Adam Sweeting
Bio
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
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Giri/Haji, BBC Two review - inspired Anglo-Japanese thriller...
Well here’s an interesting one. We’ve been up to our eyebrows in Eurocops for the past few years, but this Anglo-Japanese fusion from...
[Blank], Donmar Warehouse review - strong but dispiriting
Clean Break, the theatre company that specialises in working with women in the criminal justice system, is doing a lot of celebrating. It's the...
Non-Fiction - adultery spices up digitisation drama
It isn’t provable whether adultery is more accepted in French ...
Ehnes, Hallé, Gabel, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - h...
Changes from the artists originally advertised can bring some happy discoveries....
CD: Allah-Las - LAHS
It’s unfortunate that LAHS’s opening track is titled “Holding Pattern” as the album only achieves lift off with its ninth cut “Light...
Zombieland: Double Tap review - dead dull redo
Another unnecessary sequel: we’re used to this sort of thing. The film knows it, too, as lead dork Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) meekly thanks the...
The Struts, O2 Forum Kentish Town review - a masterclass in...
Having exploded on to the scene like a cross between Queen and My Chemical Romance, Derby’s young glam-...
Dariescu, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Simonov, Symphony H...
It remains some of the most terrifying music ever written....
Richard Hawley, Barrowland, Glasgow - black clad crooner...
When Richard Hawley arrived onstage, he had a confession to make. “I like to talk”, he declared, before adding “and play rock n’ roll”. Both were...