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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

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...

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

Sunday, 07 January 2018 Read more...

Hostiles review – powerful but preachy Frontier fable

Friday, 05 January 2018 Read more...

Albums of the Year 2017: Robert Plant - Carry Fire

Sunday, 31 December 2017 Read more...

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

Sunday, 31 December 2017 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 26 December 2017 Read more...

Maigret in Montmartre, ITV review - dirty deeds in clubland

Sunday, 24 December 2017 Read more...

The Greatest Showman review - the great huckster as song and dance man

Wednesday, 20 December 2017 Read more...

Witnesses: A Frozen Death finale, BBC Four review - weirdo childbirth cult hits the buffers

Sunday, 17 December 2017 Read more...

The Tunnel: Vengeance, Sky Atlantic review - entente not-so-cordiale

Friday, 15 December 2017 Read more...

Brigsby Bear review - the healing power of fantasy

Friday, 08 December 2017 Read more...

The Crown, Series 2, Netflix review - all our yesterdays, cunningly rewritten

Friday, 08 December 2017 Read more...

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Opening acts don’t always enjoy a full house, but at at the Royal Albert Hall at the end of a UK tour in support of Suzanne Vega and her acclaimed...

Train Dreams review - one man's odyssey into the Americ...

What defines a life? Money and success? Happiness? Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams employs a narrator, much as Terrence Malick’s...

Kali Malone and Drew McDowell generate 'Magnetism'...

It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually more people than ever...

Palestine 36 review - memories of a nation

“Rebellion begins with a breath,” an opening aphorism declares in this first film recounting Palestine’s 1936-39 Arab Revolt, long historically...

The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera - pointless feminist compli...

Janáček described his nature-versus-humanity fable The Cunning Little Vixen as “a merry thing with a sad...

Othello, Theatre Royal, Haymarket review - a surprising mix...

Perspectives on Shakespeare's tragedy have changed over the decades....

Benson Boone, O2 London review - sequins, spectacle and chee...

After cancelling his Birmingham gig an hour before curtain-up due to illness, the anticipatory hype around whether...

Die My Love review - good lovin' gone bad

Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of...

Midlake's 'A Bridge to Far' is a tour-de-forc...

“Climb upon a bridge to far, go anywhere your heart desires.” The key phrase from the title track of Midlake’s sixth studio album conveys the...