wed 16/04/2025

Adam Sweeting

Adam Sweeting's picture
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

Slow Horses, Season 4, Apple TV+ review - Gary Oldman returns as the 'gross and inappropriate' Jackson Lamb

Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: David Morrissey on (among other things) the return of 'Sherwood' and 'Daddy Issues'

Read more...

Sherwood, Series 2, BBC One review - maybe time isn't such a great healer

Read more...

Widow Clicquot review - Haley Bennett stars as the First Lady of champagne

Read more...

Freddie Flintoff: Field of Dreams on Tour, BBC One review - a passage to India with the Preston irregulars

Read more...

Hollywoodgate review - on tour with the Taliban

Read more...

The Instigators, Apple TV+ review - Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are back on the Beantown beat

Read more...

Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, Sky Documentaries review - the New Jersey rocker with many strings to his bow

Read more...

Lady in the Lake, Apple TV+ review - a multi-layered Baltimore murder mystery

Read more...

Twisters review - satisfyingly cataclysmic storm-chaser saga

Read more...

The Jetty, BBC One review - lowlife in a Northern town

Read more...

Sleep review - things that go bump in the night

Read more...

Fly Me to the Moon review - NASA gets a Madison Avenue makeover

Read more...

The Turkish Detective, BBC Two review - a bad business in the Bosphorus

Read more...

The Night Caller, Channel 5 review - all he hears is radio ga ga

Read more...

I Am: Celine Dion, Prime Video review - inside the superstar singer's living hell

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

All the Happy Things, Soho Theatre review - deep feelings, b...

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Or words to that effect. This quote from Milton’s ...

Album: Mark Morton - Without the Pain

Mark Morton is best known as a guitarist with US...

The Forsythe Programme, English National Ballet review - bra...

It’s hard to think of anyone even half as persistent as William Forsythe in changing the conversation around ballet. The American...

Manic Street Preachers, Barrowland, Glasgow review - elder s...

As you might expect from a Manic Street Preachers gig, literary influences were never far away. A DH Lawrence quote was prominently displayed on...

DVD/Blu-ray: In a Year of 13 Moons

A longshot of transgender Elvira (Volker Spengler) circled by gay men, assignation turning to assault as dawn mist rises from Frankfurt’s Main...

Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple TV+ review - in every dr...

It had begun to seem that Jon Hamm, whatever other roles he might appear in, was destined to be forever remembered exclusively as Mad Men...

Goldberg Variations, Ólafsson, Wigmore Hall review - Bach in...

Víkingur Ólafsson had something to prove at the Wigmore Hall. And prove it he did, even if, this time, his Goldberg Variations left a few features...

Shanghai Dolls, Kiln Theatre review - fascinating slice of h...

The writer Amy Ng has made a sterling effort in digging up the true story behind her new play at the Kiln, Shanghai Dolls, but...

Mahler's Ninth, BBC Philharmonic, Gamzou, Bridgewater H...

There was a change of conductor from the one advertised for this BBC Philharmonic performance at the Bridgewater Hall – but the one who we heard...