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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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...
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...
4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu
Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...
The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...
Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...