Mar 29 2024 80 mins
In Episode Six, I chat to singer-songwriter Ellie Dixon about what she has learnt in the last few years since her career has skyrocketed, and the challenges of having your actual name as the face of your brand. Ellie also opens up about mental health struggles and provides some self-help strategies she has found useful.
We also delve into Ellie's experiences of playing with a live band for the first time at uni, losing her in-ears at the Celtics v Rangers game and wearing Airpods whilst performing to 60,000 people, and the impact of hate comments.
Ellie Dixon is an alt-pop singer-songwriter from Cambridgeshire, known for her unconventional DIY production and use of household items in her instrumentation. She’s been writing and producing music since she was 13, and after leaving school, continued to play gigs while studying Maths at the University of Warwick, where we met!
Throughout the pandemic, as live music ground to a halt, Ellie took to social media to nurture an already fast-growing fanbase. She rapidly garnered a huge following on TikTok, and to date she has amassed 1.2 million followers and 14 million likes on the platform. Ellie has put out a couple of EPs during her career so far, but it was Crikey It’s My Psyche, released in May 2021, that catapulted her into stardom, with hit single Green Grass now standing at six million streams on Spotify. In mid 2022, Ellie signed to major label Decca Records, announcing the achievement with a video of her running through King's Cross in a giant space suit to celebrate. Her latest EP, In Case of Emergency, was released last year, with the hit single Swing a witty analogy for batting away negativity on the internet and learning how to deal with toxic situations.
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