16/04/2026
TISM have some sombre and very sad news to impart.
At 9:30 last night the TISM family, and that includes all of you, lost roadie extraordinaire, Andy Sutherland.
Andy died after a brief but devastating battle with cancer.
Many of you will know and remember Andy fondly. He has been a staunch warrior for TISM since the early 1990s. Armed only with a fistful of balaclavas, Andy would launch himself fearlessly deep into the mosh intent on not only retrieving Ron, Les, or occasionally, Humphrey, but doing so as gently as possible so as not to harm fans who were frantically intent on ripping a balaclava off a band member’s head.
Tonight, when TISM get to the chorus of “Greg! The Stop Sign!!”, we ask that you bellow it out so loudly that if there is an afterlife, and Andy is standing at the Golden Gates, St. Peter will take look aghast at Andy and ask “What the fv