TISM have beef with NME. Or at least they did in the ’90s, on the cusp of their first jaunt over to the UK. “Our manager at the time foolishly suggested we should make what was known then as an ...

"We're only here because we object strongly to your Double J After Dark right wing patter!" When we saw that infamous, long-dormant band TISM had reformed to play this year's Good Things festival, we ...

We've dug up a classic TISM interview to celebrate 20 years since the release of their biggest album. Today marks 20 years since the release of TISM's massively popular fourth album Machiavelli and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. TISM were undoubtedly Melbourne’s signature cult band and stories about them, whether admiring or scathing, are legion. Here’s mine: in ...

The first time Tony Martin met Damian Cowell he had no idea who was inside the balaclava. Martin was on air with Mick Molloy at Fox FM in Melbourne when two members of techno-rock-satire troupe TISM ...

On a recent Saturday night at the Croxton Bandroom in their home town of Melbourne, TISM – an acronym for This Is Serious Mum – donned matching black attire and balaclavas to play a secret show to a ...