"But rock fans have known of his work since the early 1990s, when he founded Dirty Three, an intense instrumental Melbourne rock trio of intermittent periods of activity. In 2024, they released Love Changes Everything, their first studio album in 12 years. It should be noted that in Australia's second most-populous city, a unique sound has been created that has its roots in punk."
"Now, everybody knows how charismatic he is. But in a certain circle in Australia, Nick was this big shadow that just kind of hovered over everything, hovered over the music thing, hovered over the creative. And in 1980, when his group at the time, The Birthday Party, went to London, they just grew in stature. Jim White from Dirty Three swears they came back and they were all 30 centimeters taller."
Warren Ellis is an Australian musician who began on violin in Ballarat and has avoided mainstream stardom. He founded Dirty Three in the early 1990s, an intense instrumental Melbourne trio active intermittently, releasing Love Changes Everything in 2024 after a 12-year studio gap. Melbourne's music scene has produced a loud, punk-rooted, ramshackle sound that rejects conventional choruses and embraces dark, cacophonous intensity. The local scene grew under influential figures such as Nick Cave, whose charismatic aura and international growth with The Birthday Party left a lasting imprint. Anecdotes describe Cave's mystique and the reverence he inspired among peers.
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