Adam Ant & The Good, the Mad & the Lovely Posse
Adam Ant was the first proper pop star of the 1980’s, a punk with a widescreen vision who transcended his raw debut Dirk Wears White Sox to explode into the charts with the mega selling Kings of Wild Frontier and an image part dandy, part pirate with songs both hummable and downright unusual. He was flanked by two drummers thumping out a Burundi beat behind hits like Ant Music, Dog Eat Dog and number one single Stand and Deliver. Adam Ant went solo in 1982 and had further hits Goody Two Shoes and Apollo 9. The last two decades may have been bumpy for Adam Ant ,with his personal life dragged across the tabloids, but in 2010 he returned with his new band The Good, the Mad and the Lovely Posse and is still fired with the same burning intensity and charisma that shone through his 20s.
“ Adam Ant is still f*king MAGNIFICENT live.” Alexis Petridis (The Guardian) 2011
“To suggest Adam Ant was the greatest pop star of his generation is to understate matters. He was unlike anybody before him, and has influenced more or less every other flamboyantly inclined pop star since.” The Independent 2011