Adam Bloodworth
Adam Bloodworth covers how culture, nightlife and luxury spaces shape modern entertainment and everyday life, treating venues, performances and fashion as parts of the same story.
He is a Features Journalist and Deputy Life&Style Editor at City A.M., a role he has held since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and its website.
In this role, he oversees coverage of film, TV, music, theatre, things to do, and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives.
He also serves as Deputy Editor for City A.M. The Magazine, a quarterly luxury lifestyle publication that he writes and commissions for.
Beyond print, he is an on-air commentator, having been interviewed by broadcast outlets including BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland and BBC Three Counties Radio.
Nightlife, restaurants and luxury spaces
Bloodworth frequently reports on the evolution of nightlife and hospitality, profiling new hotels and members’ clubs that aim to rebirth central districts.
Recent work includes a feature on the St Clement hotel from the founder of Soho House, framed around the idea that the property could rebirth central London nightlife with dimly lit bars, restaurants and new sightlines over the Thames.
He provides first looks at revamped institutions such as Quaglino’s, describing how the legendary St James restaurant has been extensively renovated ahead of its hundredth birthday and how its atmosphere recalls a 1990s golden era.
His restaurant reviews tend to combine assessments of food with attention to mood and excess, as in his coverage of Dante Mayfair at Claridge’s, structured around the question of how many martinis make a true celebratory dinner.
Similarly, his review of La Môme at The Berkeley considers whether the new restaurant works best when it embraces high camp, while noting that the food needs further development.
Across these pieces he treats hospitality venues as cultural spaces, judging them by the stories and experiences they offer as much as by their menus.
Live music, gigs and new venues
Music coverage is a core part of Bloodworth’s beat, with live gig reviews and venue profiles that foreground performance energy and audience experience.
His review of Harry Styles at Wembley Stadium describes the singer running laps around an elevated walkway, sweating through a thick cotton shirt in the heat, and earns the show a four-star rating.
He connects this focus on pop performance to fashion and nightlife in a feature on why the tie is making a comeback, noting that musicians and London’s underground club scene are reclaiming the corporate staple.
He reports on infrastructure for live music too, such as Apple’s announcement of a new 600-capacity venue near Battersea Power Station, detailing its flexible stage configuration, immersive sound system and dual function as a recording studio.
Earlier work includes festival coverage such as a look toward the BFI Flare LGBTQ film festival, indicating an interest in events that foreground diverse storytelling.
Taken together, these pieces show that he treats music stories as both performance reviews and dispatches from the spaces where fans and artists meet.
Theatre, classics and queer stages
Bloodworth regularly reviews theatre, moving between classic texts and contemporary queer work.
His review of Cock, a revival of the 2009 queer breakthrough play, interrogates why people define themselves by the partners they have sex with and explores the play’s existential crisis around desire.
He applies a sharper critical edge to productions that do not convince him, as in his two-star review of The Duchess of Malfi, which he describes as overstimulating and overstated despite the presence of Jodie Whittaker.
His coverage of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever highlights Richard E Grant as perfect Coward fodder, signalling his interest in performers whose personas align closely with classic roles.
Across these theatre pieces he balances plot summary, performance analysis and a clear star-rating system, offering direct guidance on whether a show is worth the audience’s time.
Interviews and first-person features
Interviews and first-person features are another distinguishing strand of Bloodworth’s work, often built around encounters with high-profile figures or his own immersion in a lifestyle experience.
In City A.M. The Magazine he conducts a long-form interview with Robert De Niro about the actor’s enduring love for Nobu and his protective approach to the hospitality businesses he co-founded.
He brings the same access to contemporary stars in his conversation with Tom Holland, where the actor discusses alcohol-free living, beer tasting with Zendaya and the pleasures of sobriety at a Bero launch event.
Bloodworth places himself in the story in experiential pieces such as his attempt to learn polo with England captain Tommy Beresford, narrating the challenge of dangling perilously off a horse in a sport associated with kings and aristocrats.
Even his dining and nightlife reviews often adopt a first-person frame, as when he works out how many martinis is too many over dinner at Dante Mayfair.
These features show that he uses his own perspective to test the worlds he covers, while keeping the focus on the personalities, brands and experiences that define contemporary entertainment and lifestyle.
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