TISM have reformed and will play the Good Things festival in December

The infamous, anonymous band announce their first shows in almost 20 years

It’s the news that so many Australian music fans have been waiting for, yet many believed wouldn’t happen.

Legendary Australian agitators TISM are getting back together for the first time in almost 20 years, with three shows locked in as part of the Good Things festival this December.

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The anonymous Melbourne band are perhaps this country’s biggest ever cult act. Across their initial 30-odd year career they won lots of hearts and courted plenty of controversy.

In the years since their final appearance at the Earthcore festival in 2004 – a performance captured on the live album On Behalf Of TISM I Would Like To Concede We Have Lost The Election – their absence has been keenly felt by their many fans.

The heart need yearn no longer: TISM are shit, and TISM are back.

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Formed in 1982, TISM (which stands for This Is Serious Mum) were a legendary concern in the Melbourne underground before finding mainstream attention in the 90s with albums like Machiavelli and the Four Seasons [1995] and www.tism.wanker.com [1998].

They’ve pissed off about as many people as they have thrilled with their biting observations on everything from fame to geopolitics to sex to pop culture to classism to the nationality of beloved football commentators.

Their blend of highbrow and lowbrow humour, couched in catchy pop hooks and backed by a band playing a music that lands somewhere between punk rock and electro, has never been replicated and probably won’t be.

Who else references geopolitical  in a song about getting smashed at the Big Day Out?

The story of TISM

The mystery, the mayhem, and the merriment of Australia’s most anonymous band.

The band, led by Ron Hitler-Barassi and Humphrey B. Flaubert, will reform for massive shows at the Good Things festival, happening across Australia this December.

If you’ve been longing for the chance to sing ‘I rooted a girl who rooted a guy who rooted a girl who rooted a guy rooted a girl who rooted Shane Crawford’, or ‘Defecate on my face’ at the top of your lungs and not be thrown into a divvy van, your time has come.

They lead a line-up packed with some of the biggest names in heavy music today, including Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, NOFX (playing their 1994 classic Punk In Drublic in full), Millencolin, Soulfly and more.

There’s some Aussie gold in there too, with Regurgitator, Cosmic Psychos, Kisschasy (playing their 2005 debut United Paper People in full) and Chasing Ghosts just a few of the awesome local acts onboard.

Our friends at triple j have more on the full-line up for ya over here.

“TISM will be appearing exclusively at Good Things festival in early December,” the band said in a statement this morning.

“There are no Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Canberra, Darwin, or New Zealand shows. There will not be warm up shows.”

Hear Ron Hitler-Barassi and Humphrey B. Flaubert from TISM on Arvos with Tim Shiel this afternoon.

Here’s the line-up for Good Things 2022:

Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, NOFX, TISM, The Amity Affliction, Gojira, Millencolin, Regurgitator, Cosmic Psychos, ONE OK ROCK, Lacuna Coil, Sabaton, Sleeping With Sirens, Soulfly, The Story So Far, Polaris, RedHook, Kisschasy, Thornhill, 3OH!3, Blood Command, Chasing Ghosts, Electric Callboy, Fever 333, Jinjer, JXDN, Nova Twins

Here are the dates:

Friday 2 December – Flemington Racecourse, MelbourneSaturday 3 December – Centennial Park, SydneySunday 4 December – Brisbane Showgrounds

Tickets are on sale from 10am Thursday 23 June.