Thursday, January 23, 2025

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

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

The Coral: always getting proggier

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks psychedelia, books and hunger with keys-player Nick Power

No matter the venue,“I just like to play”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to folk singer Ryley Walker

Review: Public Memory — Wuthering Drum

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is seduced by Public Memory's gritty electronica album

Review: Choir of Young Believers – Grasque

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by the sensitivity in Choir of Young Believers' new album

Daughter rocks to fuzzy guitar serenity

Ellen Peirson-Hagger watches the London indie trio descend into a hazy stage mist

Huey Morgan: it’s all for the fans

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to the Fun Lovin' Criminal

Street Style: HT16 1st week

Our photographers, freezing behind their lenses, hit the wintry streets of Oxford once again

Review: Hinds – Leave Me Alone

Ellen Peirson-Hagger finds Hinds' debut album full of energy

Eliza and the Bear prep themselves for 2016

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks Bieber and Nashville with Eliza and Bear guitarist Martin Dukelow

Street Style: HT16 0th week

Our street style photographers try not to seem stalkerish as they photograph well-dressed strangers in London and Oxford

Top 10 albums of 2015

An (un)official guide to the albums that should have been gracing your turntable this year

Out of the Blue Christmas cover: a playful wonder

Oxford's all-male a cappella group go all-out in their video for 'Santa Baby'

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