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Elliott Smith

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...

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Smith, Elliott : From A Basement On The Hill

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...

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Elliott Smith: Osaka Club Quattro

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...

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New York Beacon Theater

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...

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Atlanta Tabernacle

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...

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Dublin Red Box

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...

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Son Of Sam

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...

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San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium

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...

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Figure 8

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...

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London WC1 ULU

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...

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