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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…
April 2015
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I love your work!
Any chance you`ll be performing in the Netherlands?
Love your work, do you have any Florida dates coming up?
Hi Tim,
We recently saw you in Sydney at the Opera House. It was fab. I absolutely love everything you have done. I am awed by your clever, intelligent and insightful musical and lyrical talent. You are very funny but I often find myself crying at some of your songs as I can see a honesty and vulnerability in your lyrics and I am thankful to you for being so brave and saying things that many people are afraid to say.
Please come back to Australia very soon. You should do heaps more touring. We can’t wait to see you again.
Warmest Regards
Danielle xo
You’re really a rock star. Any tour dates in the northeast US? I’d love to see you live—and so would the rest of my family.
Thanks for being amazing.
Sarah
Any chance of coming to the UK, preferably London/south area. Love pretty much all your music and I’m going to see Matilda in September.
Hi Tim, I have been a fan of you for quite some time now, ever since I came across one of your songs at youtube. And from that moment on you grew on me like a tumor. I grew an addiction to your brilliant witty and hilariously offensive lyrics. Your songs are unique and probably the best entertainment out there. And whenever I listen to them , specificly Dark Side or the Fence I think to myself Id give the world to be able to play piano like that. The songs in Mathilda are fucking genius too. I am just so glad I discovered an artist who understands that beatiful things in life can be naturally explained and still remain beatiful. You are the rock star of my heart Tim.
Tim, you are the best musician, comedian and pianist. You can connect your talent in a great way! I admire what you are doing. Remember: You are the best! <3 Will you come to Poland? I wait :)
I recently tried to watch the episode of Stop Laughing you were in, but had a hard time getting it to play. Unable to play in America, for whatever reason. Anyway, I was finally able to view it, but about a third of the way through the show, something happened to the video and everyone’s voice went up a couple octives. So have to say, listening to you sing The Pope Song, was quite amusing, sounding like you were sucking helium. I had a good chuckle! (Ahh, the simple things in life.) You should soooooo do that at one of your gigs!
Other words would be useless…I just wanted to say you are special.
Love from Italy
I’ll try not to make this too long. I was bombarded at work one day, by my co workers showing me a video of some pathetic christian comedian trying to explain atheists to the audience. After everyone listened and really didn’t laugh too much, I decided it was my turn.
So I pulled up your “Pope song” and they couldn’t stop laughing.
So thank you for your work.
I yelled, “yippee” when your ‘Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra’ finally was available on DVD in America. I brought quite a few friends who didn’t get to see you on Showtime. They might have got ton tired of me talking about you, but that’s their problem. This was months ago, but yippee!
Hi Tim, your work is excellent and I find myself looking for an opportunity to see you live!
Hope to get to see your work at a future UK event!
Regards
James
Just knowing you from Youtube, first thought: “Oh, he ist like a younger and English-speaking version of Rainald Grebe.” Than googled both of you, just to find out you are almost the same age. Now I think you of being a crazier and still English-speaking version of Rainald Grebe. What is the greatest honor for musicians in my eyes. Best wishes from Germany.
Congrats on GHD! Word is it’s going to be a smash! Can’t wait to see it!
Cheers.
Oy. Second and final post (friends + drinking + you in conversation = I’m sorry for your fan page monitor.)
Top composers of the 21st century:
1. Danny Elfman
2. You
3. Kanye West tied with Justin Timberlake
Why?…
Danny Elfman, because I have loved him since 1985 and I have told people I was married to him since 1997! PLUS…. you are married to the lovely Mrs. Minchin and that would just be rude to say otherwise. Also he is the best of all the red-headed hotties, ever! And I day-dream of having tiny little red-headed, supremely-talented, Danny-littles… (Stares off into dreamy, yet creepy fantasy… Cough cough).
You, cause… Well, sir you are honestly one of the best musicians we have had around in the last 50 some years. Cheers to you!
Kanye: I love Kanye ALMOST as much as Kanye loves Kanye. He’s talented…He knows this.
Justin: There will always be a 13 year old girl inside me somewhere that just goes into hysterics when I hear “your love.” …Sighs.
But seriously, break many legs on the opening for GHD and hope to see it soon.
:)
Hi Tim, from Mesa, AZ. My wife and I just discovered you via Funny1260 in Apache Junction, AZ. I see you perform in Austin. Well the Phoenix area isn’t that far, and we’d love to see you live. Thank you!
The Austin performance was amazing, and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to talk with you after the show. But, I didn’t think to tell you what I most wanted to say – too starstruck, I think. What I most admire about you is your strong sense of humanity and morality, and the incredible commitment you have to everything you do. Beneath the comedy exterior, you have so much to teach us, and you teach us so beautifully. The range of your work is incredible – from the brilliant music and lyrics of Matilda, to the overwhelming depth of your performance as Judas, to your love of family that shows through in everything you do, to the brilliantly educational comedy, to inspirational graduation speeches, to amazing piano artistry. Hugs from the “oldest living feeter
Oops. Pressed send by mistake. So, please add “period, close quotation” to the above ( kinda like closed bracket, eh?). Anyway, can’t wait for Groundhog Day, and can’t wait to see the amazing accomplishments in your future!
My hubby and I first found you on Netflix about six months ago. We travelled to Austin from Florida to see you and were not disappointed. Your show was wonderful. We are only sorry we missed you at the Moontower lounge. Please do more tours in the U.S. You are truly talented in soooooo many ways. We look forward to seeking out more of your work – and maybe catching a quick picture/autograph next time. Thanks for being a smart intelligent comic and artist.
Tim, I love you !
Tim, you’re amazing. Can I bring you cookies?
P.S I’m 11
Heya Tim! As an assignment in my english class we had to write a tribute speech, and I chose to make a tribute for you. I got a straight A because my teacher thought it was so emotionally loaded. I did my best to really express what you mean to me and how your works have helped me through many struggles in life. I wish you would have been there though, because you deserve to know how much you mean to us, your fans. Thank you Tim.
Hey Tim, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the musical complexity in your songs. It’s not too hard to come by a comedian that can write average songs, or a musician that can crack a joke or two, but you are the only performer I have found that seems to have mastered both music and comedy. Thank you, sir.
Hi Tim, I wanted to say thank you for all your incredible work.After watching So Live Part 1, I threw out my plastic bags and made a canvas bag to take to the supermarket that reads ” Take Your Canvas Bag to the Supermarket”, I hope you don’t mind, it gets me lots of odd looks and every now and then someone will get curious and ask. Of course my answer would be much more fun with a wind machine! Fans for life, Tammy and Brian! ( btw loved you on Californication!)