And the Hi there and welcome to another edition of soda jaker on songwriting. This is Brian here with

Simon and joining us for episode 181 is an Australian musician, songwriter,

composer lyricist and actor who, since the mid-noughties, has been wowing

audiences worldwide with his superior showmanship

and by turns hilarious, touching, searingly intelligent and scathingly satirical songs.

Earlier this year he was appointed a member of the Order of Australia and just a few weeks ago

released what is remarkably his first ever studio album, The Excellent Apart Together on

PMG.

We're over the moon to welcome the impossibly brilliant Tim Minchin to the show.

Tim joined us over Zoom from his native Perth a couple of months back and modestly be damned.

This is a bloody good chat, isn't it say?

He certainly met our expectations, didn't he? He certainly met our expectations didn't he? He did which were pretty

damn high let me tell you. He was throwing diamonds out of us that day. It was a blast. Crazy

that part together is his first proper album in averted commas.

Yeah I suppose there's live recordings of his stage shows out there isn't there like ready for this

but this is the first time he's done the classic singer-songwriter thing in the studio.

Hopefully not the last. Our guest was born in 1975 in Northampton, England,

who Australian parents and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. He was a creative kid and rogue poetry at school. He also started learning piano,

aged dates but gave it up after a few years because he didn't enjoy the discipline. He did, however, pick

it back up again in his teens after starting to write music with his guitarist'sist brother Dan.

Tim went on to attend the University of Western Australia and the W.A Academy of Performing Arts.

After graduating in 1998 he threw himself into a variety of projects over the next few years, such as composing music for

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