REHABILITATING TISMAHOLICS
... in London, New York, Berlin and Springvale
NEWS AND CURRENT PROJECTS
The next single from De Rigueurmortis, Honk If You Love Fred Durst, has been released.
Additional tracks on the single are Won't Get Fooled Again, Again and We Are All Of Us In The Gutter, But Some Of Us Are Looking At The Sewerage.
A bumper sticker is being distributed as a promotional item. It is the same as the picture on the Official site, but has "TISM" in white text inside the fish symbol. 3PBS in Melbourne are giving them away.
More details on the Festival Mushroom site.
UPCOMING GIGS
The Official site suggests there may be a national tour in Autumn.
[Sources for the above: the craplist, the Official TISM Page, Festival Mushroom Records site, eggy! and Richard Miles.]
RECENT GIGS - THE FATBOY SLIM DUSTY TOUR
January 31: Punters' Club, Melbourne
February 1: The Globe, Perth
December 15: Annual Meredith Music Festival, Victoria
December 8: Homebake, Sydney
December 7: Prince of Wales, Melbourne (with Mrs Pinkwhistle and Legends of Motorsports)
November 16: Heaven, Adelaide (with with Fez Perez)
November 15: The Laundry, Melbourne (RRR live-to-air gig.
November 2: Metro, Sydney (with Six Ft Hick and High Society)
November 1: Arena, Brisbane (with with Not From There and Chucknee)
September 28: HiFi Bar, Melbourne (with Fur Patrol and Cassette)
September 27: HiFi Bar, Melbourne (with The Titanics and Cassette)
September 20 and 21: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne ("secret" gigs)
August 30: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne ("secret" gig)
The first 200 victims who showed up at the HiFi bar, Arena and Metro gigs received a free CD, The Making of De Rigueurmortis.
If you saw or are planning to see TISM on the Fatboy Slim Dusty Tour - send us your reviews and photos. All contributors will be fully acknowledged.
RELEASE NEWS
TISM's new album, De Rigueurmortis, has been released. It comprises 14 listed tracks and 17 unlisted shorter tracks. The Official site has artwork available and a track-by-track commentary from TISM. The initial release is the "connosieurs' edition", coming with the bonus CD, 2 Pot Screama, a 43-minute rock opera telling the tale of one boy’s rite of passage in gangland Springvale. TISM describe it as “West Side Story with Tourette’s Syndrome”.
David Cox from the craplist has made a 5 Mb RealPlayer file of the If You're Not Famous At Fourteen film clip available at the Yahoo Craplist site File area (you need to join the Yahoo Craplist to access this). Unfortunately there is a daily download limit for the group, which may have been exceeded.
[Source for the above: Official TISM Page and FMR site.]
OTHER NEWS
September 28, 2001: TISM played the same set at the HiFi bar as they did at the Evelyn on September 20 and 21. The following "new" songs, along with a few oldies (Whatareya?, I'll Have Ya, All Homeboys Are Dickheads, Greg! The Stop Sign!, Saturday Night Palsy, Defecate On My Face, (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River and Death Death Death):
- If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished
- Five Yards
- Fourteen Years In Rowville
- X-Ttreme Sports Can Kiss My Arse
- Thou Shalt Not Britney Spear
- Honk If You Love Fred Durst
- Fatboy Slim Dusty
- Channel Turd
- Schoolies Week
- BFW
September 21, 2001: TISM film their new video clip for "If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished" at Ringwood Secondary School. Ringwood Secondary School also featured in the "Thunderbirds" film clip. [Source: Jeffrey Coffman on the craplist.]
September 21, 2001: TISM appear on JJJ at 9am with Francis Leach, judging the JJJ National Anthem competition. [Source: eggy! on the craplist.]
September 18, 2001: TISM make number 69 in Ralph Magazine's October issue feature, '100 greatest Australian bands list. [Source: eggy! on the craplist.]
August 16, 2001: TISM sign with Festival Mushroom Records ending their 10 year deal with Shock.
August 9, 2001: TISM make an appearance in the September 2001 issue of Australian Rolling Stone in an article entitled X Rated - the 50 Filthiest Rock Songs. No surprise that the TISM song that is mentioned is Defecate.
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