1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: Jumps with Jones and Amanda. 2 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 2: To the deep sound of Tim Minchin. That's leaving La. 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 2: That's one of the songs from a new album called 4 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: A Part Together. This is Tim's debut solo album. I'm 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: done by that, he joins us. 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 3: Now, Tim, hello, jonesy Hello, Amanda. 7 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 4: You're very very well. You're zooming as you're from behind 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 4: the wheel of your car, but you've you've stopped and you're. 9 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 3: I'm in a car park, yep. I'm sitting in the 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 3: car park of an editing suite where to launch this album. 11 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: We're doing a streaming concert that we've worked our guts 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: out on and we're just finishing the edit today and 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 3: then getting it uploaded. So I'm going in to make 14 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 3: sure they've taken the pinks out of my skin. 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: You so often you've we I know that you write 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: songs thematically, for example with Matilda, and you've written satirical 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: songs and things. How different was it for you to 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: just write songs that you felt like writing. 19 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a bit scary, actually, because I started 20 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 3: writing songs when I was ten, and so I've gone 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: through many years of just writing whatever comes into my head. 22 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 3: But as of about fifteen years ago. I've really not 23 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 3: done it. And as you say, I've got used to 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 3: writing on a brief basically, you've got a new comedy 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 3: show come up, these are these are the issues in 26 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 3: society I want to satirize, or this is a five 27 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 3: year old girl who I want to reflect her feelings 28 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 3: and stuff. And so the question of what do I 29 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 3: write was a little bit daunting, especially because I'm like 30 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 3: forty forty something like boring middle class dad. But as 31 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 3: I sat down, I realized I have lived around the world, 32 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 3: and I have experienced some things and observed some stuff, 33 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 3: and I'm actually really stoked with how it came out. 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 3: But yeah, initially I was like, what do I say? 35 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: Do I just like talk about my cutlery or something? 36 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 4: I love song? Do you remember what you wrote as 37 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 4: a ten year old? 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 3: Well, as a ten year old, and I'm watching my 39 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 3: son who's eleven, and I'm starting to write you you 40 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 3: just ate what you're here, so you tend to write 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 3: love songs. I remember, Yeah, I had a chorus when 42 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: I was about twelve that went hanging my head down low, 43 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: I don't want you to go. It was like, I 44 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 3: don't know, it sounds like, so I was just talking. 45 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 2: The rhyme is everything, is there. It's all about the 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 2: rhyme when you're young. 47 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 4: Rhyme Yeah, rhyme with fart. That's great. 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the ideal. 49 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 4: That's yea, So are there. 50 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: I know some of the songs are romantic, some have 51 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 2: some pathos to them. Is it just the length and 52 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: breadth of life? 53 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I'm just trying to talk. I mean, 54 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 3: in the end, if I'm going to be sort of 55 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: hearty farty about it. 56 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: There's a rhyme. 57 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 3: It's kind of about you know, how fast time's moving 58 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 3: and you know. And the album is called a Part Together, 59 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 3: even though it was written pre COVID. It is a 60 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 3: lot about because I've spent so much time away from 61 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: my family, away from my country, and Sarah and I 62 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 3: have done a lot of moving and leaving friends. There's 63 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: a lot of sort of themes of departure and absence 64 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 3: and stuff. But what the reason I'm happy with the 65 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 3: record is all those experiences of being a comedian, of 66 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 3: being a theatrical songwriter. Rather than try and shake them off, 67 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 3: it's just all in there. So it is a pop 68 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 3: album of sorts, but all that theatricality, that the songs 69 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: are very storytelling. They're often, you know, quirky and a 70 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 3: bit funny and whimsical, but they're not trying for punchlines. 71 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 3: It's a proper studio album. And Yeah, and the other 72 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: thing is it works I think as a record which 73 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 3: you guys would remember and half the people listening wouldn't remember. 74 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 3: You used to go to the record shop and get 75 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 3: a record and sit down and listen to it from 76 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: go to Woe and that would be your experience of it. 77 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 3: And although people don't do that much, I'm really encouraging 78 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 3: my fans and stuff to listen to it like that 79 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 3: because it works as a as a kind of sweeter story. Yeah. 80 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 2: Have you got any cover art? 81 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: Yeah? 82 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 3: Cover art's an awesome Damian Bennett photo, but also a 83 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 3: photo of me like reclining on my piano like Haate 84 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 3: Winslet and the Titanic oft me like one of your 85 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 3: French girls. Because that I came out in the Australian 86 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: newspaper magazine. Should have seen the comments under that they 87 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 3: love me over there on the the right wing press. 88 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 4: I love you, Tim, It's a treat to talk to you. 89 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: The debut solo album, Apart Together, is available now. Tim 90 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 4: Min should thank you for joining us. 91 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 3: Thanks so much for your time. 92 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: Guys, have a great day with and Amanda.