The hotel opened in 1876, before that it was a bakery. Note: First concerts at the bar of the Bakers Arms Hotel 355 Victoria Street). Warren Ellis (violin)/ Mick Turner (guitar) and Jim White (drums)ĪU Melbourne-Abbotsford,Bakers Arms Hotel Their residency at the Bakers Arms bar allows them to experiment with their intrumental music. The next rehearsal they record and it was later (partially) released as the "Sad and Dangerous" album (Poon Village/Forced Exposure-USA). They rehearse/improvise some 5-6 tunes in Warren's kitchen and perform the same night in front of an audience of 3 friends or so. Warren asks Jim White and Jim asks Mick Turner. When Noel, a friend opens a bar at the Baker's Arms hotel on Victoria Street, he asks Warren for a band to play live background music. In April 1992 Warren joins Jim in Kim Salmon's Trouble Makers and in June 1992 David McComb's The Blackeyed Susans, again with Jim White. By January 1992 Warren joins Charlie Marshall's Body Electric with Jim White. In 1991 he returns to Melbourne joining Busload Of Faith. After returning to Melbourne he's working as a kitchenhand and cleaner, followed by a stay in Gippsland, in country Victoria, where he teaches at Bairnsdale High School for 18 months. It is during this period that he learned to play the violin properly and to appreciate the impact of folk songs on people. Together with other musicians he's busking in the streets and bars from town to town. By 1988 Warren leaves Australia for Europe to study fiddle playing for 9-10 months in Scotland, Ireland and Hungary. In 1986 he's also briefly in These Future Kings. Then he sang with a band in Melbourne called Well who played for six or nine month. They only rehearsed, did one live show (1985-1986), and never recorded. Warren Ellis (born in Ballarat on 14 February, 1965): starts his musical career in a school band called Paranoid.
Late 1992 Jim joins Charlie Marshall's Body Electric, again with Warren. In April 1992 Jim joins Kim Salmon's Trouble Makers, in June he and Warren both join David McComb's The Blackeyed Susans and Megan Bawden's short-lived Busload Of Faith, taking over drums from Tony Pola. In 1989 he's in the short-lived Hessian Sax, followed by King Idiot in 1990/91. Stinger (1986-1994), a band which also briefly tours the US in 1991. In 1984 he's briefly in Brainshack, a band with Fungus Brains members (excluding Mick). From 1982-1984 he's drumming for the Feral Dinosaurs, a band again with Conway Savage. The next band he joins are People With Chairs Up Their Noses (1981-1982). Jim White (born in Clifton Hill-Melbourne on 30 December, 1962): starts his musical career as member of the Happy Orphans in 1980, with Conway Savage (later of Bad Seeds fame). Stinger (1986-1994), a band with Dugald McKenzie, Alan Secher-Jensen and drummer Jim White.
When Fungus Brains are on hold Mick forms Venom P. During the same period he also joins Dave Graney's The Moodists, with whom he's touring overseas for the first time (UK, Europe and US in 1983-1984). Several members of the Sick Things, inluding Mick, formed the short-lived Spew Forth in 1982 before establishing Fungus Brains (1982-1989). The next band he joins were the Sick Things (1979-1982, with a slight return in 1988). Stinger.īrief early history Mick Turner (born in Black Rock-Melbourne on 12 January, 1960): starts his musical career as member of the Melbourne SS in 1979, with Dugald McKenzie. Warren and Jim are also member of 4 other bands:īusload Of Faith, Kim Salmon's Trouble Makers, David McComb's Blackeyed SusansĪnd Charlie Marshall's Body Electric. The year in which our 3 heroes form a band of their own, Dirty Three. Information in grey italics is uncertain- 1992 Related to the Australian band Dirty Three. Ĭhronology: a chronological overview of known concert dates (some with setlists and/or ads),ĭates of studio recordings, all line-ups, assorted trivia and other tall tales Warren Ellis (violin), Jim White (drums), Mick Turner (guitar) and Giorgos Xylouris (laouto, a large Cretan lute). (February 1992 - November 2012: Melbourne -Chicago -Paris -Brooklyn)ĭirty Three Recovery, Melbourne March 1, 1997: From The Archives -Dirty Three- Concert Chronology / Gigography