Dirty Three – Enmore Theatre 20.6.24
As you know, I’m rarely at a loss for words – but last week I had an experience that is almost indescribable. I’ll try
The Dirty Three strolled onto the Enmore Theatre stage to the sound of Boz Scagg’s Lido. What followed was a tour de force by 3 musicians at the top of their game, supremely talented, wielding their instruments with a confidence born of experience and sheer talent.
The magnificent Jim White – technically brilliant but so creative behind the drum kit. The seemingly emotionless and incredibly skilful Mick Turner, letting rip on his guitar with an air of insouciance. Warren Ellis all hair and beard, his extraordinary mastery of the violin enhanced by his perpetual motion – leaping, running, climbing like a slightly demented gnome.
Instrumental music – sometimes strident and urgently loud, sometimes quiet and almost meditative. Music punctuated by the expletive laden ‘chats’ Ellis conducted with audience members, and his rambling funny stories.
They creating a whirlpool sucking me in to it’s centre, and spitting me out after over two blistering hours, I walked onto the footpath feeling elated, exhausted, inspired and discombobulated.
Please let’s not have to wait another 5 years for their return, they’re like a cocktail of drugs and I feel the need to see and hear them again as soon as I can