TSIM (Not TISM) Promise 'Two Very Different Shows' On 'No Mistakes' Tour, Add Extra Shows

Mary Varvaris

TSIM will dust off "a few real gems" on tour, some of which "many fans won't have heard live," and "some of the songs having not been performed for 40 years."

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Australian rock music troublemakers TSIM (not TISM) have confirmed that their upcoming No Mistakes tour will consist of “two very different shows.”

Previously, the band promised “radically different” setlists across the tour, after which they backtracked by saying that the font used on printed setlists would be the only thing that’s different.

Now, they’ve begrudgingly allowed their management to share “what will happen at the shows,” if not in any detail.

TSIM’s upcoming No Mistakes tour will feature two very different shows, which means different songs and different costumes, with “a few real gems” dusted off from their expansive catalogue, some of which “many fans won’t have heard live, with some of the songs having not been performed for 40 years.”

Additionally, the band have announced a third Melbourne show for the Forum on Saturday, 10 October, joining extra shows in Hobart, Adelaide, and Wollongong. Tickets to the tour are selling fast – head to the David Roy Williams website for more information.

A press release notes that the forthcoming tour dates “will not replicate the recent Adelaide and Darwin standalone festival shows,” which included “giant cardboard skulls” thrown into the audience. However, Les and Ron make no promises about no longer launching themselves into the moshpit.

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Speaking to The Music recently, vocalists Humphrey and Ron expounded on what a “radically different” setlist might look like for the band.

"I think the radical difference is in the levels of the white blood cells that signify prostate cancer," Humphrey explains. "Each night, our levels will be higher and higher, and that will cause a radically different sound to songs.

"I mean, we're planning to play the same song 20 times. But the audience being, of course, aficionados of TISM, the sort of people who know better than anyone else what TISM wants – and that's, you know, come along and boo us – those people will understand that it's not the same song 20 times.

"Rather, it's performed by a gentleman whose prostate cancer percentage has radically changed."