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.
Due to the high demand for his satirical lyrical trickery, musical athleticism and sanguine wardrobe choices, Tim’s added a second show at Largo at the Coronet in LA on the 10th April 2012.
Tickets are available exclusively online via Largo’s website here.
This is an intimate venue, holding just 280 people. Tim’s gigs always sell out very quickly so best snap up those tickets fast!
Next month Tim will be heading to two more cities in Southern California to inspire, amaze and awe their residents with the perfect combination of lyrical trickery, sexy dance moves, skin-tight jeans, wonderfully coiffed hair and magical piano skills!
If you’re in the area, you’ll be able to catch Tim in Santa Barbara, at the Lobero Theater, on the 11th April 2012 and in San Diego, at the Balboa Theater, on the 12th April 2012.
Tickets for these evenings of hi-jinx and stupid songs go on sale on 9th March at 10am, however, there are presales happening for both shows – the San Diego one has already started and the Santa Barbra one is from tomorrow at 10am! The password you’ll need in both cases is SAXOPHONE. You can grab your Santa Barbara tickets from the venue’s website and you can buy your San Diego tickets from Ticketmaster.
Tim will be headlining a delightful one-off day of humour at the home of the famous Eden Project Biomes, near St Austell, Cornwall, on Saturday 23rd June 2012. He’ll be joined, for his comedy Eden Session, by his band, the heavenly Pete Clements and Brad Webb. More of the acts will be announced soon.
Tickets cost £35 plus booking fee and for your booking pleasure an exclusive, limited pre-sale has just opened! Simply click here to book. The site will open at 10am and the ticket entitles the bearer for the whole day of the gig and the day after. The acts usually start from midday with headliners on around 8.30pm-9pm.
The rest go on general sale at 6pm on Tuesday 13th March. To book these contact:
The Eden Box Office on 01726 811972 or visit www.edensessions.com.
The Eden Project is a charity running inspirational social and environmental programmes as well as putting on wonderful arts and music events. To find out more and for how to get there visit www.edenproject.com.
So… head to the beautiful gardens of Eden for some musical and comedic environmentalism, rationalism and Tim(ism).
Apple anyone?
UPDATE (21st May 2012): Craig Campbell, the acclaimed Canadian stand-up comedian, who now lives in Devon, England, with his dog Ludo, will be doing a thirty minute warm-up for Tim. At the moment it is not known if Ludo will be joining him…
Your favourite stupid-haired pianist, Tim, and his lovely band, will be heading to the picturesque Henham Park in Suffolk for the Latitude Festival, which runs from the 12th to the 15th July!
Tim and co will be performing in the Comedy Tent, a tent whose bill also includes comedians including Jack Dee, Greg Davies, Rich Hall, Mark Watson, Nick Helm and The Infinite Monkey Cage!
There’ll also be musical performances from Paul Weller, Elbow, Laura Marling, The Horrors and Bon Iver, while there’s a whole load of things happening in the Literary, Cabaret and Film tents including the Early Edition, The Horne Section and Pappy’s!
Tickets are on sale now from the Latitude website, where you can also view the rest of the lineup.
I wonder what colour the sheep will be this year…
Tim will be joining a great comic line up including Jimmy Carr and Jon Richardson for Teenage Cancer Trust’s comedy night at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 2nd April 2012. Jason Manford will host the evening which is the penultimate show in Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual series at the iconic London venue.
The series of concerts kick off on Wednesday 28th March with Roger Daltrey and special guests, and finishes on Tuesday 3rd April with Florence & the Machine.
Further details about the series of shows can be found here and the support acts will be announced shortly. Tickets are on sale now from the following agencies:
The Royal Albert Hall
0845 401 5030
HMV Tickets
0843 221 0100
Ticketmaster
0844 844 0444
Gigs and Tours
0844 811 0051
Teenage Cancer Trust’s work is vital and funded solely by donations. To find out more and how you can help please visit www.teenagecancertrust.org. Eleven years of concerts, all put together by longstanding patron Roger Daltrey CBE, have raised over £14 million for Teenage Cancer Trust. All money raised has helped the charity to build more specialist teenage cancer units in NHS hospitals across the UK, allowing young people to be treated together with others their own age, in an environment suited to their needs.
Tim will be appearing as a special guest at RockNess on Sunday 10th June 2012.
The RockNess festival is held 8th – 10th June, at Clune Farm, Aldourie, near Inverness, right on the shore of the beautiful Loch Ness.
Day tickets are already on sale (with no booking fee until 9am on the 9th March) and can be obtained here along with the full line up across all three days and further details.
Tim will be performing solo but will bring his rockness, satiricalness, lyricalness, awesomeness, gingerness, and sheer glamourousness and attempt to out frickin’ ‘ness’ everyone including that monster for which, as yet, there is no reliable empirical evidence. If only I could remember its name…
Who can forget Tim’s ironic iconic dance moves over the past few years? From the sultry wiggle in If I Didn’t Have You and the highly polished routine in Bears Don’t Dig on Dancing to the high kicks in If You Really Loved Me and the French waltz in Cheese, Tim is an expert when it comes to comedy choreography!
Given these credentials, who else, is better qualified to judge this Saturday’s Let’s Dance for Sport Relief?
Yes, that’s right. On 3rd March, 7pm on BBC One, Tim will be sitting alongside fellow comics Ed Byrne and Katy Brand to appraise the contestants’ interpretations of classic dance routines as they vie for a spot in the series’ final.
Tomorrow’s contestants will be Scott Mills, Olly Murs, Omid Djalili, Tyger Drew Honey, Kirsten O’Brien and Arabella Weir and there’ll be musical performances from Chris Isaak and Tinchy Stryder & Pixie Lott.
Maybe he’ll end up teaching them a step or two – you’ll have to tune in to find out!
Photo: Kalpesh Lathigra/DMBMEDIA
Did you know that you share 96.4% of your DNA with orangutans? You can proudly show off this fact, by purchasing one of the t-shirts, as modelled by the lovely Tim on the right, from the Sumatran Orangutan Society’s online shop.
In addition to this, the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) are also holding some Jungle VIP auctions where you can win various items from celebrities, and one of these items is the shirt that Tim wore during his ‘Ready For This?’ tour! You can start bidding tonight from 8pm at the SOS’s eBay page.
Proceeds from the auctions and t-shirt sales will go to the SOS so that they can continue their work in helping protect the critically endangered Sumatran orangutans and the apes’ environment.
More information about the work they do, and about the other Jungle VIP auctions, can be found on the SOS’s Jungle VIP website.
Tim’s extending his stay in LA to play an intimate show at Largo at the Coronet on the 9th April 2012!
The venue holds a measly 280 people, so if you want to see this panda-eyed Australian up close and personal, you’d better get a move on as the show is already on sale!
Tickets are available exclusively online at Largo’s website here.
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