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Adam Sweeting

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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

Red Sparrow review - from Russia with lust

Friday, 02 March 2018 Read more...

Save Me, Sky Atlantic review - it's grim down south

Thursday, 01 March 2018 Read more...

The Light of the Moon, Amazon Prime review - coping with the unthinkable

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 Read more...

Marcella, Series 2, ITV review - more twisted tales of detection

Tuesday, 27 February 2018 Read more...

Tony Banks: ‘You either do it by diplomacy or you do it by violence’ - interview

Friday, 23 February 2018 Read more...

Troy: Fall of a City, BBC One review - soapification of the Trojan War

Sunday, 18 February 2018 Read more...

Collateral, BBC Two review - a lecture or a drama?

Thursday, 15 February 2018 Read more...

The Shape of Water review - love in a Cold War climate

Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Read more...

All or Nothing: The Mod Musical, Arts Theatre - plenty of room for ravers

Friday, 09 February 2018 Read more...

Spiral, Series 6 Finale, BBC Four review - hot fuzz hit new heights

Sunday, 04 February 2018 Read more...

Gomorrah, Series 3, Sky Atlantic review - there will be blood

Friday, 02 February 2018 Read more...

Strike Back, Series 6 part 2, Sky 1 review - shoot first, talk later

Thursday, 01 February 2018 Read more...

Journey's End review - requiem for the poor bloody infantry

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 Read more...

Hits, Hype and Hustle: An Insider's Guide to the Music Business, BBC Four review - how gigs got big

Saturday, 27 January 2018 Read more...

Britannia, Sky Atlantic review - Druids, sex and sorcery

Friday, 19 January 2018 Read more...

The Commuter review - trouble on the main line

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 Read more...

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

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...

Hamlet, Buxton International Festival review - how to re-ima...

Ambroise Thomas’s version of Hamlet is the flagship production of this year’s Buxton International Festival and was always going to be a...

Friendship review - toxic buddy alert

The frenetic brand of humour that Tim Robinson brings to Friendship comes from a long lineage. There have...

Album: Slikback - Attrition

In the eternal now of the strobe-lit sweatbox, innovation functions in a different way to the rest of culture. Yes of course, the thrill of the...

Interview: Quinteto Astor Piazzolla on playing in London and...

“I still can’t believe that some pseudo-critics continue to accuse me of having murdered...

Sir Brian Clarke (1953-2025) - a personal tribute

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – wide-ranging, ground-...

S/HE IS STILL HER/E - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documen...

“I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people from half a mile...

Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means. For a start, the...