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Nick Hasted

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Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Uncut, Jazzwise and Classic Rock. He has published three books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), and Jack White: How He Built An Empire From The Blues (2016).

Articles By Nick Hasted

David Lynch: In Dreams (1946-2025)

Monday, 20 January 2025 Read more...

Nickel Boys review - a soulful experiment

Saturday, 04 January 2025 Read more...

Albums of the Year 2024: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God

Tuesday, 31 December 2024 Read more...

The Commander review - the good Italian

Tuesday, 10 December 2024 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson on 'Rumours'

Saturday, 07 December 2024 Read more...

Interview: Roy Haynes, Jazz Drumming Giant (1925-2024)

Wednesday, 13 November 2024 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Oblong Box

Tuesday, 12 November 2024 Read more...

Album: Chuck Prophet - Wake the Dead

Saturday, 02 November 2024 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Outcasts

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 Read more...

London Film Festival 2024 - Nickel Boys, crime and punishment and Ukraine

Saturday, 26 October 2024 Read more...

London Film Festival 2024 - a shaman and sham

Saturday, 26 October 2024 Read more...

Venom: The Last Dance review - Tom Hardy's people-eater bows out

Saturday, 26 October 2024 Read more...

Dahomey review - return of the king

Wednesday, 23 October 2024 Read more...

Milisuthando review - exorcising apartheid

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 Read more...

Blu-ray: Michael Powell - Early Works

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 Read more...

Salem’s Lot review - listless King remake

Sunday, 13 October 2024 Read more...

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Eddie Pepitone, Special review - return of the curmudgeon

There aren’t many comics like Eddie Pepitone any more – the veteran comic’s shtick harks to back an earlier age, pre-suitable for TV...

Album: Indigo de Souza - Precipice

Indigo de Souza, a singer from North Carolina, has established some reputation, mostly in the States, for combining...

Dying review - they fuck you up, your mum and dad

Despite the title of Matthias Glasner’s award-winning drama, and the death that swirls around its characters, dying isn’t really its subject, but...

Album: Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From...

There can be few musicians on the planet from a more storied musical dynasty than Mádé Kuti. He is the son of Femi, the grandson of Fela. He grew...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her...

Over a decade ago, a handful of Greek filmmakers set out to reinvent the national cinema amid the country's social and economic decline...

The Human League/Marc Almond/Toyah, Brighton Beach review -...

Today gradually blossoms from unpromising beginnings. LouderUK’s On The Beach event series takes place throughout the summer and runs the gamut...

A Moon for the Misbegotten, Almeida Theatre review - Michael...

Michael Shannon's long legs reach to the stars – or perhaps one should say the moon – in the Almeida's...

Album: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper

Great (and not so great) bands reforming, either in the studio or in the live arena, is something of a trend at the moment. However, who would...

Burlesque, Savoy Theatre review - exhaustingly vapid

"It all starts with a snap," or so we're told early in the decidedly un-snappy Burlesque, which spends three hours borrowing shamelessly...