Dirty Three

Dirty Three are an instrumental rock band, formed in 1993, in Melbourne, Australia. The three members are Warren Ellis (violin), Mick Turner (electric guitar), and Jim White (drums). Their music ha

Dirty Three are an instrumental rock band, formed in 1993, in Melbourne, Australia. The three members are Warren Ellis (violin), Mick Turner (electric guitar), and Jim White (drums). Their music has elements of folk melody, rock energy, and 20th century classical music. Their early albums offered many aggressive, ferociously emotional songs, but since their fourth album, Ocean Songs, Dirty Three have gradually shifted their focus towards melancholy moods, escaping the song structure of most of their earlier work; one song "experiments with overlapping violin tracks and ends up sounding more like a chamber work by Steve Reich than Dirty Three."

Dirty Three have released albums on Touch & Go Records and have toured with Sonic Youth, Pavement, Cat Power, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Shannon Wright.