September 2020

Hi all. Here’s an infrequent blog. Am writing it by way of diarizing this weird little moment in time, and because I know a lot of you followed the progress of this project on socials.

The fact that I named this upcoming album of mine “Apart Together” long before Covid hit kinda presaged the way in which it has grown to become – in my mind at least – an album very much of this time. And as more shits have hit more fans, I have become more dedicated to making it a testament to this fucking year, and to the idea of making lemonade out of lemons, whatever shape the lemons are.

Some of my nerdier fans (hi, bless you, love you) will have heard me say more than once that I think you should aim to bring everything you are into everything you do. I tend to say it about artists, but I guess it works for humans in general. I also often quote my mentor/director/friend Matthew Warchus (who was perhaps quoting someone else) who told me, back in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2010 when I was anxious about whether Matilda was ready to open, that “any piece of art is just an artifact of the work you did in the time you had”. These two simple ideas have profoundly affected the way I go about my work… and this year have come to mean even more. This year, bringing “everything you are into everything you do”, means bringing your anxiety, and your disappointment, and your tiredness, and whatever else you are carrying through the pandemic months. And “the work that you did in the time that you had” could perhaps be extended to “… the work that you did in the time that you had in the space you were locked inside with the collaborators you were allowed to have contact with”!

Each single I have released this year has been an opportunity to make a little bit of art, and as our industry shut down, and then nervously semi-reopened, I tried to let the restrictions that came along govern the style of art-making.

Which brings me to the video for “Airport Piano”, the 4th single from my album, being released today!

Which, typical of this shit year, is also the day I have to get on a plane and fly away from my folks. Let me go back a bit….

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‘Airport Piano’, the 4th single from Tim’s forthcoming studio album Apart Together is out now.

Tim: “Airport Piano is almost definitely the funkiest tribute to midlife crises and the emptiness of acquisition ever recorded in the antipodes. It walks the line between extremely cool and extremely uncool with barely a teeter.”

If you’d like to read about the process and see lots of photos and video clips, click here for Tim’s Making-of blog about how he made the video, in a garage, whilst in quarantine in WA.

Stream/download Airport Piano: Tim-Minchin.lnk.to/AirportPianoWE

Pre-order Apart Together, out November 20th here:
Tim-Minchin.lnk.to/ApartTogetherAlbumWE

Credits can be found in the YouTube description.

**AIRPORT PIANO** (Lyrics)
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My family spent a couple of weeks in quarantine and the house we were staying in had a garage, so we made this vid!

Check back here after the YouTube Premiere for the whole story.

Stream/download here: Tim-Minchin.lnk.to/AirportPianoWE
Available Friday 25th September, worldwide, at midnight in each territory.

David Tennant Does A Podcast With Tim this week.

You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever else you get your podcasts: pod.link/tennant.

New York Magazine’s Vulture will be doing an Instagram live stream next week with Tim and Ben Folds interviewing each other for their ‘Two Friends’ series.

Tune in Live on Instagram @vulture

Tuesday September 8th 5pm PDT/8pm EDT – USA
Wednesday September 9th 1am BST – UK and 10am AEST – Australia

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