Adam Sweeting
Bio
Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One). He is a regular obituarist for The Guardian.
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Published by Australian author Miles Franklin (full name Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin) in April 1901, My Brilliant Career was a hit in…
Barely contained in one of the bunkers tucked alongside the Pleasance’s main Courtyard, a first-time production from three young mates…
Here’s something you don’t see every day at the cinema: a filmmaker tells a boring story, then makes the whole point of the film about…
With its five-hour Angels in America, the International Festival has already hosted one production of epic proportions in Edinburgh this…
Geese may be the most buzz-worthy band in the world these days, but even they cannot get away with teasing a Glasgow crowd too much. After…
Ten Ways to Die Happy, Underbelly, Bristo Square ★★★★A live gameshow about life and death? Yes indeed, and host Perla Ambrosini proves the…
Pete Fij’s debut solo album, Up’s the New Down is a sharp set of songs that sees the former Adorable front man back in the ring for the…
Accolades first for the deep sound in Strauss of The Met Orchestra, newcomers to the Proms, under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin,…
Outside, this imagined world has collapsed, a few survivors of the flashes of two bombs scratching a living from a landscape that Mad Max…
A Masked Ball – note the English title given by the EIF, even though this is sung in Italian, an indication, I expect, of moves…