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Bloody hell.
Greetings, once again, from � er � not so sunny Canberra. Feeling a
bit
surreal this morning. A bit displaced? Maybe. Sleep deprived?
Certainly.
Dad has been mucking around with his steroids again and seems to have
written a novel. Mum has had me out doing the lawns but I broke the
mower.
Oops.
Still grinning from ear to ear after seeing Tism last night. As they
thundered around the stage wearing enormous stocks (OK, they were
frames,
but stocks, chains and locks would have been better...slaves to the
rhythm
...who the fuck let Grace Jones in??) it became apparent that these
guys are
going to be doing this for years to come. Never mind the old farts in
the
audience! I got the distinct feeling that we�re going to be seeing
this lot
subverting our grandkids.
I�m sorry to say that we got pissy in the carpark on some terrible
cooler
things (5%!!! We went off!!) before heading into the POW. The gig
started
fairly low key, in fact a recliner and a cup of milo would have gone
down
well and maybe a pair of those pointy Dame Edna glasses�sorry. Need
sleep.
Things progressed nicely , (Yay! They played Club It To Death) and I
must
say that I�ve never enjoyed another Tism song live more than Dillies
Willie
Got Caught In Millies Chinchillie (buggered if I remember how it goes).
My
personal odd point of the show happened half way through when I copped
a
shoe (sans person) to the breasts. I understand this used to be
something
of a Ramones� tradition. Ouch. Ooh, I scored a good swig of whisky and
Coke
from an unwitting soul too (thanks!!).
The mosh behaved, Ron stayed dressed...where did the designated driver t shirt come from? And the stage show was tight and energetic. I suppose
that
negated the need for a tockley gimmick. I�m well aware that it is
unlikely
to remain as such.
So are Tism mere relics of a bygone age? I think not. My newbie
friends
loved it, and I got to spend a nice half hour relaxing with a seasoned
Tism
viewer over what was possibly the worst coffee I�ve had in Melbourne so
far.
In all, the night scored a 10.
Times out!
Have fun tonight you bastards.
Staypuft Stanton
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To: [email protected]
Yah,
I chose to go to the Thursday night show, primarily on
the basis that I would actually be able to find a park
in St Kilda as opposed to Friday night.� I was
pleasantly ripped off $9 in the Prince car park.
The set was pretty much like the Bestoff CD #1.
Excellent all rounder.� My GF now has a new favoutite
TISM song (being Milli Vanilli (sic)) and the TISM
virgin we had in tow was suitably deflowered and
defiled and wants more of that hot sweaty TISM pelvic
thrusting action.
The Big Props they wore were great - I never really
know who was who on stage and the oversized nametags
really helped.� Jon St Peenis (oh, you know the mild
mannered bass player) has really damned distinct
eyebrows to I reckon he'd be easy to spot in Real
Life.� He should manicure them to protect his
identity.
Ron couldn't resist and shamelessly threw himself at
me again, but I won't fall for his attention seeking
antics - at least he didn't tread on my face this
time.
I didn't end up with a free souvineer like I did at
the last TISM gig (you know, one of those muppet
tails) so I had to fork out $30 for a 5 Yards T-shirt.
The same 5 fags kept crowd surfing.� 2 may or may not
have camel bites.
Interesting thing is the my GF and her quivering
devirginised friend both concurred that the hidden
identity thing plus all the daggy yet cool dancing and
antics is sexy.� Not being female I can't get that
drift - perhaps it's that Man of Mystery thing that
women seem to dig so much.� Ms .45, I know you would
have something to say on this matter.� Care to
elucidate?
I was thoroughly satisfied with the show and lament
how quickly it's all over - though like an episode of
the Young Ones, a hell of a lot goes on in the short
period of time.� The encore was 4 (or 5?) songs long.
Being front right of centre I was rendered a smelly
sweaty pig of a man and wandered out at the end
grinning like a damned idiot.
I hope they do some more shows like at the Punters
though - the small stage brings out the man from
behind the facade of cloth, and it's just a whole lot
more initmate - OK and we get to laugh at the small
penii and feel better about ourselves.� We need a spy
at the Evelyn for the low down on not to secret gigs.
I too missed that last week by one night.
Anyway, enough of my rants.� Short of TISM being run
over on St Kilda Road as they step off the tram on the
way to the gig, I don't think there is much chance
that tonight won't be really friggin' excellent for
those that are going.
8.5/10� (Punters was 10/10 and nowt will top it).
JH
From: "TISM Self Storage" Firstly, I need to apologise to Lindsay Coombs. He
tried to tell me to go to the Thursday show, but did I
listen? Noooo. "For $28.50 I can buy the new Dictators
CD" I said smugly, knowing that TISM play the same old
predictable crowd pleasing show every time.
So what fucking happened? THEY FUCKING DIDN'T PLAY
"LET'S CLUB IT TO DEATH"!!!!!
They did play the country version of Defecate, Martin
Scorcese, 40 Years, Five Yards... why the fuck am I
posting this, Fantl's the one with the set list!
As I commented in my previous post ["Lastly, fuck the man of mystery bullshit, both Ron
and Les got their shirts off last night and they're
fuckin' hunks!
Not everything is a deeply hidden Freudian
subconscious desire - sometimes the appeal is right
under your nose... "], lotsa skin on
display - can't complain about that. We even got to
see a bit of Humph, gotta love that. I'd love to
believe it was because I was there but there was wall
to wall quality punani (well, there was when I went to
the dunny - maybe it looked different from the stage),
the woman standing behind me looked like a fucking
model - what was she doing at a TISM gig???!
Dumped a bunch o' prints from the Punters gig on Humph
before the show - I dunno where Brent got John Lydon
from, I reckon he looks like Ralph Fiennes (am I in
yet?). I didn't say anything, I already had that cold
sweat thing that happens whenever I talk to someone
I'm an admirer of and I don't think puking on my GPs
would make a good impression on anyone. (Remind me to
tell you about my conversation with Tim Hemensley
sometime.)
Which of you pricks got backstage? Cos we certainly
didn't. Probably all to the good, really.
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:01:03 -0700 (PDT)
Great gig. Humph waltzed right past me on his walk through the crowd
during "Martin". Nearly got his mask ripped off next to me, but managed
to evade the culprit.
I suffered though, holding onto my 12" vinyl for the entire 4+ hours I
was there. Managed to pogo through most of it while making sure it
didn't get bent as the dickheads kept pushing past to get onto the
floor even though it was packed down there.
Also ... another annoyance ... those people who stand there like
statues while the band is pumping out so much energy! Can't understand
that one ...
Did anyone pick up some of the lyric changes? And what did Jock say as
they went off after the encore?
Great to hear Morisson Hostel again ... I thought Ron'd change from
bagging the Richmond cheer squad to the Carlton one ... easy target
though I guess.
Can someone tell me the supports? Especially the guys on just before
TISM?
Anyway ... classic show, had a great time, so did my wife.
Enjoy next week!
cheers,
mark
From: "Brent Edwards"
Well, this was very exciting for me. Got to meet HBF and rack his brain
about various things which was fantastic and also spoke to Jock, Tokin
&
Eugene. What can I say, they all seem like great guys. Eugene mentioned
that
he feels that because he is up the back of the stage he is the
forgotten
member of the band, so I said that I would try to get the fans up the
front
to do the DE-LA DE-LA chant, which he thought was good. Also Jock
couldn't
believe it when I told him how much I and a few others enjoyed them
playing
"Let's club it to death", he said they decided to play it from the
response
on the website.
If I die tomorrow at least I will be content in the fact I got to meet
Tism.
Oh, and Eugene mentioned the band will keep on going for quite some
time
yet, being part time, they don't see each other enough to get sick of
one
another, which is heartening.
Brent
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:39:11 +1000 (EST)
Was able to go backstage on Friday night in Brisbane and Thursday night in Melbourne!!!
Brisbane was excellent cause there wasn't any family present and the band hung around for about an hour (I think Cheeses' uncle was there) so I got to talk heaps to all the band and drink their beer. Asked Ron to do a rendition of B Attitudes for Melbourne but he said he could not remember how all of it goes!� Too long ago. Humph also said the Dipper song was an early version of I'll 'Ave Ya. Fleur, Tim Herst and Mic were also there.
Melbourne was very busy backstage.�Ron was nowhere to be seen, Humph left very early and Les was there for 5 minutes. The other 4 stayed for a while but it was too crowded to talk to them for a long period of time. Fleur and Eggy were also backstage.
Big Al
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Pt 1
Hello,
We went to see TISM last night!� Lara, Marg and myself and we met up with
some other SCA people.� It was at the Prince of Wales (I had never been
there) and Klinger was the opening band.� Well we missed them and were in
time to cram into the sweaty mosh pit and listen to the "fans" chant
"TISM ARE WANKERS!"
Classy.
So they filed onto the stage... in their usual black outfits with balaclavas
and giant bent picture frames on their heads.� Apparently it's from one of
their album covers.� They had one of their dancers parade a sign before each
song letting the audience know what was next.� To the newbie TISM fan like
myself - it was very helpful.� I only have 2 albums.
They were pretty good.� Visually entertaining and the songs were funny.� The
crowd were wankers, the set a little sloppy and some of their songs don't
translate well live.� You can tell the crowd favourites!� They threw "crap"
into the audience and like rabid dogs they set to tearing it from each
others hands!� Much bouncing (except from milk heavy mothers - Lara and
myself) and the air was moist.
I am glad I went however, I'm not a sweaty crowd type.� Too many personal
space issues.� I also dislike being bounced upon - hurts the toes!� One
lassie waved her pony tail in my face. These are the times I miss being a
smoker and having a lighter handy :-0
TISM didn't really play "that" long and they managed to hold my attention
for most of the set - I have tendency to tune out and mind wander.
My major gripe however is not being able to see.� As stages are low to the
ground, by the time the crowd jams in front of the band you see them from
chest up.� For a tall person like me... that's okay.� For vertically
challenged people like Marg it's not so good.� My gripe is the crowd
surfers.� They block your view of the band with their drunken cartwheeling
and moronic expressions.� However, there was one guy who flapped like a bird
whilst being armed along and I did that was amusing.� So did he...
Perhaps I'm getting old.� I popped in my earplugs to save the few remaining
upright ear hairs (permanent damage from the Ministry gig), planted my feet
and held on.� Not even the two Archers Schnapps (new girly drinks) made me
inclined to join the sweaty throng as they jumped all over one another in
idiotic abandon.� I only felt tizzy (to use a Lara expression!)... the
alcohol wore off fairly quickly.� I think it was forcibly sucked from my
body by the intense body heat generated by the mass moist throng.� I did
feel fairly sticky by the end.
Verdict on the new girly drinks:� Eeoowww.� Very sweet and in no way did I
morph into any of those chickies who drink it in the ads!
I did have fun, I'm thrilled I went and my hearing seems to be intact.
Ness xx
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From: "Azazel W"
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 03:40:21 +0000
Subject: [thecraplist] IT"S FRIDAY PAUL!!!!!
From: �"James Herbert"
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:51:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [thecraplist] IT"S FRIDAY PAUL!!!!!
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Subject: tism: Apology to Lindsay.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: �"Mark"
To: [email protected]
Subject: tism: Last night
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 05:46:50 +1000
Subject: tism: Apology to Lindsay.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TISM Self Storage [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 7:21
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> Subject: tism: Apology to Lindsay.
> --- Brent Edwards
From: �"al gan"
To: [email protected]
Subject: tism: Apology to Lindsay.
From: "Azazel W"
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:07:55 +0000
Subject: [thecraplist] Why you shouldn't hit on chicks at Tism gigs...
