Confessions?

"I'm too good for that there's a mind under this hat".
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Barry Louis Polisar

—All I Want Is You

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Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You

And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves

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Tim Minchin is getting serious. Next Tuesday, the comedian will play a gig but the set list will include none of the comedy songs he is famed for.

Instead, the event at London’s tiny 100 Club – for which tickets cost £12 – will be a showcase for his rock songs. Before he became a stadium-filling comedian, Minchin studied contemporary music in Perth and played in a band called Rosencrantz. He’d now like to make an album and tells me that has written several new songs, including one about winter. “It has the lyric, ‘I’ll take this battle to the streets. Umbrella-less but undefeated.’ I don’t want to make my songs not quirky.”

He’s aware, though, that the move may alienate some fans who are used to his invective-laden comedy ditties. “Although part of me thinks, ‘You’ve found your home – theatrical and comic music’, another part of me thinks, ‘Bullshit, you’re a songwriter. Go and write a record.’ I don’t have to think about writing an album like Muse but what about Elvis Costello or Randy Newman or anyone writing really interesting, genre-crossing, quirky music? I don’t have to suddenly straighten up and be U2, nor do I have to dump my lyrics. But I’ll probably try and stop swearing so I can get some radio play.”