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Australian mostly-instrumental rockers Dirty Three will curate the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in 2007, which will take place April 27-29 at Butlins in Minehead in Somerset, England. The lineup has yet to be announced, but tickets for the event are on sale now.

Before then, the trio will leave their home continent for somewhere a little closer but no less exotic: Asia. They will play five dates in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia beginning October 26 at Shanghai's Yun-Feng Theater. And on October 21, Dirty Three drummer Jim White will play with White Magic at the Palace Theater in Los Angeles as part of the Arthur Nights festival.

Finally, things get truly multimediary with the exhibition of Dirty Three guitarist Mick Turner's paintings at the blank space gallery in Sydney, Australia. Turner's paintings have served as the cover art for all seven Dirty Three albums, and this exhibition is part of a Sydney/Melbourne gallery swap with BRIGHTSPACE, where Turner's March show sold out. His blank_space show is called "New Works: Canvas, Print & Bronze". It opens October 19 and runs through October 23.

Dates:

10-26 Shanghai, China - Yun-Feng Theater *
10-27 Beijing, China - TQ Theater *
10-28 Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Caritas Community Hall
10-29 Taipei, Taiwan - Huashan Culture Park
10-31 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - TBA

* with Desert, Goodbye!Nao!