Ulterior Motives: Red and Green Double Vinyl LP

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Label: Bella Union
Release Date: 13th November

A collection of early Dirty Three recordings previously only available on CD at live shows in 2012. Too good not to get a proper release these pre-debut recordings are gnarly, raw, the violin shrieks and the band play with a wild chaotic dark abandon.

Dirty Three announce the release of Ulterior Motives, an album of demos and 
live radio recordings
Originally available in 2012 as a limited edition CD, sold exclusively at the band's live 
shows, Ulterior Motives is a rare and revealing glimpse into the early years of Dirty 
Three, now receiving a welcome new lease of life. Recorded in the band's formative 
period, these demos and radio performances capture Dirty Three at their most raw, 
ragged and gloriously unrestrained.
Four of the LP's recordings -- "Sue's Last Ride", "The Last Night", "Everything Is Fucked" 
and "Indian Love Song" -- were recorded live in the band's small rehearsal space 
before they made their self-titled debut, as the trio of Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and 
Jim White worked out the songs in real time. Highly improvised and instinctive, they 
offer a vivid snapshot of the band's earliest live performances.
The album's fnal track is "Deep Waters", recorded at Mick Turner's house after the 
band returned to Australia from their frst overseas tour. Here, the trio are once again 
feeling out a song that would ultimately become part of Ocean Songs, offering a 
fascinating glimpse of the music in the process of taking shape.
Dirty Three have long been regarded as one of the most electrifying live bands around. 
These recordings show exactly why.

A Better Go Home Now (Live Radio) / Indian Love 
Song (Demo) / Everything Is Fucked (Demo) / The Last Night (Demo) / Hope (Live 
Radio) / Sues Last Ride (Demo) / No Stranger Than That (Demo) / Deep Waters 
(Demo)