"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 6/15/26)
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Real Live Certified
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Critics Consensus
Based on 32 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Dirty Three is rated as an impressive live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Dirty Three concert reviews describe live shows and performances as euphoric, playful, astonishing, and amazing.
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On tour
Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy (October 27); Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway (October 30);Store Vega, København V, Denmark (November 2); Columbia Theater, Berlin, Germany (November 4); Various Venues, Utrecht, Netherlands (November 5); Depart, Kortrijk, Belgium (November 6); Gebäude 9, Köln, Germany (November 6); Electric Ballroom, London, United Kingdom (November 10)
Dirty Three is an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis (violin and bass guitar), Mick Turner (electric and bass guitars) and Jim White (drums). They formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1992.
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Spectrum Culture (USA)
March 22, 2026
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On a beautiful Friday evening, a sold-out crowd of Portlanders celebrated the spring equinox with a band capable of making you feel the planet turning around you. Hyperbole is easy when it comes to bands like the Australian instrumental act Dirty Three, but they exist in a rare zone that justifies superlatives.
"Nothing I tell you is untrue," frontman Warren Ellis tells us at one point during this epic three-and-a-half-hour performance (24 June), and this is basically as good an introduction as any to the world of Dirty Three.
