It was quite an evening for Matilda The Musical at the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards! Matilda had received ten nominations and tonight skipped away with SEVEN awards, a record haul for a single show, including Best New Musical.
Rob Howells won Best Set Design and Simon Baker Best Sound Design. Best Director went to Matthew Warchus with Peter Darling claiming Best Theatre Choreographer. Members of the cast triumphed too with Best Actor in a Musical for Bertie Carvel and the four Matildas: Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Eleanor Worthington Cox & Sophia Kiely shared the award for Best Actress in a Musical, breaking the record for the youngest Olivier Award-holders.
To see the full list of ten nominations earned by Matilda the Musical, the maximum for which it was eligible, see this earlier blog post. The full list of award winners can be found here.
Many congratulations to Tim and everyone at Matilda The Musical for such an amazing achievement.
*cartwheels*
Tim will be taking his wild hair and snazzy dress sense to the inaugural Winchester Comedy Festival at the intimate and cosy Theatre Royal on Friday 5th October!
Tickets for Tim’s show will go on sale at 10am on the 17th April, but you’ll need to act quickly as the venue only holds about 400 people! There will be a limit of 6 tickets per transaction.
Other acts appearing at the festival, which runs from the 4th to the 7th October, include Jason Byrne, Stewart Francis and Isy Suttie. Full details and tickets can be found at the festival’s website.
Tim will be performing with his band, the ever delectable Pete & Brad, at Truck Festival 2012.
This small independent music festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary and will take place from the 20th to 21st July, at Hill Farm, Steventon in Oxfordshire, with Tim and the band revving up, rocking out and shaking their flowing locks on the Friday evening.
Weekend tickets are on sale now from here and you can find out about the rest of the line up and further details from their website: www.truckfestival.com
Tim’s beguiling forelocks and naked toes will be gracing your screens for his third coming on Conan this Easter Monday!
On 9th April, Tim will be joining his fellow ginger, Conan, and appearing alongside Glee star, Cory Monteith, and Dodgers center fielder, Matt Kemp, on tbs at 11/10c.
Previous appearances on the show have had Tim performing Inflatable You and Prejudice, so perhaps this time he’ll be sitting down with Conan for a conversation as well as showcasing his lyrical trickery and musical masterstrokes!
If you’re in Canada, you can catch this on The Comedy Network at midnight on the 9th/10th April and if you’re in Australia, you can watch this on GEM at 11:30pm on 11th April.
Oh, and if you’re in SoCal, don’t forget, Tim’s doing two gigs and an in-store performance in your area in the next week!
The National Trust’s first ever outdoor comedy event ‘Trust In Comedy’ will feature Tim performing with a larger band than usual, including, as ever, the ruggedly handsome* Brad and Pete – we’ll announce more info on this as soon as we can. It takes place at the National Trust’s Belton House in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Friday 15th June at 8pm.
The setting will have a spectacular backdrop, with the stage set in front of the main house.
There is no assigned seating, so you should bring your own picnic rugs, blankets or chairs. There will be food and drink on sale but you can also create and take your own awesomely sophisticated picnics. (CHEESE! WINE!) However, there are strict rules and restrictions with regards to umbrellas, gazebos and BBQs etc so for further information about this please visit www.belton-proms.org.uk or telephone 01476 566116.
Tickets are available now from Grantham Guildhall on 01476 406158 or nationally via www.belton-proms.org.uk and www.seetickets.com on 0871 220 0260.
Tim: “I like big old stuff so I’m looking forward to this big old gig in front of a big old house”.
Brad & Pete: “We like big old hair so we’re looking forward to Tim’s big old barnet doing a big old gig in front of a big old house. Yee haw!” **
* delightfully pretty
** This may not be an accurate quote
Tim will be helping to raise money for the anti-poverty charity War On Want, when he headlines their Comedy Gig on the 1st May at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London!
Also appearing on this amazing bill will be Shappi Khorsandi, Seann Walsh, Robin Ince, Kevin Eldon, Andi Osho, Hal Cruttenden, Frisky and Mannish and more.
War On Want will use proceeds from the night towards their work in fighting the root causes of global poverty. You can read more about the work they do on their website.
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is a relatively small venue, with roughly 1,000 seats, and tickets are already selling fast, so if you want to see Tim up close, be sure to grab yours from TicketWeb quickly!
Unfortunately, we have to announce that this year’s Sonisphere festival at Knebworth is cancelled. Below is a statement from the promoters.
It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012.
Putting the festival together in what is proving to be a very challenging year was more difficult than we anticipated and we have spent the last few months fighting hard to keep Sonisphere in the calendar.
Unfortunately circumstances have dictated that we would be unable to run the festival to a standard that both the artists and that Sonisphere’s audience would rightly expect.
We want to express our deepest regrets to the artists and to thank all the staff, suppliers and contractors who worked so hard with us to try and pull off what has proven to be an impossible task and we know how much they share in our disappointment. We also want to send a huge thanks to the Sonisphere fans who stuck by us and we are so sorry that we can’t fulfil what we set out to do.
Ticket holders will automatically receive a full refund direct from their ticket agents.
Team Sonisphere.
Tim will be rocking up, in some natty attire and with that hair of his, to do a 30 minute in-store performance at Amoeba Music in LA, on Tuesday, April 10th at 6pm. He’ll then hang around to do some signing.
You’ll need to purchase a copy of Ready For This?, Tim’s first US DVD/CD release, that night at Amoeba ($15.98) in order to participate in the signing but you’ll also get a free poster and you’ll be able to get one additional item signed, be it the poster, a canvas bag, a… banana or whatever takes your fancy.
This is likely to be a very popular event, especially as there’s no age limit, so it might be wise to get there a bit early to ensure a decent view.
Amoeba Music
6400 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 245-6400
www.amoeba.com
Tim will be appearing at this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival on the 13th June 2012 at 6.30pm. He’ll be talking with Robin Ince about bringing science and rationalism to his audiences via his musical, lyrical and satirical songs, followed by a short performance.
Tickets go on general sale on the 2nd April at 10.30am, but they’re already selling extremely quickly to festival members!
If you wish, you can find out about and sign up for the Cheltenham Festivals Membership here as that will allow you to book for this and other festival events, right now, before the public booking opens on Monday.
For further information on the show itself, Turning Science into Song, take a look here.
Tim will be joining the lovely and hilarious Richard Herring, as the first guest, in his new London run of Podcasts at the Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 7th May 2012.
Richard Herring, who recently held on to his Chortle Internet Award crown, will be bringing his extremely popular iTunes chart topping Edinburgh Fringe Podcast to London’s Leicester Square Theatre for eight shows May – June. Typically it involves topical humour, comedy chat, improvisation, prizes and more. So, if you fancy seeing Tim jousting* with a fellow comedy knight, fashion icon and facial hair aficionado head along to the podcast recording.
If you can’t make it to the show, due to pesky geography or something, you’ll be able to catch all the episodes on iTunes and the British Comedy Guide.
Tickets and further details can be found here.
* There may not be any actual jousting due to the logistics involved.
Tim has been announced on an astounding bill of comedians for Scope’s Big Comedy Night on 20th May 2012 at Hammersmith Apollo in London!
Tim will be joining Richard Herring, Al Murray, Francesca Martinez, Doc Brown, Hal Cruttenden, Milton Jones and more for a night of japes in aid of the charity, Scope.
The idea of holding a comedy event in support of disabled people came from disability rights campaigner Nicky Clark, who worked with fellow Scope supporters Richard Herring and Francesca Martinez to help the charity secure the line-up.
The event will raise funds for Scope’s work to support disabled people and their families to have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Tickets are on sale now and can be bought from HMVTickets and Ticketmaster!
Matilda the Musical has earned itself a whopping ten nominations for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards, which is the maximum for which it was eligible, including Best New Musical!
The four young actresses playing Matilda – Sophia Kiely, Eleanor Worthington Cox, Kerry Ingram and Cleo Demetriou – are up jointly for Best Actress in a Musical, while Bertie Carvel and Paul Kaye are up for Best Actor in a Musical and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, respectively.
Other nominations go to Matthew Warchus for Best Director, Rob Howells for Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, Hugh Vanstone for Best Lighting Design, Peter Darling for Best Theatre Choreographer and Simon Baker for Best Sound Design.
The Olivier Awards are the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards, recognising excellence in professional theatre in London shows. They’re often considered to be the theatre industry equivalent of the BAFTA Awards or the UK equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards.
The awards will be handed out on the 15th April, at the Royal Opera House. The ceremony will be broadcasted live on BBC Radio 2 and on the BBC Red Button services – who knows, you might even see a nattily dressed Tim (on the TV, not the radio)!
You can view a full list of all the awards and nominees on the Olivier Awards website here.
Huge congratulations to Tim and everyone at Matilda the Musical on this phenomenal news!
Tim will be performing satirically, lyrically and musically with his band*, on the Main Stage at GuilFest 2012, near Guildford, Surrey, on Saturday 14th July.
The festival is held over the weekend of Friday 13th to Sunday 15th July and features eight stages of live music. The full line up is yet to be announced but already confirmed are Jools Holland and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra headlining Friday, with special guest Roland Gift and the Saturday night headliner is Olly Murs, supported by Jimmy Cliff.
Names announced, so far, for the great comedy line up over the weekend include: Jarred Christmas, Mitch Benn, Helen Arney, Jess Fostekew, Danny Ward, Tiernan Douieb, Brian Lacey, Yianni, Matt Richardson, Rich Wilson, Jonny Awsum, Chris Turner, John Mann, John Ryan, Brendan Dempsey, Tom Glover and Mark Simmons.
You can find out more about the festival, look out for further line up announcements and buy your tickets from the festival site here. There are weekend and day tickets available.
* The unreasonably handsome Pete and Brad.
Tim is to perform at The Secret Garden Party 2012, as it celebrates its 10th birthday, at Mill Hill Field in Abbots Ripton on the 19th to 21st July. He’ll be joined on stage by his distinguished band, Pete Clements and Brad Webb. Collectively they’ll surely have no trouble at all in complying with the Arts & Expression theme for this year: “Standing On Ceremony” despite all three being seated for most of the show…
Tickets are now being sold on a tiered system and they are available here.
More information can be found on their Facebook page and the full line up is on the festival website www.secretgardenparty.com
Tim will be pottering over to the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens with his not-at-all-weedy band, Pete Clements and Brad Webb, on the 5th July 2012!
The show is part of their summer series of events, Kew The Music, and Tim will be a special guest to Pink Martini, who are a thirteen member ‘little orchestra’ that draw their inspiration from the romantic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 50s.
Other shows in the series include Status Quo, Will Young, Gypsy Kings and M-People. Details of these shows and tickets purchasing information can be found on the Kew Gardens website.
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