Nick Hasted | The Arts Desk

sat 25/10/2025

Nick Hasted

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Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Uncut, Jazzwise and Classic Rock. He has published three books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), and Jack White: How He Built An Empire From The Blues (2016).

Articles By Nick Hasted

Frankenstein review - the Prometheus of the charnel house Monday, 20 October 2025 Read more...	theartsdesk Q&A: musician Warren Ellis recalls how jungle horror and healing broke him open Tuesday, 07 October 2025 Read more...
A House of Dynamite review - the final countdown Tuesday, 07 October 2025 Read more...	Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex review - sexual identity slips, hurts and heals Sunday, 24 August 2025 Read more...
Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review - freed love Sunday, 17 August 2025 Read more...	Weapons review - suffer the children Saturday, 09 August 2025 Read more...
Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessons Wednesday, 06 August 2025 Read more...	The Fantastic Four: First Steps review - innocence regained Sunday, 27 July 2025 Read more...
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silence Saturday, 19 July 2025 Read more...	Superman review - America's ultimate immigrant Monday, 14 July 2025 Read more...
28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education Saturday, 21 June 2025 Read more...	Pulp, O2 Arena review - common people like us Monday, 16 June 2025 Read more...
Ballerina review - hollow point Friday, 06 June 2025 Read more...	When the Light Breaks review - only lovers left alive Tuesday, 27 May 2025 Read more...
DVD/Blu-ray: In a Year of 13 Moons Tuesday, 15 April 2025 Read more...	Blu-ray: Lifeforce Tuesday, 25 March 2025 Read more...

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Janine Harouni, Soho Theatre review - families and surviving...

Write about what you know, they say. And just as her previous show was about imminent motherhood (she performed the show while heavily...

'Fevereaten' sees gothic punk-metallers Witch Feve...

Witch Fever are a rising three-piece, originally formed in ...

The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of...

The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day...

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ibragimova, Queen’s Hall, Edinbu...

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra punches well above its weight when it comes to guest artists, and it was a big thing for them to have someone of...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review - the story of t...

There’s something about hauntingly performed songs written in the first person that can draw us in like nothing else. As songs from...

theartsdesk Q&A: Soft Cell

Seven years ago, Soft Cell were about to perform at a sold-out O2, a one-off event they entitled, after 16 years apart, One Night, One Final Time...

Little Brother, Soho Theatre review - light, bright but emot...

Niall is unwell. Very unwell. Very, very. There’s a lot going on in his head. He can’t really hold things together. Evidence? Well, he’s lost his...

Demi Lovato's ninth album, 'It's Not That Dee...

Demi Lovato is impressive on many fronts. She’s a Noughties Disney...

The Unbelievers, Royal Court Theatre - grimly compelling, po...

Change, we're often told, is the engine of drama: people end up somewhere markedly different from where they began. So the first thing to be said...