Yay! Includes ‘The Interval Song’, which has always amused me.
Review from Dean Love from the Fringe Festival about the show, from which this album comes from:
“But the songs, oh the songs, are uniformly magnificent. They swing from clever through satirical all the way into silly, with an occasional diversion into parody. There’s less piano-based tracks and greater use of backing tapes in this show, which is a little jarring at first but you soon adapt. While the title of the show: “Ready For This?”, doesn’t suggest or promise a theme, a clear one nevertheless soon develops: rationalism. Minchin believes in science and has little time for those that don’t. While it’s possible for a theme such as this to devolve somewhat into just attacking those that disagree with you, it’s Minchin’s consistency in his point of view that raises the whole thing to another level. Yes, he takes the obvious pot-shots at alternative medicine and the Bible, but he also takes the time to assassinate the romantic notion of love through the medium of RnB parody song “If I Didn’t Have You (Someone Else Would Do)”. You may well find you don’t agree with a lot of things Minchin says, but he says them in a funny enough fashion it’s hard to be genuinely offended.
…I’ll admit that my heart sank when around halfway through Tim announced he was about to start a nine-minute beat poem, but my lack of faith was proved foolish when it turned out to be one of the highlights of the show with some brilliantly witty lines.
…There’s a fun set-piece to end the show and the encore is just beautiful. It’s actually a fairly serious ballad: it has some funny bits, but at it’s core is just this amazing song. It’s possible I’m biased due to certain things in my life at the moment causing the lyrics to hit me like a sack of bricks but it left me positively breathless.”
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You lucky #$&*^%$#! Me want it too!
His show here in Adelaide was seriously shifted towards rationalism too. Hope it remains a successful theme for him.
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