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Tim will be headlining at the 2015 Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, Austin, Texas, 22nd-25th April.

The festival plays across several Austin venues and the Cap City Comedy Club. Other Headliners include: Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Marc Maron, Wanda Sykes, John Mulaney, T.J. Miller, Pete Holmes and Ron White.

Single tickets for the headliner performances will be available from the 19th February.

For the full ticket/badge, venue and line-up details take a look here: moontowercomedyfestival.com.

Tim will be on your telly Christmas Day at 9pm on BBC2. Tim Rice: A Life In Song sees a host of special guests celebrate the life and work of the great lyricist at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

Michael Grade hosts and is in conversation with Tim Rice, teasing out the stories behind some of the best loved songs from stage and screen over the last five decades.

‘Our Tim’ joins Alexander Armstrong, Gemma Arterton, Rob Brydon, Roger Daltrey, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rufus Wainwright amoungst many others. They are accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Mike Dixon. Full details and line-up are to be found here.

Tim opened the show with, Heaven On Their Minds from Jesus Christ Superstar*, on the night, so it might be worth tuning in early if you’re sitting down to watch it on the telly box in your paper hats.

Otherwise it’ll be available on iPlayer shortly after it airs and via the BBC RED Button: 10:25pm until 6:00am.

* As many of you will know: In 2012, Tim toured with the spectacular first ever UK arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar, cast in his dream role of Judas Iscariot, reprising his award winning role when the show toured Australian arenas and then the UK again in 2013.

It’s finally time to announce something that’s been on most North American fans’ wishlists – region 1 DVDs!

Comedy Dynamics released So F**king Rock Live and Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra on streaming site Hulu (and Netflix for the Heritage Orchestra show) earlier this year and now they’re releasing both shows on DVD!

The DVDs are being released on 20th January 2015 – a bit too late for Santa to leave them under your tree, but we’ve heard that they make equally as excellent birthday presents!

They’re available to preorder from Amazon (US and Canada) from the following links:

• So F**king Rock Live (US)
• So F**king Rock Live (Canada)
• Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra (US)
• Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra (Canada)

So F**king Rock Live was filmed at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, way back in May 2008, and features all of Tim’s greatest hits from his first two shows, Dark Side and So Rock. It’s filled with such musical highlights as Canvas Bags, If You Really Loved Me, Some People Have It Worse Than I and You Grew On Me.

Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London in April 2011 and includes a mix of spectacular reworkings of classic Tim tracks and funky new tracks written especially for the show. The tracklisting includes delights such as The Pope Song, Lullaby, Not Perfect and Thank You God.

Both shows also feature fabulous Minchin choreography, his trademark big hair and bare feet, and some hilarious talky bits.

Still not convinced? Then here are some preview clips for you!

Due to the phenomenal demand for tickets for the show on the 23rd, causing it to sell out in minutes, Tim will be doing a second and final date On The Steps of the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 24th February, 2015.

The presale opens on Wednesday 10th December at 12noon and closes on Thursday 11th December, 2014, at 5pm.

The rest of the tickets will go on general sale at 10am on Friday 12th December, 2014, here.

If you didn’t have tickets to the 23rd, we hope this other date will do…

So, if you’d like to see Tim take over the steps of the Opera House with his band, shake out that glorious mane, bust some moves and entertain you wildly with concert versions of his greatest hits (and if you’re lucky maybe a song or two from Matilda and/or his new musical Groundhog Day) best get your wiggle on to grab tickets!

Tim was interviewed on The Morning Show last week and at 07:48 he talks briefly about what you can expect from his show on the steps of the Sydney Opera House and whether he’ll choose a swanky new costume or appear in his “birthday suit”…

Photo by Lyndsey Gardiner

It’s been a few years since Tim visited San Francisco. So, having heard your numerous pleas, he’ll be performing at the Nourse Theatre, San Francisco, CA, at 7pm on Sunday, January 25th, 2015!

This will be vintage Tim; delivering a heady mix of clever, satirical and often beautiful songs, along with his musical athleticism and a ferocious hairdo.

Tickets to this special evening, at the newly renovated and reopened Nourse Theatre, are likely to sell fast so be sure you’re adequately prepared to snap them up at the presale:

The presale starts tomorrow Wednesday 3rd December, 2014, at 10am (PST) and runs until 10pm Thursday.
Use the presale password: PRESENTS

Tickets will then go on general sale at 10am Friday 5th December, 2014, here.

Get excited Australia because there’s one hell of a show coming your way!

Your favourite fashion icon / mock rock star / musical theatre composer (delete as applicable) is heading back to the iconic Sydney Opera House to play a special, one-off show on its forecourt!

Tim will be performing on Monday 23rd February 2015 as part of the On The Steps series of concerts.

He’ll be bringing with him a band of unspecified size, to play a currently undecided setlist that’ll feature a mix of your favourite classics, with a few bits and pieces you might not have heard before thrown in for good measure!

This is Tim’s only Australian show scheduled for 2015 (apologies to the rest of the country) so you’ll want to get your tickets sharpish and, fortunately, we’ve got a presale link for you:

The presale opens on Tuesday 2nd December 2014 at 10am and closes on Thursday 4th December 2014 at 5pm.

The general sale will then run from 10am on Friday 5th December 2014.

UPDATE: This show is now SOLD OUT.

Do you live somewhere other than the UK, Australia and North America?

If the answer to that question is yes and you want to get your mitts on some of Tim’s music then read on!

Laughing Stock have released Tim’s So F**king Rock Live album as a digital download for a snip at £6.99 and, in addition to that, you can purchase it from anywhere in the world!

The 16 strong tracklist features these classic gems:

• So F**king Rock
• Inflatable You
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Nerd
• Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins
• If You Open Your Mind Too Much
• Canvas Bags
• If You Really Loved Me
• Some People Have It Worse Than Me
• You Grew On Me
• Dark Side
• Not Perfect

If you’re in Europe, they also offer Tim’s other albums – Ready For This? and Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra – for the same price, so if you’re a new fan of Tim’s, here’s your chance to catch up with his back catalogue!

White Wine in the Sun

As in previous years, all November, December and January profits from the sale of Tim’s sentimental Christmas song, White Wine In The Sun, will go to The National Autistic Society (NAS) which provides support, information and services for people with autism and their families and campaigns for “a better world for people with autism”.

There’s the 2009 solo version and the one recorded in 2012, with strings, french horn and more.

Here are just some of the places you can download the 2012 single internationally: iTunes , Amazon (UK), Amazon (US) and 7digital.

If you have it already perhaps you’d like to gift it along with the socks, jocks or chocs…

Storm the Illustrated Book which sprang from Tim’s sublime critical thinking beat-poem, is now available online and in all good bookshops!

With a foreword from Neil Gaiman, a detailed introduction by Tim and amazing new artwork from animator and illustrator DC Turner (with producer Tracy King), the book expresses Tim’s satirical lyrical trickery beautifully.

For a peek inside at some of the stunning artwork and for a list of various online retailers for both the paperback and the eBook, take a look at the Storm – The Illustrated Book Page.

“You’d imagine that any attempt to gild Tim’s lily would end in disaster, but Storm succeeds on every level. An absolute treat”
– Rufus Hound

“I have lived Storm, repeatedly. Minchin is a god among dorks.”
– Ben Goldacre

“Tim Minchin is a prophet and a poet, and Storm is his masterpiece: a passionate love letter to reason that is as hilarious as it is profound, as savage as it is touching. Flawlessly written and divinely illustrated, this is a truly unique and special book. And if you happen to be a friend of mine, you should put it down right now, because this is what I’m buying you for Christmas.”
– Jane Goldman

It’s time for more Tim on your telly, Australians!

Tomorrow, Thursday 16th October 2014, Tim will be seated behind the desk on The Project on Channel Ten!

The show airs at 6:30pm, and he’ll be joining hosts and regular panellists Carrie Bickmore, Pete Helliar, Josh Zepps and Mia Freedman, along with their other special guest, Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs, to dissect and give their unique take on the day’s news.

If, for some reason you’re busy and haven’t dropped all your plans to watch Tim on TV, the show will be available afterwards on The Project’s website.

Tim also appeared on Channel Nine’s Today, yesterday, to talk about Matilda The Musical and you can catch up with that interview here.