thu 17/07/2025

Adam Sweeting

Adam Sweeting's picture
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)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

Hacks, Season 3, NOW review - acerbic showbiz comedy keeps up the good work

Read more...

Surviving Black Hawk Down, Netflix review - the real story behind Ridley Scott's Oscar-winner

Read more...

Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant stories from a terrible conflict

Read more...

Brian and Maggie, Channel 4 review - Thatcherism's date with TV destiny

Read more...

Flight Risk review - the sky's the limit for Michelle Dockery and Mark Wahlberg

Read more...

Prime Target, Apple TV+ review - the appliance of science

Read more...

Out There, ITV1 review - drugs and thugs disfigure the Welsh landscape

Read more...

A Complete Unknown review - how does it feel?

Read more...

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?, BBC Two review - absorbing but troubling search for answers

Read more...

American Primeval, Netflix review - nightmare on the Wild Frontier

Read more...

Maria review - Pablo Larraín's haunting portrait of an opera legend

Read more...

A Real Pain review - Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin take a Holocaust tour of Poland

Read more...

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Sky Atlantic review - Colin Firth stars in gruelling dramatisation of the 1988 terror attack

Read more...

SAS Rogue Heroes, Series 2, BBC One review - Paddy Mayne's renegade warriors invade Italy

Read more...

All Creatures Great and Small, Christmas Special, Channel 5 review - Mrs Hall steps into the spotlight

Read more...

Death in Paradise Christmas Special, BBC One review - who killed Santa Claus?

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
That Bastard, Puccini!, Park Theatre review - inventive comi...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the...

Hamlet, Buxton International Festival review - how to re-ima...

Ambroise Thomas’s version of Hamlet is the flagship production of this year’s Buxton International Festival and was always going to be a...

Friendship review - toxic buddy alert

The frenetic brand of humour that Tim Robinson brings to Friendship comes from a long lineage. There have...

Album: Slikback - Attrition

In the eternal now of the strobe-lit sweatbox, innovation functions in a different way to the rest of culture. Yes of course, the thrill of the...

Interview: Quinteto Astor Piazzolla on playing in London and...

“I still can’t believe that some pseudo-critics continue to accuse me of having murdered...

Sir Brian Clarke (1953-2025) - a personal tribute

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – wide-ranging, ground-...

S/HE IS STILL HER/E - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documen...

“I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people from half a mile...

Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means. For a start, the...

Billie Eilish, O2 review - power, authenticity and deep conn...

Billie Eilish may be one of the biggest names in new music, but here at the O2 Arena, she’s just Billie – the one who stares deep into your soul,...