Collected Recordings 1986-1993
| TISM | |
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| Also known as | This Is Serious Mum, The Frank Vitkovic Jazz Quartet, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, Late for Breakfast |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Alternative rock, alternative dance, synthpop, dance-rock |
| Years active | 1982–1983, 1984–2004, 2010–2011 |
| Labels | Elvis, Musicland, Phonogram, Shock, FMR, Madman, Sony BMG, genre b.goode |
| Associated acts |
Root! Jock Cheese The DC3 Damian Cowell's Disco Machine |
| Website | www |
| Past members |
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TISM (an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) were a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group were formed on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun, and enjoyed a large underground/independent following. Their third album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995.
TISM were known for their hybrid of dance music and rock'n'roll, high-energy live shows and humorous lyrics. TISM's songs frequently satirised modern culture, celebrities and the entertainment industry, classic literature and art, current affairs, politics and sport. The titles of their songs were often wordplays created by juxtaposing pop culture references with more intellectual ones (for example, "Would the Last Person to Leave Please Turn Out the Enlightenment?", "Jung Talent Time" and the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons).
On 30 December 1982, Damian Cowell ("Humphrey B. Flaubert" – drums and lead vocals), Jack Holt ("Jock Cheese" – guitar, bass and backing vocals) and Eugene Cester ("Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun" – keyboards and backing vocals), recorded a nine-song session called Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance under the name This Is Serious Mum at the home of friend Peter Minack ("Ron Hitler-Barassi"). Minack, Cowell and Cester were members of a group called "I Can Run", which slowly evolved into This Is Serious Mum.
The band's first concert was on 6 December 1983. The Get Fucked Concert at the Duncan McKinnon Athletics Reserve in the small suburb of Murrumbeena was considered a complete failure which caused the band to split up. They reformed in February 1984 and returned to their recordings, experimenting with dark ambient and industrial music, before returning to their rock style. They consider every subsequent performance a "re-union gig".
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