David Limbrick MP calls for Mordialloc Freeway to be named after 90s cult band TISM
A Victorian state MP is pushing to have the Mordialloc Freeway named after a Melbourne 90s alternative rock band, while also addressing rumours he is the group’s “mysterious seventh member”.
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A Cheltenham MP has called for the Mordialloc Freeway to be named after an Australian 90s cult alternative rock band.
Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick yesterday told parliament the freeway should be renamed to TISM Mordialloc Freeway.
Mr Limbrick, who read the lyrics of the band’s Mordialloc Rd Duplicator to parliament, said TISM were a “visionary band who understood the importance of infrastructure”.
“My request for (Roads Minister Jaala Pulford) is to right this historical injustice, and change the name of Mordialloc Freeway to the TISM Mordialloc Freeway,” Mr Limbrick told parliament.
Speaking to Leader, Mr Limbrick said it would be “so fitting” to have the freeway named after the band who were so influential of their time.
“In other parts of Melbourne, artists with little or no connection to the city such as Michael Hutchence and ACDC have been honoured with statues and street names,” he said.
“I want something in southeast metro and Mordialloc Freeway is such a boring name – so this would be a great idea.
“The southeast deserves more recognition and so do our musicians such as TISM – they wrote heaps of songs about Frankston and Dandenong.”
“TISM was a seven-piece cult alternative rock band who had hits such as (He’ll Never Be An) Ol’ Man River and Greg! The Stop Sign!!
The members of TISM always covered their faces and it was rumoured they were teachers, journalists and even a high-profile lawyer.
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Several members have since outed themselves, including Damian Cowell as the band’s lead singer, Humphrey B. Flaubert.
Mr Limbrick said people had been speculating he was the “mysterious seventh member of the band”.
“I can categorically confirm I’m not.”
MORDIALLOC RD DUPLICATOR — TISM
From Lower Springvale to the Frankston Freeway
Until you get to that bitumen stain
That runs between two road highways
Happy people trapped in its invidious single lane
If you’re behind a truck or freighter
Say “Thank god for the Mordialloc Road duplicator”
So I work for the RCA
I got big bulldozers and earth shifters
I dig all those cut-away slopes
With 700 tonne capacity lifters
If you’re interested in roadworks see me later
I’m the Mordialloc road duplicator
All you people on Christmas vacation
Here is a reason for jubilation:
They’re ain’t no better roadworks in the nation, yeah
Than the Mordialloc Road duplication
One day all the way to Portsea
It’ll all be big divided freeways
They’re’ll be turnoffs to Tootgarook
Cranbourne, Frankston, Five Ways
The whole peninsula will be my crater
I’m the Mordialloc Road duplicator
All you people on Christmas vacation
Here is a reason for jubilation:
They’re ain’t no better roadworks in the nation, yeah
Than the Mordialloc Road duplication
“The drug, the drug of music.
The drug, the drug, drug, drug, drug, drug drug”
“Aaah. listeners … perhaps we should explain um. Thankyou Joe!”
“The ghost who talks is speechless, ladies and gentleman”