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Ellen Peirson-Hagger

“Smash the shit out of it”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to The Big Moon about their manic tour

Review: Common People Oxford

Oxford’s May Bank Holiday festival offering is sun-drenched and musically eclectic

Common People, an Uncommon Stage

Ellen Peirson-Hagger discusses the diversity of Oxford music at Common People Festival

“David Cameron, you wanker!”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger discusses fandom and arts funding with Wolf Alice’s Joff and Joel

“The music of our generation”

“I think the proudest moment of my music career was when my first royalties cheque came,” says Ozzy. “It was the same time that these bailiffs were knocking on my mum’s door..."

Common People festival playlist

Ellen Peirson-Hagger compiles the tunes she hopes to hear at Oxford's Common People Festival

Should we share our cultural pleasures?

Ellen Peirson-Hagger reflects on the perils of associating art with friends and significant others

Bestival 2016 set to be a winner

Huge names announced for September's festival of 'mind-expanding music'

Review: Maud

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by this one man performance

Review: C Duncan at the Old Fire Station

Ellen Peirson-Hagger experiences a taste of geeky indie rock

“It has to do with air molecules and shit”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks gig etiquette with Aidan Knight

Common People announces Big Top line-up

The Oxford-based May Bank Holiday weekend festival adds a whole host of acts to its bill

Misogyny at Burns Night must stop

Ellen Peirson-Hagger argues that we must not ignore the degrading chauvinism that saturates sexist Oxford traditions

Review: Yuck – Stranger Things

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is unimpressed by Yuck's latest album