“Defecate on My Face” was a face-tingling slap around the chops for the Australian record buying public. What I can honestly ascertain is that they formed at some point in 1982, releasing their first single “Defecate on my Face” not long after. Therefore, accurate details about their precise personnel, inter-band bust-ups and drug habits are going to be impossible to uncover. TISM have never revealed their identities in public, preferring to remain hidden beneath balaclavas and rubber masks. Unfortunately, giving the usual expected facts for TISM - the expected Who, What, When, Where, and Whys - is nigh on impossible due to their insistence that all band personnel should remain anonymous. Australia had the only audience who really embraced their slightly unusual ways. To be quite honest, though, the success of both acts seems somewhat unlikely in retrospect, was fleeting in both cases, and where TISM were concerned did not translate into any major overseas business. To say that TISM "fell by the wayside" in Australia would be rather like arguing that Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine never really did a decent trade in the UK. TISM were certainly big enough to sign to a label owned by Rupert Murdoch, play major venues in Melbourne and Sydney, and get regular night-time rotations on specialist music video shows down under too. Why, TISM were a huge band in Australia for a couple of years, weren't they?" "Now, hold steady there, Dave," I can hear certain people muttering to themselves, "you can't include TISM on a blog solely dedicated to obscure, forgotten artists.
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