U:MACK Present DIRTY THREE + JOSH PEARSON (LIFT TO EXPERIENCE) SATURDAY NOV 12 (THIS SATURDAY!) THE VILLAGE. DOORS 7.30 TICKETS €21 FROM ROAD, SOUND CELLAR, CITY DISCS, WAV BOX OFFICE AND ON THE DOOR 1890 2000 78. ONLINE AT www.tickets.ie NO GUEST LIST www.umack.com Listen to dirty three here: http://www.tgrec.com/bands/album.php?id=365 DIRTY 3. THE VILLAGE. SAT NOV 12 KHANATE. WHELANS. MON NOV 21 COCOROSIE. WHELANS. SAT DEC 3 U:MACK XMAS PARTY FEATURING PELICAN, OAK & TEN PAST SEVEN. WHELANS. SAT DEC 17. Hi, please note that doors for this saturday's dirty 3 gig are at 7.30, not 8.30 as originally announced.. a limited amount of tickets will be available on the door. Also, the excellent Josh Pearson has been added as support. Don't miss this gig, the dirty 3 are incredible live. Josh Pearson returns to Dublin on fri nov 25 to play at the Ballroom of Romance in the lower deck. Written by Warren Ellis: Cinder marks the 7th studio album in 14 years from Instrumental band Dirty Three.was concieved on Phillip Island, in South Eastern Victoria,Australia in the summer of 2005. The Island is home to the very wonderful Mutton Bird and the Fairy Penguin Colony and site of one of the largest Great White Sharks fished from its waters in 1978.With each of us living on a different continent,impromptu practices are impossible,and getting together requires more than a phone call.A series of concerts were arranged in Australia,and we convened in the basement of a beach house.Each of our albums is concieved in a different way,and this was no exception.After two weeks of rehearsals,it was apparent we had alot of material.Somewhere in the vicinity of 40 songs,which were whittled down to 25.In January we booked 10 days in Sing Sing studios in Richmond,Melbourne.and with Casey Rice at the helm,recorded all the tracks.Our approach this time was to load the car up with as many instruments as possible,and then give each song what it needed.In the past we have tried to capture the bands live potential,and this time we figured to think about how me might perform the songs later.The songs are much shorter,trimmed down,classic in composition.The album boasts violin,drums,guitar,bass ,viola,mandolin,bouzouki,organ,piano,acoustic guitar,bagpipes and for the first time voice.Sally Timms was in town with the Mekons,and added some voice.A month or so later when Chan Marshal was in Melbourne playing some shows,she added some vocals.A first for a dirty three album,aside from a collaberation with Low for Dutch label Concurrent.I believe all three of us have played on her recordings at some point,and a collaberation felt right.Upon completion of the recording,we settled upon 19 tracks. Of the 19 songs,18 are original,one being a cowrite with Chan,and the other is an adaptation of a song by Felix Lajko.He is a fiddle player from Hungary and is one of my all time favourite players.His first album Lajko Felix Es Zeneraka was given to me years ago after a concert in Berlin,and is long unavailable.I listened to it non stop through the making of Ocean Songs and it is one those albums you just find yourself coming back to.The song Zither Player is infact part of the original song adapted for our own purposes.He is a reminder that the fire is still there. This album felt good to make,it sounds like a step somewhere to me in some direction,and that's what we have always been about.is dedicated to long time friend and advisor to the band,Mick Geyer,and is a celebration of all things inherent in the Dirty Three domain.And as he was oft to say,"It takes pressure to make diamonds".For me,our greatest success is that we continue to make recordings and concerts,14 years after our formation.Each album into it,feels like a page closed.The hunt is still on and the chase is still there. Ellis Sur Seine FRANCE Josh Pearson In 2001 a band emerged from Denton, Texas with one of the most awe-inspiring debuts in recent memory. The band was LIFT TO EXPERIENCE and their record was entitled THE TEXAS-JERUSALEM CROSSROADS… a concept album about the end of the world where Texas is the Promised Land… and a record so epic and evangelical it almost made even the staunchest non-believers think there might really be a higher power. The band’s leader was the charismatic and enigmatic JOSH T PEARSON, son of a southern Preacher man who grew up listening to endless sermons of fire and brimstone. Listening to his music was akin to hearing Jeff Buckley fronting My Bloody Valentine, Godspeed! or Slint… a beautiful, intoxicating experience for sure. Lift To Experience spent the following year on tour, stunning audiences with their incendiary live shows, looking set to cross over to a huge audience… and then… nothing. The promised second album never arrived and Josh appeared at times to be retreating from the world, a soul in crisis, moving to a hut in a remote part of Texas to wrestle with his demons. When he was occasionally sighted in Denton or Austin he seemed to many to be an outlaw, belonging to an earlier time… Over the years, the Lift To Experience legend has continued to grow, fuelled by the absence of a follow-up, the elusive behaviour of their leader, and the fact that bands such as HOPE OF THE STATES, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY and THE DUKE SPIRIT have cited them as such a massive, essential influence on their music. Now Josh is finally emerging from the wilderness… shaking off his demons… and returning to the UK armed with a collection of astonishing new acoustic material to play to his fans, which should hopefully (all being well!) become his debut solo album next year. The shows on the tour are co-headliners, Josh being joined by either BIKINI ATOLL or the ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT (or both). Dates below… “Vast and majestic… the most spectacularly handsome guitar-led rock music since the invention of the plectrum”. Uncut – Album of The Month (5 Stars *****)