"I want the viewer to feel like they have been invited into the studio to watch the final dress rehearsal for a concert... "
In support of his forthcoming debut album, Apart Together, Tim Minchin will perform a special one-off concert in Sydney next month.
The Aussie songwriter and comedian will perform the new record - due out on 20 November - in its entirety which will be streamed the night before at the iconic Trackdown Studios.
The performance will include "extraordinary guest musicians, 11 songs, and whatever pours out of Minchin’s brain in between".
“I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make live entertainment in this no-live-entertainment world, and - as always - how to make a virtue of the restrictions placed on us as artists," Minchin said.
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"And I’ve concluded that we have a fantastic opportunity to make a new style of 'live' concerts. Not like the old model, where cameras are inserted into seats in an audience, or put on the shoulder of a camera operator dressed in black, skulking around the edges of the stage, pretending they don’t exist. But instead, I want to bring the audience into the room with us.
"I want the viewer to feel like they have been invited into the studio to watch the final dress rehearsal for a concert, and have been given permission to stand in amongst the band, to sit down next to me (ewww), to be completely inside the experience.
"This album we’ve made really lends itself to this sort of performance: the songs tell stories that ask the listener to stay engaged with every lyric; they are generally very personal; they vary in style from proper all-out rock-pop tracks to seriously intimate ballads.
"I really hope people settle in with a really good set of speakers, a really good friend or two, and a really nice bottle of wine, and let me see if I can’t give them an online performance that isn’t quite like anything they’ve ever seen. Oh. That sounds like porn doesn’t it. *It’s not porn."
Tickets for the show go on sale from midday next Monday (2 November).
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