The Henley Festival has announced that Tim will be co-headlining, with opera singer Alfie Boe, on Friday 6th July, on the Floating Stage, Henley-on-Thames, UK. He will be joined on stage by his band, Pete Clements and Brad Webb. Everyone will be wearing their best bib and tucker for this event. Everyone.

Tickets are currently on sale to friends of the festival and go on general sale 14th March:
Box office: 01491 843404
Online: www.henley-festival.co.uk

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Tim will also close this May’s Bury St Edmunds Festival as he performs solo, in the Fat Cat Comedy Special, on Sunday 27th May, at 8pm. The actual number of fat cats attending has not been confirmed.

Tickets for all Festival events go on sale from 27th February:
Box Office: 01284 758000
Online: www.buryfestival.co.uk

Please Note: Bury St Edmunds – Rescheduled
Now Sunday 9th of September 2012
This gig was postponed from 27th May 2012. For further information please see this blog post.

So, two more festival opportunities for lyrical and exuberant musical satire performed on a buffed grand piano by a snappily dressed man with hair tousled to within an inch of its life.

Tim and his kick-ass band (Pete Clements and Brad Webb) will be heading to Knebworth, on the 7th July 2012, to blow the roof off the Saturn Stage at Sonisphere!

They’ll be joining a lineup that includes rock legends Queen (and Adam Lambert), KISS and Faith No More! Also appearing over the weekend will be glam favourites The Darkness, Marilyn Manson, Cypress Hill and Andrew WK.

Tickets for the festival go on sale Thursday, 23rd February, at 9am from the Sonisphere website!

Yesterday evening the 12th annual Whatsonstage.com Awards took place at the West End’s Prince of Wales Theatre. These UK theatre industry awards are nominated by and voted for purely by theatregoers and the ticket-buying public. Matilda The Musical had received an incredible nine nominations!

Matilda the Musical triumphed, winning Best New Musical – Tim Minchin & Dennis Kelly; Best Set Designer – Rob Howell and Best Choreographer – Peter Darling.

Tim won The London Newcomer of the Year for his work on Matilda.

“With 35% of the votes in his category, Australian comedian Tim Minchin, making his musical debut providing the show’s music and lyrics, was a commanding winner for London Newcomer of the Year.” Whatsonstage.com

Tim: “I’ve been around for a bit but newcomer implies that I like doing new stuff and that the industry expects me to keep doing stuff in the London theatre world, which I really hope I can do.”

Many congratulations to Tim, the creative team, cast and everyone involved with Matilda the Musical!

The Larmer Tree Festival have announced that their comedy headliner is to be none other than Tim! He’ll be ripping up the Main Stage – the first comedian ever to do so, may I add – on Thursday, 12th July, accompanied only by his grand piano.

Other acts confirmed to be on at the festival, which takes place in Wiltshire, include Jools Holland and The Levellers, with plenty more acts, including comedians, still to be announced.

You can check the latest news and find out further information about the festival on their website and it’s the place to go to grab your tickets too.

Due to high demand sublime on stage chemistry the 2012 Telegraph Hay Festival has added another date for Tim with the delectable B[rad]&P[ete] band: Thursday 31st May at 8pm in the Barclays Pavillion.

Tickets are already on general sale. The festival box office number is 01497 822629 and online ticket sales can be found here.

The Hay Festival is celebrating its 25th year with ten days of music, comedy, literature and more, all taking place from 31th May to the 10th June. Other acts and the programme of events will be announced on the festival website on the 14th February.

Head for the [Malvern] hills! Tim will be performing at the Malvern Piano Festival on Saturday 2nd June at 8.30pm. He’ll be joined on stage by a piano reinforced for his zestful exuberance, some natty attire and his aesthetically pleasing and talented band, Brad and Pete, who toured with him and the Heritage Orchestra last year.

Tickets are £25 and £22.50 and available from the Box Office: 01684 892277 and online here.

The Malvern Piano Festival runs from the 1st June to the 3rd June 2012, if you fancy some additional pianist action.

Tickets for Tim’s shows have been selling out very quickly so if you want to catch this show get a w[r]iggle on!

UPDATE: We were informed that the tickets would be on general sale today but an error occurred. They are rectifying the situation. You will be able to buy the tickets shortly.
UPDATE: 18:15 GMT They are back on general sale now – you do not have to be a member to purchase.

Did you miss out on tickets to see Tim play in an intimate, purple upside-down cow when they first went on sale? It’s not surprising if you answered, ‘yes,’ as the initial allocation was sold out before we got a chance to announce the show! Fortunately, a second allocation of tickets are now available, however, to make things fair, there’s a bit of a twist.

There are 150 tickets available for the show on the 8th July at the Udderbelly at the Southbank Centre in London, but, to ensure that they’re bought by fans, and not touts that’ll sell them on for extortionate prices, the folk at Udderbelly Festival have decided to run a “ballot” system for them.

Between now and 5pm on the 8th February, you can apply for either one or two tickets to the show (only your first entry will be accepted so don’t you go trying to cheat…) and you’ll be notified as to whether you’ve been successful or not shortly after the ballot closes.

There are various other terms and conditions, like you need to pick the tickets up on the day with the card with which you paid for them, and it’s only open to UK residents, and the age restriction for the show is 16+. You can and should read all the small print here on their Terms and Conditions page.

Now then, with that all out of the way (you are still with us, right?) here’s the link to the page where you can apply!

Good luck!

UPDATE: the Underbelly site is temporarily down from too many eager fans! Don’t forget, there’s no rush to get your application in as the ballot is open until Wednesday 8th February.

UPDATE: To address the queries about ticket prices if you win the ballot:
This gig has unreserved seating for the standard ticket price. Sirloin priority seating allows a very limited number of customers per performance to sit near the front. No one is under any obligation to choose a sirloin seat upgrade. The ballot is for the standard £30 ticket. If a customer wishes to upgrade this ticket to a sirloin seat, should they be available, then they have that option.

Tim will be appearing on the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, tonight, 31st January 2012, on Channel Nine at 9.30pm – 11.30pm.

Formerly the AFI Awards, the AACTA Awards will be screened from the Sydney Opera House in a delayed broadcast. This year the television section of the awards marks 25 years of celebrating Australian television.

Oscar winners Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and Red Dog starlet Rachael Taylor head a host of film and television stars who will present the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. Special guest Olivia Newton-John will be singing a medley from the soundtrack of her new film, A Few Best Men.

Tim will open the 2012 Telegraph Hay Festival this year with a concert on Friday 1st June at 9.30pm.

The Hay Festival is celebrating its 25th year with ten days of music, comedy, literature and more, all taking place from 31th May to the 10th June. Other acts and the programme of events will be announced on the festival website over the coming weeks.

Tickets are now on general sale. The festival box office number is 01497 822629 and online ticket sales can be found here.

29th Jan 2012
UPDATE: More tickets have been put on sale now – grab them while you can!

Hey you, Americans! Are you starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms after Tim’s tours last year, and do you like secularism and skepticism? Then boy, should you be excited right about now!

Your favourite Golden Lion Tamarin descendant, Tim, is set to rock up to the Reason Rally at the National Mall in Washington D.C. on the 24th March 2012, bringing his silly songs about science and rationalism with him!

The event is free to attend, and will run from 10am to 4pm. In addition to Tim, Bad Religion and Jamie Kilstein will also be performing and there’ll be talks from Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers and James Randi, amongst many others.

Additional information and the full line up can be found on the Reason Rally website.