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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).

Articles By Nick Hasted

The Last Black Man in San Francisco review - gentle gentrification blues

Sunday, 27 October 2019 Read more...

CD: Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Colorado

Monday, 21 October 2019 Read more...

LFF 2019: The Irishman review - masterful, unsentimental gangster epic

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 Read more...

Gemini Man review - high-concept, high-tech Zen weirdness

Friday, 11 October 2019 Read more...

CD: Elbow - Giants of All Sizes

Thursday, 10 October 2019 Read more...

Kano, Brighton Dome review - simply joyous

Monday, 07 October 2019 Read more...

Good Posture review - charming coming of age comedy

Saturday, 05 October 2019 Read more...

CD: Wilco - Ode to Joy

Thursday, 03 October 2019 Read more...

CD: The New Pornographers – In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

Monday, 23 September 2019 Read more...

Keane, De La Warr Pavilion review – hometown heartbreak

Saturday, 21 September 2019 Read more...

CD: Keane - Cause And Effect

Friday, 20 September 2019 Read more...

The Farewell review - warmly comic culture-clash

Friday, 20 September 2019 Read more...

Pere Ubu, Bush Hall review - terminal Americana

Monday, 16 September 2019 Read more...

Hustlers review - strip club crime pays

Friday, 13 September 2019 Read more...

The Flaming Lips, Brixton Academy review - an explosion of joy

Tuesday, 10 September 2019 Read more...

A Million Little Pieces review - addict's anaemic redemption

Sunday, 01 September 2019 Read more...

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Bookish, U&Alibi review - sleuthing and skulduggery in a...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories,...

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silence

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male companions join her in...

Youssou N'Dour and Super Étoile de Dakar, Roundhouse re...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices of Africa, a versatile...

BBC Proms: First Night, Batiashvili, BBCSO, Oramo review - g...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the perfect set-up for a First...

Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades and brings together a...

Harvest review - blood, barley and adaptation

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like...

Poor Clare, Orange Tree Theatre review - saints cajole us si...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des Garçons...

Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is ...

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...