Recently I have started going out to mid-week events more often, this is something I have always kind of done but recently it’s all most every week now, I find it helps one get through the working week. So this week’s mid –week entertainment, well Monday night, was a trip to the Clyde Auditorium to see Tim Minchin with my friend Alan. I got a txt the night before asking if I wanted to go, and to be honest I did not know much at all about Tim Minchin or even who he was until Monday, but with the chance to go to the Clyde Auditorium I was in. Tim Minchin is a kind of comedy act who performs funny type of comedy songs. He clearly has some talent in both performing and writing songs as some of the ideas for the songs and the lyrics themselves are very creative, he is also a very talented musician. However it helped that he had a 15 strong orchestra behind him who really were fantastic, I would happily pay money to sit and listen to them perform all night, the music was so powerful and they even fitted in a few movie scores clips. Tim Minchin himself was very good and put in a good set and I laughed at one or two lyrics in his songs. However I found his continuing talk about religion, or rather his atheist views a bit boring and started to wear thin very quickly. For me he just went on about it a bit too much, there is a time and place for such talks but we went to be entertained with his musical talent not go to listen to his views on religion. I could not give a monkeys crap about his views on religion, I did not even know who he was until Monday Night… get on with the songs!. I never understand why people who are in the public eye and are atheists must tell everyone they are atheists and the reason why. Surely if they have no faith and have no belief in God then they should simple just say “I don’t believe in God man” and that’s the end of it. Why should they feel the need to push their views onto everyone else, if they have no faith then why should they care. Anyway apart from all the religion talk it was a good show and I think he would be better attempting more serious songs rather than comedy songs as the few he did turned out good. The orchestra and lighting effects made the show, I am not sure I would go see him perform again if it was just him and the piano certainly not at £35 per ticket (thankfully I got mine free). However with the orchestra it was a good night. I will rate the show 6 out of 10
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