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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

Maigret in Montmartre, ITV review - dirty deeds in clubland

Sunday, 24 December 2017 Read more...

The Greatest Showman review - the great huckster as song and dance man

Wednesday, 20 December 2017 Read more...

Witnesses: A Frozen Death finale, BBC Four review - weirdo childbirth cult hits the buffers

Sunday, 17 December 2017 Read more...

The Tunnel: Vengeance, Sky Atlantic review - entente not-so-cordiale

Friday, 15 December 2017 Read more...

Brigsby Bear review - the healing power of fantasy

Friday, 08 December 2017 Read more...

The Crown, Series 2, Netflix review - all our yesterdays, cunningly rewritten

Friday, 08 December 2017 Read more...

Witnesses: A Frozen Death, BBC Four review - plummeting temperatures in the Pas de Calais

Sunday, 26 November 2017 Read more...

Ferrari: Race to Immortality review - death and glory in 1950s motor racing

Thursday, 02 November 2017 Read more...

The Exorcist, Phoenix Theatre review - see the movie

Wednesday, 01 November 2017 Read more...

Strike Back, Series 6, Sky 1 review - more stories for boys

Wednesday, 01 November 2017 Read more...

Steely Dan / The Doobie Brothers, Bluesfest 2017 review - brilliant Dan, delicious Doobies

Monday, 30 October 2017 Read more...

Breathe review - heroic but airbrushed struggle against disability

Thursday, 26 October 2017 Read more...

Gunpowder, BBC One review – death, horror, treason and a hint of farce

Sunday, 22 October 2017 Read more...

George Michael: Freedom, Channel 4 review - just a supersized commercial?

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Mindhunter / My Generation - Fincher comes to Netflix, Caine does Swinging London

Friday, 13 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Blade of the Immortal / Redoubtable - Samurai slasher versus the Nouvelle Vague

Thursday, 12 October 2017 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...