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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

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

Friday, 19 January 2024 Read more...

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

Friday, 12 January 2024 Read more...

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

Thursday, 11 January 2024 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 03 January 2024 Read more...

Best of 2023: TV

Monday, 01 January 2024 Read more...

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

Saturday, 30 December 2023 Read more...

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

Thursday, 28 December 2023 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 27 December 2023 Read more...

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

Sunday, 24 December 2023 Read more...

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

Sunday, 24 December 2023 Read more...

Blood Coast, Netflix review - mayhem in Marseille

Saturday, 16 December 2023 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 12 December 2023 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 05 December 2023 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 28 November 2023 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 Read more...

Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Disney+ review - classic underdog tale of the little team that could

Thursday, 16 November 2023 Read more...

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”

This extract...

Album: Benson Boone - American Heart

I first had a conversation about Benson Boone without realizing it was him we were talking about. It went something like: “Did...

28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

RNCM International Diploma Artists, BBC Philharmonic, MediaC...

Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they call...

With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...

Classical CDs: Bells, whistles and bowing techniques

 

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Album: Yungblud - Idols

Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.

So, what musical...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...