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 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).
Articles By Nick Hasted
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Emilia, Vaudeville Theatre review - shouting for change
Emilia Bassano Lanier is not a household name. But maybe she should be. Born in 1569, she was one of the first women in England to publish a book...
Pose, BBC Two review - transgender goes mainstream
NYC, 1987. AIDS is ravaging the city, Reagan’s in power, Trump is in his tower. The American dream is available - to some. And for some of those...
Downstate, National Theatre review - controversial but also...
"Some monsters are real," notes a retribution-minded wife (Matilda Ziegler) early in Downstate, Bruce Norris's beautiful and wounding...
The White Crow review - gripping depiction of the brilliance...
Genius is as genius does, and Rudolf Nureyev made sure...
Mike Nelson, The Asset Strippers, Tate Britain review – exhi...
Mike Nelson has turned the Duveen Galleries into a museum commemorating Britain’s industrial past (pictured below right). Scruffy...
The Bay, ITV, review - Broadchurch goes north
In the 1970s, the Mancunian stand-up Colin Crompton had a famous routine about Morecambe. He characterised Morecambe as “a sort of cemetery with...
CD: Sleeper - The Modern Age
While Oasis have so far resisted the temptation of the big pay-off that a Gallagher family reunion would ensure, plenty of other...
The Bay at Nice, Menier Chocolate Factory review - David Har...
David Hare knows a thing or two about sustaining an...
Bach St John Passion, Les Arts Florissants, Christie, Barbic...
William Christie kicked off Passion season in London this year with a particularly sombre reading of the...