Minchin show added

ORGANISERS of Dark Mofo have announced a second Tim Minchin show after tickets sold out in just 18 minutes yesterday.

The mischief-making muso will present his first solo Australian show in more than a decade during the Darkk Mofo festival at Hobart’s’s Odeon Theatre on June 19.

But organisers have con-n-nfirmed Minchin will perform aa second show on June 18 at thee Odeon. The ticket waiting listst is already over subscribed,, meaning tickets cannot be guaranteed. They will be randomly allocated as people enter the Dark Mofo website, via a link distributed to those on the list on Mon-day around 10am.

An acclaimed musician,n, actor, comedian and compos-ser, Minchin is best known asas the composer and lyricist off the Olivier Award-winning Matilda the Musical, and for protest songs Come Home (Cardinal Pell) and I Still Call Australia Homophobic.

Minchin and long-time David Lynch collaborator Chrysta Bell headline the latest batch of acts announced for next month’s Dark Mofo.

Dream-pop chanteuse Bell, whose performance was one of the highlights of the second Dark Mofo in 2014, will return to Hobart after starring in Twin Peaks: The Return. She will perform at the Avalon Theatre on June 24, joined by fellow Lynch collaborator Rebekah Del Rio. Veteran foreign correspondent Peter Greste — who spent 400 days in an Egyptian prison with two Al Jazeera colleagues — will also be in town, to interview former jihadist Muhammad Manwar Ali at the Odeon on June 10 as part of the Dark and Dangerous Thoughts program.

Guest chefs for the Winter Feast have been announced, with Paula Labaki (Brazil), Monique Fiso (New Zealand) and Melbourne’s Alejandro Saravia, Andreas Papadakis, Charlie Carrington and Bente Grysbaek to collaborate with local chefs. The feast will have more than 70 food and beverage stalls, and host live music by Melbourne-based acts Olympia, Kaiit and Ainslie Wills, and dozens more.

There will also be after-dark experiences at historic sites including the Hobart Convict Penitentiary and the Narryna Heritage Museum.

Dark Mofo is June 13-24, after the prelude weekend, June 8-10. See www.darkmofo.net.au