TISM are doing what TISM do best.
Turning expectation inside out, flipping the bird to convention, and announcing a single, exclusive Melbourne performance that they’re already insisting will never happen again.
Dubbed ‘W*ers Of The World, Unite!’**, the one off show will take place at PICA in Melbourne on Saturday, May 2nd, landing shortly after the band’s two already sold out Sydney Opera House concerts this April.
There’s no tour or second Melbourne date, just one night, one room, and whatever masked fun they decide to unleash.
Since emerging in the late 1980s, TISM have built a reputation that doesn’t really fit neatly into Australian music history, entirely anonymous, often balaclava clad, and wilfully genre agnostic, the band have bounced between dance, pop, rock, satire, and outright provocation across seven studio albums, multiple ARIA nominations, two ARIA wins, and millions of streams.
After years in the wilderness, TISM resurfaced quietly in 2022 with secret shows and a set at Good Things Festival, before returning properly in 2024 with the ‘Death To Art’ Tour. That run they were supported by Machine Gun Fellatio, Eskimo Joe, and The Mavis’s, and tied to the release of ‘Death to Art’, their highest charting album since 1995’s ‘Machiavelli and the Four Seasons’.
That 1995 release remains a cultural touchstone, it marked a stylistic shift and pushed TISM into mainstream visibility without sacrificing their refusal to explain themselves, and delivered an ARIA Award for Best Independent Release. It also placed three tracks in triple j’s Hottest 100, including enduring cuts like ‘(He’ll Never Be An) Ol’ Man River’ and ‘Greg! The Stop Sign’.
Ticket details
This upcoming Melbourne show is being positioned as something different again, a singular performance, tailored to the space, and deliberately unrepeated.
Early bird presales begin tomorrow (February 11th) at 11am AEDT, here.
General tickets on sale Friday (February 13th) at 11am AEDT, here.
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