Have you had enough of Tim on your television and radio sets yet? No? Well this will be a bit of good news for you!
If you have a fancy DAB radio (or digital TV or the Internet) you can hear Tim curating BBC Radio 7‘s Comedy Clubtonight and Sunday, 10pm – midnight, with Tom Wrigglesworth. Look at the photo of them together; I think they’re having a hair-off.
Tomorrow, Saturday, Tim will be interviewed on T4 (Channel 4). This will be aired in two parts at 10:45am and 11:50am so if you don’t want to watch the Hollyoaks omnibus then you don’t have to!
Tim will also be on the radio tomorrow, on BBC Radio 4‘s Loose Ends at 6:15pm alongside John Waters, Lisa Jardine, and Carl Davis.
Tim is delighted to be supporting this charity again this year, because he feels it is a poorly funded area, with its causes and treatment still not well understood.
This is a captivating song and a beautiful and intelligent exploration of why Christmas can still be meaningful even without religious beliefs. There’s just the right amount of sentiment and some very gentle humour illustrating Tim’s feelings about Christmas and the importance of family and home. It is a heart-warming song and may make you a little bright eyed.
The song can also be viewed on Tim’s YouTube Channel and this week he performed it live on Richard Bacon’s BBC 5 Live show. You can see that video here.
Emotional huh?
EDIT: In answer to some queries we’ve received: The proceeds from ALL legitimate downloads go to the NAS, including Amazon here.
The RSC has a limited allocation of tickets for the official opening night of Matilda, A Musical which they would like to offer to Tim Minchin fans.
Best available seats for just £10 (max of 2 tickets per transaction).
The performance takes place on Thursday 9 December at 5pm at The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Please note that some seats may have a slightly restricted view at certain times during the performance.
To book please call the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114 and quote: “Matilda Opening Night Offer”.
This is the press night performance and the official opening night of the show, so a very exciting night to attend and this is a great opportunity to see the show at a fantastic price.
This offer requires that you phone the Ticket Hotline number above but you can book tickets for other shows online at the Matilda, A Musical website, where you’ll find lots of information, rehearsal blogs, games, videos and much more. Videos are also available through the RSC’s YouTube channel or the ‘Favourites’ section of Tim’s own YouTube channel.
Which character are you most looking forward to seeing brought to life before your very eyes?
Tomorrow morning, Tim will be valiantly encasing himself in warm, yet sheddable layers (studios can be very warm) and struggling through up to an inch of snow to appear on BBC Breakfast.
That’s BBC1, Thursday 2nd December 2010.
Despite it being the huskies day off and too early for the reindeer he should be on your screens, all snug on the couch, some time after 8.15am.
This is one of those occasions where it’s not too kinky to wonder what the handsome comedy rock superstar/fashion icon will be wearing first thing in the morning…
EDIT: If you missed this, the full interview has gone up on the BBC site here.
Erm, wait, hang on a mo; that doesn’t sound right…
Tomorrow Tim will be appearing on two radio shows for you to all listen in to.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
BBC Radio 2 – 14:00 – 17:00 Listen live
Richard Bacon
BBC Radio 5 Live – 14:00 – 16:00 Listen live
Now, the eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that both shows are on at the same time but considering they’re both broadcast from different places, how do you think Tim’s getting between the two? I like to imagine it’ll be on a sledge pulled by huskies…
Tim’s second, live UK DVD, Ready For This? is available on DVD, Blu-ray and iTunes from the 29th November 2010. That’s TODAY! Just in time to add it to your Christmas wish list or maybe you’re gifting it to someone you quite like, in some glittery wrapping paper. Oo shiny…
Ready For This? is now available to order or download, via various online retailers: Amazon, Play and iTunes. Angry (Feet), the official fansite, have compiled a handy list with the links for you. It can also be purchased from HMV, all major supermarkets and any half-decent high street retailer.
Many of you will already have the details below, from a previous blog, so what follows is a repeat for any new visitors today. We’ve put out the guest soap and towels too…
The DVD was filmed in front of a justifiably enthusiastic audience during a sell-out, 3-night run at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, in London.
In this spectacular show, Tim confronts the pressing issues of the day: environmentalism, rationalism, prejudice(ism) and his amour de boobs(ism). The universal human experiences of love, truth… ginger body hair and um… dancing bears?…are all there to enlighten us and make us giggle.
Ready For This? features: Prejudice, If I Didn’t Have You, Bears Don’t Dig On Dancing, Canvas Bags, Confessions, White Wine In The Sun, the acclaimed nine minute beat poem;Stormand many more.
The DVD comes with an exclusive 28-page ‘Songbook’ of, often handwritten and annotated, lyrics and with some photos from the tour. The show is also available on Blu-ray but the songbook is not available with that format.
Extras on both formats include: the animated internet sensationPope Song, an interview and performance of 5 Poofs and 2 PianosfromFriday Night with Jonathan Rossand a music video:Google Street View, made forThe Big Fat Quiz of the Year, 2009.
Here, for your delectation is a lovely clip from the show: Tim singing ‘If I Didn’t Have You’ in a in a pair of delightfully uncomfortable, yet stylish, skinny jeans and featuring a particularly fine example of the, now world famous‘Wiggle’…oh yes.
This is a new recording for the UK DVD but it is the same show as Ready For This? recorded at the Enmore in Sydney and released in Australia already. There are brand new ‘talky bits’ and ‘If You Really Loved Me’ replaces ‘You Tube Lament’ – this is reflected in the ‘Songbook’. The Extras are…extra too. For those not based in the UK, it will be available from this site and other retailers who ship worldwide, at some point.
DVDs will also be available from venues during the UK Orchestra Tour, December 2010.
Please note that although some ticketing websites have been stating that Tim’s magnificent UK orchestra arena tour this December is sold out, that is just their allocation. Tickets are still available via the links here and if you need further information and advice regarding ticket availability please see this earlier blog.
So who will you be buying this DVD for? Yourself, your gran, the local vicar…?
Last week Tim recorded an episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage a radio programme which takes a “witty and irreverent look at the world according to science”.
Episode 3: ‘Randomness’ airs on Monday, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4
Robin and Tim: Intense debate
Alex and Brian
The BBC blurb says:
“Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are joined by the Australian comedian and musician Tim Minchin and mathematician Alex Bellos to discuss randomness, probability and chance. They look at whether coincidences are far more common than one might think and how a mathematical approach can make even the most unpredictable situations… well, predictable.”
Tim and Sasha Feachem, Producer of The Infinite Monkey Cage
Previous episodes of the programme are available as podcasts here.
Monday’s show will also become available as a podcast and on iPlayer here, once it airs, should you miss it.
The photos were taken, at the recording, at the Drill Hall, London by Vincent Connare. (http://twitter.com/VincentConnare) I only wish there was one of Tim putting a friendly headlock on Brian when they had a ‘difference of opinion’… A friendly hug for Sasha will have to suffice.
and there’s more:
Tim will be on The Chris Moyles Show, BBC Radio 1, Monday 29th November. The show is 06.30 – 10.00. Click here for the photo of Chris and Tim taken when Tim was last on the show in October 2009.
and
Richard Bacon , BBC Radio 5 Live, Tuesday 30th November. This show is 14:00 – 16:00.
Both will be available on BBC iPlayer shortly after they air.
Look out for more radio interviews coming up soon.
This one’s mainly for the students and the unemployed of the UK!
Tomorrow, Tim will be appearing on The Wright Stuff on Channel Five (and Channel Five HD [yes, it exists]) at 9:15am. If that’s too early for you, well there’s a repeat on Fiver at 11am if you have a fancy digital telly with Freeview.
He will be joined by the week’s panelists Hardeep Singh Kohli (chef and broadcaster) and Tracy-Ann Oberman (her off of the series two Doctor Who finale).
For those not in the know, The Wright Stuff is a ‘topical debate show’ so, just out of curiosity, aside from the royal wedding, what would you like to see discussed on the show?
Tim was interviewed for How Roald Dahl Shaped Pop,a documentary about Roald Dahl’s influence on pop music, narrated by David Tennant, with contributions from Kate Nash and Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics.
It will air at 10pm this evening, 22nd November on Radio 2.
In the meantime here’s Miss Trunchbull *gulp* to tell you about RULES in this wonderful new trailer for Matilda:
Anybody start dancing in their chairs to the last few bars at the end of that? Huh?…oh neither did I… in fact my shoulders and elbows never moved and my head didn’t tilt once…
You can book tickets for the show via the Matilda A Musical website, where you’ll find lots of information, rehearsal blogs, games, videos and much more. This video and more are also available through the RSC’s YouTube channel or the ‘Favourites’ section of Tim’s own YouTube channel.
