Tim Minchin, Gilded Balloon
Gilded BalloonTim Minchin - winner of the Melbourne comedy festival's director's choice award - arrives in Edinburgh trailing cloudlets of glory. The Australian comedian/ musician is popular enough to pack out one of the festival's biggest halls, and to be cheered after every gag and comic song.It's enough to make you believe in mass hypnosis. Strip away Minchin's fretful porpentine hair, white piano and willingness …