Nick Hasted
Bio
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 Financial Times, Uncut, Jazzwise and Sight & Sound. 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).
latest in today
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…
Take along your dancing shoes for this rousing, roof-raising collaboration between Glasgow’s Wonder Fools theatre company and South Korea’s…
So the tune we'll discuss today in the imaginary seminar that occupies a certain part of my brain is…."When Jah Come" by Devon Irons (…
As the title of her fourth album suggests, South Carolina blues-rocker Hannah Wicklund is not happy. There’s a tangled yarn behind these…
Interspersal programmes – or “mind melds”, as I like to call them – can sometimes open up new vistas of listening and sometimes be…
Dracula: Lucy's Dream, Pleasance at EICC ★★★★If something’s scary, it’s usually because you know it’s a threat, and that it might cause you…
God Bless The Band feels like an unexpected encounter with your younger self. Compiling tracks from across Courteeners’ career, the…
Where the US President chose to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of his country with a cage fight, the BBC stuck to music in this…
QFWFQ, Summerhall ★★★★At first glance, an iconic post-modern novel (or, perhaps more accurately, "novel") by Italo Calvino might not seem…