Dirty Three Ulterior Motives
Ulterior Motives — Dirty Three, First Time on Vinyl
- Format
- red and green vinyl
- Label
- Bella Union
- Release date
- 6 November 2026
- Status
- First time on vinyl
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Dirty Three's Ulterior Motives gets its first proper vinyl pressing on Bella Union. The 2012 tour CD only release is now available on red and green vinyl.
Ulterior Motives has existed as a CD only release sold at shows since 2012, which meant that unless you were in the room on the right night, owning it was basically impossible. Bella Union have now pressed it properly for the first time, on red and green vinyl, making it accessible to anyone who has wanted it without being lucky enough to catch the band on that original tour.
The material itself sits at the rawer end of the Dirty Three catalogue, demos and radio sessions from their formative period. These are not polished studio recordings, and that is precisely the point. There is something unguarded about early material like this that later records, however good, rarely capture in the same way.
For anyone who has followed Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White across the full run of records, having this available as a proper vinyl pressing rather than a hard to find tour CD is genuinely good news. The red and green vinyl is out now via Bella Union, and you can order direct from their store.
