Elliott Smith
When he was found with a self-driven steak knife through his heart in 2003, Elliott Smith’s death was as shocking to many as that of Kurt Cobain almost a decade before. What this collection of songs from his mid-’90s creative purple patch...
Smith, Elliott : From A Basement On The Hill
In March 2003, Elliott Smith gave what would turn out to be his last interview, to a small American magazine called Under The Radar. He hadn’t released a record for three years (since 2000’s ‘Figure 8’) and, in that time, dark tales about...
Elliott Smith: Osaka Club Quattro
Tattooed, shaggy-haired, wool-capped buskers are apt to strum and wail in public thoroughfares world-wide this time of year. Like them, the uncommon talent that is Elliott Smith appears before us with little more than an acoustic guitar and a head...
New York Beacon Theater
Reports of Elliott Smith 's moroseness have been greatly exaggerated, if we're using tonight's show as a yardstick.. How else to explain the fact that, halfway through his set, he grins and announces: "Now we're going to bring out some...
Atlanta Tabernacle
As 'Chartsengrafs' winds down with its Cars -style guitar-outro, Jason Lytle introduces Grandaddy as a band that's "been together for a long time now". To prove it they play 'Taster' from 1995's 'Pretty Mess by This One Band' EP...
Dublin Red Box
Back in his 'best kept secret' days, Portland , Oregon 's Elliott Smith played to 200 willingly sweaty indie-kids in a discreet Dublin cubby-hole. Three years on, and Elliott 's exclusive Dublin fan club now counts well over one and...
Son Of Sam
Elliott Smith Son Of Sam (DreamWorks) A song named after a multiple murderer: that should disperse any remaining stereotypes about Elliott Smith being the essence of sadness in a woollen hat. OK, so it goes without saying...
San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium
He looks like a '70s Soviet footballer and is celebrated by the sort of hipster doofuses who wear Lokomotiv Leipzig shirts. Or the American equivalent, which tonight appear to be Gap t-shirts with iron-on numbers. Elliott Smith is a...
Figure 8
If the tale of Elliott Smith's remarkable transformation from shambling slo-fi folkster to slightly less shambling toast of Hollywood's nouveau-cool should ever be adapted for the silver screen, it would, undoubtedly, be heralded the feel-good...
London WC1 ULU
You can almost smell the devotion in the air. Expectant, fiercely uncompromising and vaguely hysterical from the heat of a packed ULU, the obsessives are unwelcoming for those who beg to differ. The church of _s is an unforgiving place for those...
