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‘I Killed A Man’ , released today. Available on all streaming platforms … I imagined his voice , stripped of everything but a single question: ‘I killed a man… am I unworthy of love ?’

The song is inspired by the 1903 Darlington picnic tragedy. A group of French foreigners set out from Fremantle into the hills of Perth to have a picnic and refill their casks of wine. One of them , the man in the yellow suit, brought a gun. They drank too much, returned to the winery, there was an argument with the Swiss Winemaker, then a scuffle and a shot. The winemaker fell. All eight were charged but at the trial, the crime settled on one man alone, Frederic Maillot, the man in the yellow suit. He was sentenced to death.
I found myself drawn to the man at the centre of it all, waiting in a cell for the end.
He was buried in an unmarked grave at Fremantle Cemetery.

Artwork photography-Elliot Ramsay
‘Red Velvet covered gun’ 2025, original artwork by Olga Cironis
Design-Joe Kapiteyn
Music footage , shot in Darlington- Peta Walter
Produced, recorded and mixed- Elliot Smith

A big thank you to everyone who’s worked on this labour of love with us … and to my dearest who first shared this piece of history with me ❤️

A Big thank you to everyone who came last night ! We loved it ! And to our friends and for sharing stage with us 🙏❤️