ODE TO RIVER PHOENIX BY 'T.I.S.M' AKA 'THIS IS SERIOUS MUM' . . . . OFFICIALLY TITLED "[HE'LL NEVER BE AN] OLD MAN RIVER" . . . . THE MASKED MEN OF AUSSIE ART ROCK, IRREVERANT, EDUCATED AND INSIGHTFULLY OFFENSIVE . . . . I LOVED EM !!!!

DURING THE EIGHTIES AND THE NINETIES THERE WAS NO MORE OUTRAGEOUS TIME TO BE HAD THAN A TISM GIG, BITING BLACK HUMOUR SATIRISTS AND MUSICAL TERRORISTS, INNOVATIVE, SHARP AS . . . . CHANNELING THE RESIDENTS MORPHED WITH DANCE PUNK DEAD KENNEDY'S, THESE TERTIARY EDUCATED SMARTARSE PISSTAKERS MANAGED TO FREAK OUT THE SQUARES AND THE UNDERGROUND HIPSTER ELITE SIMULTANEOUSLY . . . . ANONYMITY WAS THEIR GREATEST GIFT.

THE NINJA ASSASINS OF ALL THINGS SACRED WERE THE TITTIES FOR ANYONE WHO LIKED IN YA FACE LYRICAL CONTENT, PUMPED AND PULSING, THROBBING GRISTLE DERIVED NOISE OVERKILL AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR SOCIETAL NORMS LAMBASTED AS NEVER BEFORE . . . .

NOBODY HAD A FUCKING CLUE WHO THEY WERE, SO SUCCESSFUL WAS THEIR PERFECT PRETENCE WITH EVER EVOLVING MASKS AND DISGUISES, THOUGHT TO BE HIGH END ACCOUNTANTS AND LAWYERS, THEY WERE KILLING THE SYSTEM FROM WITHIN . . . . TO THIS DAY I DON'T THINK ANYONE COULD DEFINITIVELY NAME ALL THE MEMBERS OF THESE MUSICAL MERCENARIES.

PUTTING SHIT ON THE BIG END OF TOWN, THE OLD MONEY, PRIVATE SCHOOL SAUSAGE FACTORIES, HOLLYWOOD HODOWNS, PERVERTED POLITICAL MACHINATIONS AND THE LIKE WAS NEVER SO MUCH BOOZE FUELED FUN . . . . HITTING RAW NERVES EVERYTIME . . . . BLOODY EXCELLENT WORK !!!!



***** I HAD A QUICK VISIT TO THE WIKI SITE . . . . APPARENTLY NOW THEIR REAL NAMES ARE LISTED, ESSENTIAL READING TO GET AN IDEA OF HOW MUCH TURMOIL THEY MANAGED TO CREATE . . . . SERIOUSLY, GO, GO NOW, LEARN SOME SHIT !!!!