Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are (a) back, (b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater, and (c) not wasting another minute – as nothing is guaranteed. For their first album in over a decade – yep, it’s been ten years since 2012’s Toward the Low Sun – they flew in, got together and started playing. End of story. What else is there to say or do but that? Music’s their language, their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the title says, Love Changes Everything. Arriving physically on Friday, 14th June and digitally on Friday, 28th June, Love Changes Everything expands on their rumbling, wide-open instrumentals that pull you in like oil-painted landscapes.
There’s no music without a fresh tour book so in true style the ARIA award winning trio also announce a ten date national tour to spread the cacophony of noise across the mountains and to the coast. Five years since their last visit, and 12 long years since their last national tour, the trio were already announced on Melbourne’s RISING festival but today add dates in Sydney, Canberra, Thirroul, Fremantle, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane and Byron Bay to their manifest, bringing the same cathartic, sometimes violent and always spellbinding brand of music that they’ve brought to stages with Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Pavement, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, John Cale, PJ Harvey, The Pogues, and Cat Power.
Friday, 14th June | RISING @ Hamer Hall, Melbourne
Saturday, 15th June | RISING @ Hamer Hall, Melbourne
Tuesday, 18th June | Canberra Theatre, Canberra
Wednesday, 19th June | Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul*
Thursday, 20th June | Enmore Theatre, Sydney*
Saturday, 22nd June | Fremantle Passenger Terminal, Fremantle^
Monday, 24th June | Hindley St, Adelaide^
Wednesday, 26th June | Odeon Theatre, Hobart^
Friday, 28th June | Tivoli, Brisbane^
Saturday, 29th June | The Green Room, Byron Bay^
*Support by Laura Jean
^ Support by Eleanor Jawurlngali
Of the announcement Warren Ellis shares “What joy to kick off the tour for our new album Love Changes Everything in Melbourne Australia for the RISING Festival. Recorded in 5 days. Mixed in a year. Nothing has changed. Older and meaner, sadder and totally dangerous. Dirty Three are Thirty Two years old. Come blow out the candles and help us stick a knife in the cake.”
The Dirty Three – Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White – formed in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar drums and violin or viola, and within a couple years, they’d broken out – out of Australia, out of anything else they might have been inside of, and got worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet, ceaseless like, and cut seven albums out along the way. After this, their unique style of play, fitted together like puzzle pieces, was decoupled, more often than not, and pieced together in many other, fruitful collaborations with many other esteemed talents. Over the past 20 years, they’ve gotten together a few times, renewed the vow, revved the engines and played some shows, or made an album. Like now –
And when received, and committed to “tape”, or whatever they used, this music has been untethered from its streams of consciousness and reconsidered as a recording; brought to bear through edits, overdubs and mixes, resequenced and made suite-like. Made into this album.
These lot were born to be as weathered as they are today. Time doesn’t matter. They make their gathered wisdom of the ages sing like something new every time. It renews. And Love Changes Everything.
Dirty Three, ahoy!