Sign The Petition To Revive TISM Especially For Eurovision
MORE LIKE EURO-TISM, AMIRITE
Following this morning's news that Australia will be participating in this year's Eurovision Song Contest after apparently impressing the competition with our stereotype-soaked Jess Mauboy vehicle in 2014, a petition has sprung up online calling for the reformation of the one Aussie act who could truly do us justice on the international stage: TISM.
As crazy a suggestion as it might seem at first glance, it's actually not all that crazy at all — TISM were a band renowned as much for their theatrics and outrageous behaviour as they were their incisive lyrics, and frankly we're hard put to find a reason that the always-colourful outfit wouldn't fit right in with a competition field that once famously gave its top honours to a Finnish metal band.
It would seem that petition creator Andrew Wade is of a similar mindset, with the general conceit behind the drive being that, newly endowed with "a chance to scream that our incredibly vibrant local music scene is more than AC/DC's testicular imagery, … we have a chance to tell the world that, goddammit, This Is Serious Mum".
"We, the undersigned, humbly request that landmark Australian rock band TISM reform and take charge of the Eurovision stage," the petition brief reads. "Since you left us in 2004, we've had a never-ending parade of gormless, depressing electro-indie, depressing indie-folk, and depressing Aussie hip-hop."
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TISM remain infamous in Australian music lore for the way they so boldly and routinely flouted the system, succeeding as a unit despite their adherence to anonymity and song titles such as I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt. Founding member Damian Cowell — the sole member to voluntarily blow the lid off their time in the band — has been keeping busy ever since the band's dissolution 11 years ago through several decreasingly anonymous outings, most recently by bringing together a bunch of "real musicians" for the first time to help him create the album that would become Damian Cowell's Disco Machine.
Scheduling and other concerns aside, though (like, how would you even begin to choose what song to play?), it sure would be nice to see some bona fide cult Aussie heroes reunite to take to the grand Eurovision stage to bust out All Homeboys Are Dickheads. Heck, they already performed (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River on traditional Greek instruments once before; that ought to win them some votes with the international crowd.
Go on. Sign it. You know you want to.
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