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Tim is appearing once again on Never Mind The Buzzcocks on BBC Two next week; they seem to love him over there. It will air at the following times:

• Wednesday 11th November, 10pm (England, Scotland, Wales only)
• Thursday 12th November, 11:20pm (Northern Ireland only)
• Sunday 15th November, 10:30pm (all regions)

This time, the guest host will be Mark Watson, with the other guests being Shingai Shoniwa, Donal McIntyre and Daniel Merriweather.

And, of course, if you’re scatterbrained and completely forget and miss all of this, you’ll be able to stream it on the BBC iPlayer for a week

‘So F**king Rock Live’ is being repeated on E4: Sunday 1st November at 23.10. So if you’ve been snoozing and not yet seen it then tune in and let Tim rock your funky socks…

If you’ve already seen it you may like to watch it again…who’ll know?

Permission to giggle? Granted.

Tim will be appearing on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross tomorrow, 23rd October. The other guests include 50 Cent, Joanna Page, Boy George and Jamie Cullum.

The programme will air on BBC One at 10:35pm, with a repeat being broadcast on Saturday night/Sunday morning at 12:45am and it will also be on BBC iPlayer for seven days afterwards for those of you in the UK.

Tim will return to Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide on 20th February 2010, for extra giggles.

Tickets go on sale on Monday October 26th here.

Tim has been nominated for the award of Comedic Talent of the Year in the 2009 GQ Australia Man of the Year Awards alongside Lawrence Leung, Charlie Pickering, Josh Thomas and Dave Hughes.

The winners will be announced at the Men of the Year Awards night, in Sydney, on the 19th November. If Tim wins he may get giddy enough to buy a new pair of trousers or a hat, oh yeah.

Australians can vote for him here!

A second Canberra date has been added to Tim’s Australian tour on 7th December, same time, same place as the last one (8pm, Canberra Theatre). Tickets go on sale on Monday from the Canberra Theatre website, [here]

Tim’s DVD, ‘So F**king Rock Live’ has been re-released today in the UK as a special edition, available exclusively from HMV both in stores and online. Essentially, it’s the same old DVD but with fun new packaging for Christmas.

This version of the DVD contains a lyric booklet to help you sing along with all the songs from the show as well as a second bonus disc full of extras, including sing-along Canvas Bags, several performances from The Sideshow and various other TV appearances.

And for those of you overseas, it can be imported to most countries though, in most cases, you’ll only be able to watch it on your computer. Better than nothing though, right?

Order it online [here]

Tim will be appearing at the first ever TAM London event (3rd & 4th Oct). Unfortunately tickets sold out ages ago (11th May, to be precise) but if you’ve been lucky enough to grab a ticket, Tim will be previewing an animated video for his beat-poem about rational thinking, ‘Storm’, and also playing a short set.

Matilda!
We can finally un-shush! Tim is currently writing the music and lyrics for the musical ‘Matilda’ with the Royal Shakespeare Company: an adaptation of the Roald Dahl children’s story about a very bright and rebellious little girl, with special powers. Mathew Warchus is directing, with a script by Dennis Kelly. It’s expected to open around Christmas 2010, in Stratford-upon-Avon.

You don’t need wits like Matilda’s to know this is going to be mind-blowing!

Due to a flatteringly high demand for tickets (which Tim will simply not allow to go to his head) several more dates have been added to the Australian Tour 2009. In fact there are now dates in the…future… 2010!

There is an additional date in Brisbane at QPAC in December 2009 and then in February 2010: Melbourne Palais Theatre, Sydney The State Theatre and Newcastle Civic Theatre.

For more information take a look at the GIGS page.

A third night at the Hammersmith Apollo on the 25th October has been announced. Tickets are on sale now from Ticketmaster, online [here], on the phone (08448 44 47 48) and at outlets.

Be there or be tragically unhip!

Ahhhh festivals. Last week I did the Big Chill. I got muddy cowboy boots which I still haven’t cleaned and briefly resented all the good-looking young people in deliberately comical hats and accidentally comical sunglasses… but then I did a really fun set in front of many of them and was yanked from my curmudgeonousness. Thanks, Youth.

The related news is this: I’m playing at Reading Festival on Friday 28th August and Leeds Festival on Saturday 29th August. I think I’ll be playing in the afternoons, but I’m not sure. And I don’t know how long I’ll be doing, but prob 30 mins or something. Think they’ll be fun.

Loads of cool acts there, including lovely friends of mine like Jamie Kilstein, Brendon Burns, Sarah Millican, Doug Stanhope and Stephen Grant.

Slightly updated list of places and venues below. Go to the GIGS page for details and links.

[A note on Inverness: I’m really sorry this date was pulled. Apparently the venue were unable to confirm my booking, so we had to bow out. We’re hoping to put a show on in Edinburgh that night instead. Which will be great, as I’m not going to the festival this year, but a bit sad, cos I really wanted to get further up north. Sigh. ]

Manchester Lowry; Derby Assembly Rooms; Warrington Parr Hall; Swansea Grand; Swindon Wyvern; Cheltenham Town Hall; Cardiff St Davids Hall; Southampton Guildhall; Norwich Theatre Royal; Buxton Opera House; Dublin Vicar Street; Brighton Dome; St Albans Alban Arena; Stoke-on-Trent Victoria Hall; York Grand Opera House; Cambridge Corn Exchange; High Wycombe Swan; Birmingham Town Hall; Coventry Warwick Arts Centre; Bradford St Georges Hall; Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall; Bristol Colston Hall; Reading Hexagon; Newcastle City Hall; Perth Perth Concert Hall; Dunfermline Alhambra; Edinburgh Usher Hall; Glasgow Pavilion; Aberdeen Music Hall; Bournemouth Pavilion; Belfast Ulster Hall; Sheffield City Hall; Oxford New Theatre; London Hammersmith Apollo; Northampton Royal & Derngate; Nottingham Playhouse; Birmingham Symphony Hall.

So, just a couple of weeks til I start my tour of the frickin world. By which I mean Australia and New Zealand. And by New Zealand, I mean Auckland. And by Australia I mean some bits. The shows are selling pretty fast with some already completely sold out, so I reckon you should book, eh. 

EDIT: this was a post in which i replied to an email sent to me by a Homeopath who had found some comments I made in an Australian newspaper disparaging. A justifiable criticism, as I am often disparaging towards alternative medicine in both my act and – if the topic is raised – in interviews. 

I have removed it, as my job is to find funny ways of putting these opinions across, and in posting my response unsatirically I was crossing over into science blogging – a very well-populated sphere.

I am glad I posted it, because it created a conversation, and hopefully even made a few people look a bit further into this particularly insidious form of mumbo-jumbo. 

However, I don’t want to get into a situation where people Google me and find an abrasive essay on alternative medicine. I’d rather they found a stupid song. 

If you are interested in this topic, there are a million places to go. Check out Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog. Or go to Quackwatch – an extremely thorough resource. Steve Novella’s Science Based Medicine blog is- like all his work – wonderful.

Or for some building blocks type any of the following phrases into Google or Wikipedia:
Causal Fallacy
Confirmation Bias
Falsifiability
Scientific Method
Pseudoscience

… and get in amongst it.

This is the shit that gets me excited. This is my porn.
Is that wrong?
Happy reading. Tim.x
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