TISM presents Wankers Of The World, Unite! An exclusive one-off performance this May at PICA in Melbourne.
Set to take the PICA stage on Sunday 2 May, following two sold out concerts this April at the Sydney Opera House, the band’s upcoming singular Melbourne show will deliver a one-off experience not to be performed anywhere else.
One of Australia’s most influential and enduring bands, TISM have spent decades forging a reputation for their genre-blurring, boundary-smashing, sarcasm-wielding (and entirely anonymous) antics. Emerging in the late 80s, the often balaclava-clad group have explored dance, pop, rock and caustic wit amongst other musical delights, spanning seven studio albums, countless award nominations and two ARIA Award wins, millions of streams, and a live performance reputation that truly has to be seen to be believed.
Reforming via some secret shows and an appearance at Good Things Festival in 2022, TISM ticked off a headline run in 2024, with their Death To Art Tour boasting supports from Machine Gun Fellatio, Eskimo Joe and The Mavis’s, and also in honour of their latest full-length Death to Art, which also became their highest charting album since the release of their seismic album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons.
Released in 1995, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons marked album #3 for TISM, along with a significant stylistic shift from their earlier works. Already in command of a cult-like following, brandishing anonymity and humour into razor-sharp musical moments that couldn’t help but slice into the zeitgeist, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons catapulted the group into mainstream infamy, with TISM proving that authenticity and an unwillingness to conform can, on rare occasions and in the right masked hands, lead to commercial airplay and chart domination, the ARIA Award for Best Independent Release, three songs in triple j’s Hottest 100 in 1995 and some of the group’s most enduring cuts, including (He’ll Never Be An) Ol’ Man River and Greg! The Stop Sign.
Melbourne fans, definitely do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime performance in 2026; you’ll never see TISM like this again elsewhere, ever.
TISM
PRESENTS
WANKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
LIVE AT MELBOURNE’S PICA
SATURDAY 2 MAY, 2026
Tickets on sale: Friday 13 March @ 11am AEDT time
Tickets from davidroywilliams.com
