairies) pass the message there. Or something. Thanks a lot :)
Have you considered touring Europe ?
Loved the concert and was glad to see you in and blown away with your performance in Californication!!
I know you are a really busy man, but I hope you entertain the thought of bringing more cabaret shows to the states. I love your work. Your a genius, and your point of view is truly welcome here.
Hi Tim,
I love Californication and found your character “Atticus Fetch,” fascinating. Decided to Wiki your name and you’re quite a brilliant man. Read about your reasons for wearing eye makeup and it all makes sense
When you’re on the set, how do the walk ons, the women who appear almost nude while “Karen,”? was having sex w/you, how do they feel. I’ve often wondered what the atmosphere is like on that set.
As a recurring guest, I much prefer you than the “Eddy Nero” character. Loved the scene between you and the woman who plays your spouse (wife.) Hope your character will stay around for a while.
Pleeease, Tim Minchin, come to Berlin! We need you here. Love your “black humour and wifes humour” on Youtube!
Hi, I’m Will and I’m 14. Tim Minchin is just incredible. All his work I’ve listened up to this point have been incredible pieces of music. I’m a christian and I still find his music entertaining and witty. I saw Matilda last friday and the second I got home I bought the album and the music book thingy. I just want to thank Tim for all the entertainment he has brought me.
Loving Californication. Will you be in the next season? Hope you’re in Toronto soon!
Hi there, I just wanted to say thanks, Tim. I came across your work a few days ago (I know, no idea where I’d been hanging out…) and listened to much of what I could find online. I must say, I haven’t been this amused since I first heard Frank Zappa, and that was a long time ago. Frank stays unequaled, but you’ve managed to come pretty close, in a completely different way. Keep going.
I’m a bit ashamed to admit that the first time I heard of you was on Californication, but after the first episode this season I was like “who is this guy!? he is fucking hilarious!” After that everywhere I looked there you were, and come to find out you are not just a great actor but also a hysterical comedian and incredibly talanted musician. I’ve been pretty much addicted to your work since. I like to consider myself a humanist and so I relate to your point of views of religion and racism. You’ve helped me feel more comfortable in my beliefs in “things I only have evidence for” :) Thank you so very much and keep up the amazing work, I will forever be one of your many fans and dream of seeing you in person one day!
Tim, I just want to let you know that in Russia a lot of your fans!!!
May I ask your address and ……send you some cookies??[If them can survive the long long journey.
I First came acros you in Californication, and i thought who the f*ck is this guy, realy nailing the acting on how to be a rockstar, so i’ve googled you and came across your website and seen some of your gig’s and i was amazed by the funny but also direct and honest words you’ve spoke that realy makes people think again about the world, realy inspiring.
I’ve also seen the doc about you “rock & roll nerd 2008” where its shown how you’ve grown and see an amazing little baby been born,
you Sir are gonna be an Awsome dad!
Hi Tim, this is going to sound odd, but I had a deal with my brother that after I had paid off Brian May with Kerry Ellis and Derren Brown tickets, he would buy me Jesus Christ Superstar tickets, (being massive fans and having already seen the tour last time around in Sheffield and loved it) or tickets for you if you go on tour again! So pretty please with lots of ginger hair on top, go on tour again! Thankyou x
My friend saw the song “1984”
“Oh really a lovely couple.”she said.
O口O????!!!!!
My friend saw the song “1984”
“Oh really a lovely couple.”she said.
WHAT O口O????!!!!!
I can’t remember exactly how I came across your work, but it just seemed to suit me. And then I found “White Wine In The Sun”, which I think is just glorious. Watched it on youtube and bought it from itunes straight away. It strikes home about what is important in life, family! Without wanting to go onto a downer I lost my wife a few years ago, making my (currently young) kids so much more important to me. Your song summed it all up for me. I will be there someday waiting for them (in the cold and wet, this is north east england after all), whenever they are ready to come home! Love your stuff, keep doing what you are doing!
There are so many words to be spoken about your songs – awsome, brilliant, sharp. The lift up spirit and at the same time force to think about very serious matters. And your music – it just gets into one’s head and stays there for days :)
I hope “you’ll just keep writing” on and on
Best regards from russian fans to you and your family :)
A lil’ question. Is it ok if I put a video of Tim on youtube if it is already there (but uploaded by someone else), but I am changing it by adding subbtitles (in English and Polish) and not for profit?
I will refrain from saying that you are supernaturally talented but instead ask you in a non-stalking way “When/if you are thinking of performing in a non-English speaking country (apart from the USA)? And if you are – may I suggest Denmark. Don’t go to Sweden – they will be offended”
I would hate your ego to overload so I’ll skip the affirmation and jump straight to the point: Mr. Jakob Teislev has a point, we are a few Danes who would love you to visit. And whenever you start your solo shows again, surely it will be a world tour? No less for a superstar like you, if I may say so. And you have quite a large fan base here – and we are in dire need of some proper entertainment too!
I wish I had stumbled upon your songs when I was a HS science teacher, because I would have played much of your work in class (& thus sparing me work). As it was, I had to use Penn & Teller’s Bullshit instead, which was fine, until my boss happened in on us watching their circumcision episode (which I hadn’t actually previewed before hand – something my boss frowned upon). Still, I hope their are science teachers out there, playing your music in class. Finally, just wanted to say, as 1 ginger atheist to an other, everything you do gets me extremely wet. Have a “good friday”, and don’t get nailed.
Went to see you at Stand Up For Shelter. Absolutely amazing! Unfortunately I missed the last 10 minutes due to silly people with cameras causing a me to have a fit (really do people not realise that flashes are completely ineffective at that distance??), so you really need to come back to the UK so I can see that 10 minutes!!
I don’t really wanna leave some super long paragraph that’s boring and repetitive so i’ll keep it short. Tim Minchin is one of the most spectacular performers I have ever seen. Although my knowledge of his existence is through clips of his concerts on youtube, the occasional appearance on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and his epic role as Atticus Fetch on Californication…I hope to one day see Tim play live in New York. I would also love to be able to buy dvds of his concerts so pleeeease make them available to us here in the states. Well it turns out this is a paragraph but lets hope it wasn’t boring and repetitive.