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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

Haley Fohr: Salomé, Brighton Festival 2019 review – potently camp debauch

Monday, 27 May 2019 Read more...

Rokia Traoré: Dream Mandé: Djata, Brighton Festival 2019 review – resonant griot wisdom

Thursday, 23 May 2019 Read more...

Rokia Traoré: Dream Mandé: Bamanan Djourou, Brighton Festival 2019 review – traditions soar free

Monday, 20 May 2019 Read more...

Chamber Music, Brighton Festival 2019 review - Wu-Tang Clan depths divined

Monday, 20 May 2019 Read more...

The Hustle review - rotten scoundrels

Saturday, 11 May 2019 Read more...

Pokémon Detective Pikachu review - a cute commercial

Friday, 10 May 2019 Read more...

10 Questions for Director Benedikt Erlingsson

Sunday, 05 May 2019 Read more...

Long Shot review - semi-hilarious odd couple romcom

Thursday, 02 May 2019 Read more...

Styx review - high seas, high stakes refugee nightmare

Friday, 26 April 2019 Read more...

Dragged Across Concrete review - Mel Gibson's hard-boiled high

Thursday, 18 April 2019 Read more...

Hellboy review - vivid monster mash

Friday, 12 April 2019 Read more...

Shazam! review - refreshing super-goofiness

Thursday, 04 April 2019 Read more...

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story review - inside Sidebottom's head

Friday, 29 March 2019 Read more...

Under the Silver Lake review - fascinating LA noir folly

Thursday, 14 March 2019 Read more...

The Hole in the Ground review - parental horror stays on the surface

Monday, 04 March 2019 Read more...

The Kid Who Would Be King review - a timeless charmer

Friday, 15 February 2019 Read more...

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Lily Phillips, Monkey Barrel ★★★★

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The Kingdom review - coming of age as the body count rises

The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree is the bitter message of The Kingdom. Director and co-writer...

Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, Rambert, Sa...

If you have never watched a single episode of the BBC period gangster drama Peaky Blinders, I am not sure what you would make...

Mogwai / Lankum, South Facing Festival review - rich atmosph...

Running as part of the South Facing Festival in Crystal Palace Bowl, Thursday’s headliners, Mogwai, and their friends across the water, Lankum,...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Beautiful Future is Comin...

The Beautiful Future is Coming, Traverse Theatre ★★...

Weapons review - suffer the children

Weapons’ enigmatic title, as with Zach...

Classical CDs: Hamlet, harps and haiku

 

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Album: Alison Goldfrapp - Flux

It’s impossible to overstate how much the early 2000s records of Goldfrapp – the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory – set the tone for the...