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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

Twisters review - satisfyingly cataclysmic storm-chaser saga

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

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Sleep review - things that go bump in the night

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

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

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

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

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theartsdesk Q&A: Lucie Shorthouse is flying high with 'We Are Lady Parts' and 'Rebus'

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The Exorcism review - salvaged horror movie is a diabolical mess

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The Bikeriders review - beer, brawls and Harley-Davidsons

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Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+ review - you read the book and saw the movie...

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Eric, Netflix review - a fairytale of New York

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theartsdesk Q&A: Matthew Modine on 'Hard Miles', 40 years in showbusiness and safer cycling

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Tokyo Vice, Series 2, BBC iPlayer review - an exciting ride that stretches credibility

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The Beach Boys, Disney+ review - heroes and villains and good vibrations

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theartsdesk Q&A: Eddie Marsan and the American Revolution, posh boys and East End gangsters

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The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of...

The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day...

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ibragimova, Queen’s Hall, Edinbu...

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra punches well above its weight when it comes to guest artists, and it was a big thing for them to have someone of...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review - the story of t...

There’s something about hauntingly performed songs written in the first person that can draw us in like nothing else. As songs from...

theartsdesk Q&A: Soft Cell

Seven years ago, Soft Cell were about to perform at a sold-out O2, a one-off event they entitled, after 16 years apart, One Night, One Final Time...

Little Brother, Soho Theatre review - light, bright but emot...

Niall is unwell. Very unwell. Very, very. There’s a lot going on in his head. He can’t really hold things together. Evidence? Well, he’s lost his...

Demi Lovato's ninth album, 'It's Not That Dee...

Demi Lovato is impressive on many fronts. She’s a Noughties Disney...

The Unbelievers, Royal Court Theatre - grimly compelling, po...

Change, we're often told, is the engine of drama: people end up somewhere markedly different from where they began. So the first thing to be said...

Kilsby, Parkes, Sinfonia of London, Wilson, Barbican review...

It was guaranteed: string masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Britten and Elgar would be played and conducted at the very highest level by John...

The Maids, Donmar Warehouse review - vibrant cast lost in a...

Jean Genet’s 1947 play has been quite a clothes-horse over the years, at times a glamorous confection dressed by designers, and...