News Archive

Well this is something you won’t hear on ‘Songs Of Praise’, even this fine Sunday evening.

Remember back in April, when Tim and animator, Fraser Davidson, unleashed The Pope Song video on to YouTube? And you know how it’s had over half a million views since? And you know how lots of you were requesting that it was released as an mp3?

Well, to coincide with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the UK later this week, Tim has decided to let you have the mp3 as a free download; once the Pope disappears from the UK, this download will too, so get it while it’s hot like (imaginary) hell-fires!

Tim_Minchin_The_Pope_Song

We’d also like to point out, that the wonderful members of Angry (Feet) have been able to download this already for the past couple of days because that’s the kind of benefit you get from joining up!

EDIT: Due to popular demand Tim will leave this song up for you to download even though Benny has now left these shores.

This new video trailer for Matilda A Musical features some of the instrumental score written by Tim and is the first opportunity to hear it. Excitingness indeed!

It can also be viewed on the Matilda A Musical website or the RSC YouTube Channel.

Now that the rehearsals have started, the RSC also have announced the cast details: Three schoolgirls are to play Matilda, the special little girl with extraordinary powers, with three teams of children sharing the other child roles. The adult team of actors includes Lauren Ward as the lovely Miss Honey, and Bertie Carvel as the formidable head mistress Miss Trunchbull. Paul Kaye takes the role of Matilda’s father, Mr Wormwood with Josie Walker playing his wife and Matilda’s mother, Mrs Wormwood. Peter Howe plays Michael, Matilda’s brother. Comedy fans will remember Paul Kaye, the award-winning comedian and actor,  who has had TV roles in Skins, and Pulling. He is also known for his celebrity interviewer character, Dennis Pennis and for voicing characters in Mongrels, BBC Three’s “first urban, multi-species, adult, puppet comedy.”

The full casting information can be found here on the RSC website.

Tim is doing a one-off show at the RSC next January. It is called: Tim Minchin (Conversation With) and is on Sunday 16th January 2011 at 7:30 pm at the The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

You’ve probably heard that the RSC are putting on Matilda A Musical and that Tim has written the music and lyrics. Well there is a matinee that afternoon too, if anyone fancies combining the two for a Matilda/Tim day. More information about Matilda A Musical can be found at the official RSC site here.

The RSC will release tickets, for Tim Minchin (Conversation With), to members on the 15th September, with public booking opening on 11th October. However, the wise amongst you might make sure you are on Tim’s mailing list and check back with this blog from time to time…*wink*

In other news: the rehearsals for Matilda A Musical start on Monday- exciting! The RSC will be be posting a few updates on their Twitter feed throughout the day here: @TheRSC

A third Sydney date has been added to the Australian Orchestra Tour:

Tim Minchin vs the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 26th March 2011
Sydney Opera House

Tickets go on sale Monday the 30th August at 9.00am.

Some behind the scenes insights at the July 2010 Workshops for Matilda, A Musical.

Workshop co-directors Lotte Wakeham and Ryan McBryde explain the workshop process and some of the challenges involved in semi-staging the production.

Christopher Nightingale the musical supervisor and orchestrator talks with Tim about job titles/roles, and preparing to perform the show for a small audience of children and adults. Naturally the conversation also brings in unicorns, rainbows and the precise meaning of exponential…

This video can also be viewed on the RSC Matilda, the Musical website along with further videos and lots of lovely information.

A third Melbourne date has been added to the Australian Orchestra Tour:

Tim Minchin vs Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 27th February 2011
The Palais Theatre

Tickets will go on sale 12th August 2010.

You know how a while ago, a cuddly, ginger-haired antipodean wrote this?

“There is a 99% chance there will be a show in Edinburgh in April 2011, we just haven’t managed to lock in the date.”

Well people of Edinburgh, you may now rejoice as the date has been locked in place to the 17th April 2011, to take place at the Edinburgh Playhouse.

Tickets are on sale now from Ticketmaster or on the phone at: 0844 847 1660

Tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning, at 9am, for a second ‘Tim Minchin vs The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’ show.

They will be available exclusively for the lucky prepared, pre-registered, pre-sale people for four days and then will go on sale to the general public on Monday. Use the same link and secret password you have in your mailing list email for the first Adelaide date.

The show will be at the same venue and time on Saturday the 12th of March 2011.

If you missed out this time – join the mailing list and be pre… (nope, I got nothing) special next time.

Good day to you all and hello and I hope you are well. Check this:

Starting in Melbourne in late February 2011, I’ll be grooving around my home country playing big-arsed stupid songs with large groups of the finest classical musicians in the land. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The WA Symphony Orchestra, The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Pops Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony have all agreed to risk their reputations by playing my songs. Scary.

I’m currently in the process of writing some new stuff especially for this project, and there’ll be plenty of orchestrated versions of my old stuff too.

I am excited and – frankly – honoured to be performing with these folk and I do hope you can come and witness it. It will be unlike anything you’ve seen before. Unless you’ve seen my shows before and you’ve seen a performance by an orchestra before, in which case it’ll be quite like a combination of two things you’ve seen before.

I’m also excited because the radio station of my youth (and beyond), Triple J , will be supporting the tour. Which is very nice of them.

Tickets go on sale to the public on August 2nd at 9am!

Dates and details:

Melbourne
Tim Minchin vs the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Friday 25th of Feb
Saturday 26th Feb
The Palais Theatre
Tickets

Perth
Tim Minchin Vs the West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Friday 4th March
Pioneer Women’s Memorial – Kings Park & Botanic Garden
Tickets

Adelaide
Tim Minchin vs The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Friday 11th March
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Tickets

Brisbane
Tim Minchin vs the Queensland Pops Orchestra
Friday 18th March
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Tickets

Sydney
Tim Minchin vs the Sydney Symphony
Thursday 24th March
Saturday 25th March
Sydney Opera House
Tickets

In October 2008 Tim worked with Animator Martin White to create this video for “If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife)” for the forthcoming series of ITV’s ‘Comedy Cuts’.
Director: Fergus March
Director of Photography: Tim Jordan
Producer: Rohan Acharya

Heroically, in the interests of art Tim sat naked* in a space craft and sang about proof, rationalism and his wife, giving rise to the alternate title for the piece: “I will give you my piano, one of my legs and [most of] my clothes”

The song was first recorded in 2006 for the album ‘So Rock’.

* Please note Tim was not actually naked in this video.

…he was wearing an underbust corset and the mystery is: What colour was it?…