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TISM: go you Good Things

Music / June 6, 2023 / 5 minutes of reading

Nineteen years after their last live appearance, the satirical Melbourne band TISM have announced their comeback, with the masked and anonymous collective set to play a series of shows at the Good Things festival in early December. TISM – an acronym for This Is Serious Mum – emerged from suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, […]

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Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine: Get Yer Dag On!

Music / May 1, 2017 / 4 minutes of reading

DAMIAN COWELL was the guy in TISM. We know because he told us so (in a song called I Was The Guy In TISM, recorded with the DC3). Anonymity can be a tough mask to shed. Think of Kiss without the war paint, or the Residents without the eyeballs: what lies beneath can only be a

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