Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis (born 1965, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer; member of Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman.
In the early '80s Ellis moved to Melbourne and completed a Dip. Ed. in Music and English. He then spent a few years teaching in secondary schools before resigning; after this he wrote music for theatre groups in Melbourne.
In Melbourne, Ellis played with several groups and individuals- Charlie Marshall, The Blackeyed Susans, Kim Salmon , Tex Perkins and Dave McComb before he formed, in 1992, the Dirty Three with Jim White and Mick Turner. In 2002, Ellis released a solo E.P. on King Crab records called Three Pieces for Violin. In 2005 he collaborated with Nick Cave on the award-winning score of the film The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Plays on "Crazy Love", "There Is A Ghost" and "Desperanto" by Marianne Faithfull and "The Cruel Ship's Captain", Lowlands Low" and "Positively 4th Street" by Bryan Ferry. Also plays on the Hal Willner production Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys and Cat Power's "Good Woman" and Primal Scream's "Hell's Coming Down".
He plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin and can program electronic loops. Ellis is also known for his excessive and eccentric, though amusing banter between songs during Dirty Three live shows.
Ellis currently lives in Paris, with his wife and two children.

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There is also a Warren Girade Ellis, a British comic book author, who ended up as an artist on Last.fm after collecting independent music and releasing it in compilations (The Apparat Programme) on his blog.

The latter one even has a user account on Last.fm.