MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MUSICIAN TIM MINCHIN RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘RUBY‘
AND ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘Tim Minchin – Time Machine‘
OUT FRIDAY 25 JULY via BMG
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Tim Minchin today releases his poignant new single “Ruby”, offering a first glimpse into his forthcoming album TimMinchinTimeMachine, set for release on Friday 25 July 2025 via BMG.
A tender and deeply personal track, “Ruby” draws from a real-life story of a mother-daughter bond, complex, bruised, and ultimately full of love. Through lyrical candour and melodic grace, Minchin’s ballad celebrates Ruby’s iconoclastic, creative spirit, but urges her to go easy on her mother, and to hold on to the relationship, no matter how flawed. At its core, “Ruby” speaks to a universal truth: that we tend to want our parents to be perfect, forgetting that they, too, are the results of imperfect parents.
The official video, directed by D.C. Fairhurst and produced by Lucy Green and Michael Lynch features Minchin alongside two performers, Linda Gamblin and Tayla Gartner expressing the mother and daughter’s story through dance. Each coloured frame reflects the spectrum of tension, heartbreak, and a heartbreakingly ambiguous resolution.
TimMinchinTimeMachine is a carefully curated anthology of 11 songs from his past: some long hidden in the archives, others revisited and reimagined, but all written before he became known. Together, these songs form a cohesive body of work that captures Minchin’s singular voice as a songwriter and storyteller. It follows his critically acclaimed debut studio album Apart Together, which earned four stars from The Independent, praised as “a tenderly considered pop album that subverts expectations.”
Tim Minchin said: “Twenty years ago, when I fell into comedy, I put my hopes of a recording career on the shelf. After 2020’s Apart Together, I started thinking about properly producing some of the tunes I wrote in my prolific-but-obscure twenties. I was just going to leak these tunes without fanfare, but when BMG heard them, they convinced me that they deserved an album of their own. Young-me would be very stoked indeed to see this project live.”
In celebration of 20 years since his explosive arrival on the UK comedy scene, Minchin will hit the road this UK summer with his ironically titled tour, Songs The World Will Never Hear. Kicking off on 4 June 2025, the tour will span 20 cities across the UK, including three sold-out nights at the legendary Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith.
Following the success of Apart Together and his acclaimed live performances across the UK and Australia, Time Machine signals a new chapter in Minchin’s musical journey, one that looks both backwards and forwards, capturing the beauty, complexity and absurdity of life through song.
“Ruby” by Tim Minchin is out now.
Tim Minchin’s new album TimMinchinTimeMachine will arrive Friday 25 July 2025.
Pre-order / save the album HERE.
TimMinchinTimeMachine Tracklist
1. Understand It
2. I Wouldn’t Like You
3. Ruby
4. The Song of The Masochist
5. You Grew On Me
6. Dark Side
7. Pop Song
8. Moment of Bliss
9. Rock n Roll Nerd
10. If All You Ever Had Was Love
11. Not Perfect
About Tim Minchin
In addition to two decades of award-winning live performance and multiple recorded specials, Tim is the composer and lyricist of smash-hit stage musicals, Matilda and Groundhog Day. He is also a screenwriter (of the award-winning Upright, in which he stars alongside House of The Dragon’s Milly Alcock), and a screen actor, (Atticus Fetch in Californication, Friar Tuck in Robin Hood 2018, Darius Cracksworth in Disney’s The Artful Dodger). He is a public speaker, and a book of his commencement speeches, You Don’t Have to Have a Dream, was recently published by Penguin Random House. Stage roles include his acclaimed Judas in the 2014 UK / Australian Arena Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and Rosencrantz in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He is a voice actor, has published two children’s books and a graphic novel, and sometimes get into trouble for criticising fundamentalists of all stripes. His 2020 studio album, Apart Together, peaked at #2 on the ARIA charts. Among many accolades, he has won two Olivier Awards for Best Musical, a British Composers Award for Best Score, a Logie for Best Supporting Actor, an ACTAA for best TV comedy performance, an Edinburgh Comedy Award for best Newcomer, a Whats On Stage Award for Best Actor in a Musical, The Richard Dawkins Award for Science Communication, and an Order of Australia for Services to the Arts and the Community. He has been nominated for some Tonys and a Grammy.
