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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Britannia, Sky Atlantic review - Druids, sex and sorcery

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The Commuter review - trouble on the main line

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Hard Sun, BBC One review - cops versus the end of the world

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Hostiles review – powerful but preachy Frontier fable

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Albums of the Year 2017: Robert Plant - Carry Fire

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Spiral, Series 6, BBC Four review - grime pays in the City of Light

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Molly's Game review - Jessica Chastain gets her poker face on

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Album: Baxter Dury - Allbarone

Quite why Baxter Dury isn't already a national treasure is a mystery to me. Not for his nepo connections but...

Lammermuir Festival 2025 review - music with soul from the h...

One piece that you’re unlikely to hear at the Lammermuir Festival is Lucia di Lammermoor. As co-director James Waters explained during a...

Album: Yasmine Hamdan - I Remember I Forget بنسى وبتذكر

A lot is going on during Yasmine Hamdan’s third solo album. Despite all ten songs of I Remember I Forget بنسى وبتذكر drawing from the...

BBC Proms: Steinbacher, RPO, Petrenko / Sternath, BBCSO, Ora...

My final visit to the Proms for this year was a Sunday double-...

Honey Don’t! review - film noir in the bright sun

The Coen brothers’ output has been so broad-ranging, and the duo so self-deprecating, that critics have long had difficulty getting their arms...

Blu-ray: The Sweeney - Series One

You’ll have absorbed key strands of The Sweeney‘s DNA even if you’ve never watched an episode, ITV’s groundbreaking police drama having...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 92: Marianne Faithful, Crayola Lectern,...

VINYL OF THE MONTH

Black Lips Season of the Peach (Fire)

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Blondshell, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow review - woozy roc...

There is such nonchalance with Sabrina Teitelbaum that even her appeals to the crowd appeared laid-back. At points during her set the Los Angeles...

Ganavya, Barbican review - low-key spirituality

At the start or her show, the white-robed singer Ganavya does something unusual: while other performers usually warm their audience up before...