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).
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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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Hard Truths review - a bravura, hyperreal performance from M...
A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re...
Saturday Night review - a dizzying 90-minute trip to a landm...
“A countercultural sketch show full of unknowns, with no script, no structure.” The verdict of NBC’s head of talent about the embryonic...
Inside No 9: Stage Fright, Wyndham’s review - uneven fright-...
How excited Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton must have been to learn that the venue for their Inside No 9 stage show was...
Album: The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
The Weeknd is a global megastar, one of the biggest music sensations of the age. Last year, his compilation, The Highlights, was the...