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

Masters of the Air, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant account of the Eighth Air Force's bombing campaign

Read more...

True Detective: Night Country, Sky Atlantic review - death in a cold climate

Read more...

Criminal Record, Apple TV+ review - law and disorder in Hackney

Read more...

Poor Things review - other-worldly adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel

Read more...

The Tourist, Series 2, BBC One review - an amnesiac Jamie Dornan explores his Irish roots

Read more...

Best of 2023: TV

Read more...

The Kemps: All Gold, BBC Two review - bickering with the Ballet boys

Read more...

Murder Is Easy, BBC One review - was this journey really necessary?

Read more...

Mad About the Boy: the Noël Coward Story, BBC Two review - the making of The Master

Read more...

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249, BBC Two review - mummy's boy unleashes hell in the halls of academe

Read more...

The Heist Before Christmas, Sky Max review - the Santa Claus wars

Read more...

Blood Coast, Netflix review - mayhem in Marseille

Read more...

Vigil, Series 2, BBC One review - DCI Silva swaps a submarine for deadly drones

Read more...

Kin, BBC One review - in Dublin's not-so-fair city

Read more...

Boat Story, BBC One review - once upon a time in Yorkshire

Read more...

Napoleon review - Sir Ridley Scott's historical epic is wide but not deep

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...