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)
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
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Black Bag review - lies, spies and unpleasant surprises
Michael Fassbender recently starred in Paramount+’s rather laborious spy drama The Agency, but here he finds himself at the centre of a...
Henry Gee: The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire - Why Ou...
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Weather Girl, Soho Theatre review - the apocalypse as surrea...
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Clueless: The Musical, Trafalgar Studios review - a perfectl...
Before there was Barbie: The Movie, before there was Legally Blonde, there was Clueless, the Valley Girl movie that...
Album: Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow
America – the pro-wrestling-ass nation, the ultimate society of the spectacle – famously likes things big, and modern country and western music...
Bavouzet, BBCSO, Stasevska, Barbican review - ardent souls i...
Not to be overshadowed by the adrenalin charges of the Budapest Festival Orchestra the previous evening, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its...
First Person: singer-songwriter David Gray on how the songs...
Occasionally, when I pass my own reflection, out of the corner of my eye I catch a glimpse of the likeness of my father, shining out through the...
Sister Midnight review - the runaway bridegroom
Marriage is not often presented in cinema as a bowl of mangoes, but it’s rarely shown as so morbidly strange as in this reckless corker...
The Habits, Hampstead Theatre review - who knows what advent...
“The exercise of fantasy is to imagine other ways of life,” says one of the role-players during a Dungeons & Dragons marathon, because “...