Nick Hasted
Bio
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).
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Hansel and Gretel, Shakespeare's Globe review - too sac...
Growing up within a few hundred yards of a major dock, I hardly knew darkness or quiet - the first time I properly felt their...
Album: The Unthanks - In Winter
By and large, most Christmas albums seem to fall into one of two camps. There’s either the lively poptastic soundtracks favoured at family or work...
Grand Theft Hamlet review - intriguing documentary about Sha...
On July 4, 2022, one of the most unusual performances in Hamlet’s lengthy and much travelled CV took place: an in-game stream...
Nightbitch review - Mother's life as a dog
Rachel Yoder says she wrote her debut novel Nightbitch as a reaction to Donald Trump’s first term as President, with what she saw as its...
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Payal Kapadia on 'All We...
Payal Kapadia’s lyrical fiction feature debut...
Giltburg, Bournemouth SO, Wigglesworth, Portsmouth Guildhall...
A time must come again when British orchestras return to complete Tchaikovsky ballet scores in concert, as in the BBC glory days of the great...
Rumours review - pallid satire on geopolitics
It must have seemed such a delicious premise – a Buñuel-esque comedy about world leaders trapped at a luxury retreat as the apocalypse...
Album: Duster - In Dreams
There’s a lot of anger at algorithm-driven music discovery around – a lot of it justified, as the big platforms push the already-big acts and...