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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Outrageous, U&Drama review - skilfully-executed depictio...
If somebody submitted a treatment for a new costume drama series set in the...
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...
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...