wed 04/12/2024

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

Brighton Rock

Read more...

Brucie and David Jason in TV Gong Fest

Read more...

Hereafter

Read more...

The Tudors, BBC Two

Read more...

Hawaii Five-O comes to Sky1

Read more...

Hattie, BBC Four

Read more...

Tom Waits's poem for the homeless

Read more...

Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait/ Dispatches: Fish Unwrapped, Channel 4

Read more...

Sky Atlantic seeks TV's higher ground

Read more...

Kidnap and Ransom, ITV1

Read more...

No Ordinary Family, UKTV Watch

Read more...

Conviction

Read more...

The Good Wife, More4

Read more...

Zen, BBC One

Read more...

Year Out/Year In: Television on Demand

Read more...

Upstairs Downstairs, BBC One

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Bach Mendelssohn Festival, Part I, Oxford Philharmonic Orche...

“I am not better than my fathers.” Cracked, pained, occasionally rasping, rising to a fearsome roar then subsiding to a throaty whisper, Sir Bryn...

Album: White Denim - 12

White Denim’s literally titled 12th album opens with the fidgety “Light on.” Drawing a line between electronica and Tropicália, it exudes...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 87: Roots Manuva, Bogdan Raczynski, Son...

VINYL OF THE MONTH

Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)

...

Currie, Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - s...

Kahchun Wong’s final concert of 2024 in the Hallé Manchester season was something of a surprise. At first sight, the sparkle in the programme...

Blu-ray: Juggernaut

That Juggernaut is as good as it is seems in hindsight to have been a happy accident. Inspired by a bomb hoax on the QE2 in 1972, the...

Rigoletto, Irish National Opera / Murrihy, Collins, NCH Dubl...

How many Rigolettos have regular operagoers among you sat through where there wasn’t some major defect, in either the production or the...

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, Ta...

Last month a portrait of Alan Turing by AI robot AI-Da sold at Sotheby’s for $1.08 million – proof that, in some people’s eyes, artificial...

Album: Panelia - Nothing and All At Once

Nothing and All at Once is the debut album from New Delhi...

Music Reissues Weekly: John Cale - The Academy in Peril, Par...

The return to shops of a consecutive sequence of five of John Cale's Seventies albums through different labels is undoubtedly coincidental. All...