Gigs You Missed

29 December 1995
Summersault Festival
@ Melbourne Showgrounds
Review by L.B. Bermingham

January 1996 @ Richmond Tavern:
Shah /w Lanthanide + The Garonias, The Shine /w Care Factor + Thimbleye, Medicine Ball /w Black Orange + Stoney Creek Backwash, Undreaded /w Happiness Band + DJ Peter Dread

January 1996 @ Prince Patrick Hotel:
Chris Wilson & Shane O'Mara /w Sally Dastey from Tiddas, World Championship Morgan, Jeff Achison Band /w Dutch Tilders

January 1996 @ Espy:
Nathan Cavaleri /w Ranger Stacey, The Shock Poet /w Box, Bad Boys Batucada /w Ice Cream Hands, Stone Cold Boners, Black Eyed Susans /w Calpurnia, Working Class Ringos /w Sean Kelly, Barb Waters and the Rough Diamonds /w Luxum, Oversize /w Testeagles, Renee Geyer, Womnal

January 1996
The Dreampoppies
11th @ Cherry Tree /w The Plastered Bastard Sisters
12th @ Public Bar

January 1996
Testeagles, Chum CD Launch tour
11th @ Barwon Club
12th @ Tote
13th @ Nicholson's
14th @ Tudor Inn

Jan 1996 @ Corner Hotel:
Bikini Kill /w Hecate + Cherry Bomb, Philosopher's Stone /w Holocoustic, Brutal Truth /w Blood Duster + Magnacite + Rupture, Paradise Motel /w Sunglass, The Buzzards /w Trigger, Liquid /w Calpurnia, Hecate /w Gritty Kitty

31 January 1996
Porno For Pyros /w The Fireballs
@ The Palace, St Kilda

January 1996
Pandora's Child
13th @ Evelyn Hotel /w Box + The Living End
18th @ The Club /w Plasticine
19th @ Criterion Hotel Warrnambool /w LICK

January 1996
The Amazing Rhythm Aces
29th + 30th @ The Basement /w The Wheel
31st @ Corner Hotel

January 1996 @ Armadale Hotel:
Incenc'd, G.A.K, The Unbelievables, Supreme Masters, Nev's Vindaloo, Pandora's Child /w Lick + Pulling Face,

11 February 1996
Primus /w Spiderbait
@ Metro, Melbourne

TISM To Play Their Breakthrough Album In Full At Sydney Opera House One of Australia’s most iconic venues is about to meet one of the country’s most irreverent bands, with Melbourne’s masked mirthmakers TISM plotting their Sydney Opera House debut. The group – who mark their 43rd anniversary next month – will be hitting up the famed locale on Friday, April 10th. It will mark their the band’s first live appearance since November 2024, when they wrapped up their Death To Art Tour with a massive performance at the Hordern Pavilion, just a few kilometres away. With close to 400 live appearances having taken place across their storied career, this show will mark TISM’s debut show at the Sydney Opera House therefore, they’re ensuring it’s one to remember. The gig itself will be a celebratory one for the band, and will feature a full playthrough of their 1995 album, Machiavelli And The Four Seasons. Embedded Content Released on May 1st, 1995, Machiavelli And The Four Seasons was TISM’s third full-length record, and served as their commercial breakthrough. Harnessing a unique blend of electronic music and pub rock, the group’s subversive nature and satirical lyrics caught the attention of the Australian music public. Peaking at No. 8 on the ARIA Charts, the record went Gold, and even saw TISM take out Best Independent Release at the ARIA Awards that same year. Thanks largely to the success of singles such as (He’ll Never Be An) Ol’ Man River, Greg! The Stop Sign!!, and All Homeboys Are Dickheads, the album was an underground sensation that spilled out into the mainstream, and briefly put TISM on the radar of music lovers across the country. Earlier this year, the album was also the focus of full-length book as part of the Oceania edition of the long-running 33⅓ series of musical essays, and also received an expanded reissue on vinyl and CD, collecting B-sides and demos from the recording process. The forthcoming show will serve as a rare opportunity for the band’s devoted fanbase to hear many of the songs on the record for the first time since its release. It’s also the first time the band have taken a retrospective look at their discography and offered up a full run-through of an album, with such a concept almost seeming at odds with TISM’s own approach to cultural veneration. While follow-up albums such as 1998’s www.tism.wanker.com and 2001’s De RigeurMortis wouldn’t have the same impact as Machiavelli, TISM’s legacy has undeniably continued. Having split in 2004, the group would reform in 2022 for the Good Things festival, and released their first album in 20 years – Death To Art – in 2024, with a national tour taking place in support. Tickets to TISM’s upcoming Sydney Opera House show are on presale from Wednesday, November 12th, with a general sale taking place from 10am on Thursday, November 13th. Embedded Content TISM – Present Machiavelli And The Four Seasons Friday, April 10th – Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW

TISM To Play Their Breakthrough Album In Full At Sydney Opera House

13 January 1996
Truck
@ Central Club

January 1996
Bittersweet
12th @ Empress /w Dead Salesmen + Dead Catt by Max & Salmonella
19th @ Public Bar /w Spudgun + The Externals

January 1996 @ Prince of Wales:
The Same /w Motherease + Floor 13, Fresh 'n' Easy, Gregg's Party, Violetine /w Pleasurehead, Fuck Fucks /w Come The Rubber Pig, Powdermonkeys

26 January 1996
Tricky
/w Macronauts + DJ Ransom
@ Prince of Wales

January 1996
Numbd
13th @ Prince of Wales
17th @ The Tote

1 February 1996
Prodigy
/w Foil + Voiteck
@ The Palace, St Kilda

January 1996
Plasticine
11th+18th @ The Club, Collingwood
13th @ Lorne Hotel
19th @ Austral Adelaide
20th @ Victoria Hotel Warnambool
25th @ Star Bar South Melbourne
27th @ Bairs Hotel Leongatha

January 1996 @ Nicholson's:
Intrusion /w Sinker + Kill Crash Destroy, Colour Blind /w Headcase + King Test + Mad Cardigan, Quadbox /w Testeagles + Delirium + Amoeba Amoeba

1 March 1996
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
@ Flinders Park, Melbourne

January 1996 @ The Tote:
Rex /w Bambi Kino + Jericho, Mississippi Barry's Big Fluffy Combo /w Chapter 14 + High Pass Filter, Sunset Strip /w Testeagles + The Midget Stooges, Musket /w Chiairoscuro + Late Mail, Asteroid B-612 /w The Saucermen + The Sub Zeroes

January 1996 @ Arthouse:
Cinnabar /w Spewburp + Altered Ego + Undertoe, Brian /w Cheezlekane + McGarrett, Mindsnare /w Crank + Caustic Soda + Self Reliance, One Inch Punch /w Crank + Silpheed + Fahrenheit 451, Bodyjar /w Crank + Trevor + Myside, Tinker's Will

Buy Spdfgh's Give Me Time from the LP Leave Me Like This

January 1996 @ Continental:
Renee Geyer, Louis Tillett & Charlie Owen /w The Paradise Motel Motel, Ray Pereira's Bongo Fury, Dan & Al

18 January 1996
Joe Satriani
@ The Palace, St Kilda

January 1996 @ Public Bar:
Hugo Race & Friends, Kerry Simpson Veve /w Malcolm Hill, Fizzleheads /w Quadbox + F Mongrels, Dreampoppies, Headbelly Buzzard, Swank /w Ergot Derivative + Cinema Prague + John Browns Body, Rowland S Howard, Hub /w Holocoustic (Jo & Jerry of Holocene)

Jan 1996 @ Punters Club:
Acuff's Rose /w Lisa Miller Trio + Stug, Working Class Ringos /w Blue Devil + Dust, Hoss /w Seminal Rats + Mace, Rupture, Beanflipper /w Magnacite + Undinism, Chris and Tim (Autohaze), Life Drill /w Volvox, Kizmet /w Wendy's Rule + MPI, Coal House Walkers, Creme of Tartar

Cold chisel at Kingston Rock

Wow @jane13barnes.bsky.social @jimmybarnes.com a blast from the past, February 2, 1980!