Fuzz You!
Adam Ant’s comeback album after 17 years is being run down with a lot of respect and affection by reviewers all over the blogosphere. ‘It sucks but it’s good to have him back’, seems to be the general sentiment. 32 years of fandom do not make me biased enough to defend Adam Ant Is The [...]
Concert review Adam Ant, Patronaat, Haarlem, December 9th 2012. My life as a teenager started after I closed the door of Musicland record store behind me in the spring of 1981, clutching my very first self-bought single: Stand & Deliver by Adam & the Ants. Since then I was no longer a kid, I was [...]
The water shines/a pebble skips across the face/a dozen times, then disappears, not a trace left behind/the thrower turns and walks away/a change of mind, another start a brand new day. No, these aren’t lines from a Simon & Garfunkel song. They were written by a man who is as far from a singer-songwriter as [...]
It must have been late 1981 or early 1982 when my mom bought me the official songbook to Kings of the Wild Frontier, the breakthrough album of my big early-teen idol Adam ant. Together with the second batch of Ants (the first batch having been stolen by Malcolm Mclaren to form Bow wow wow) Adam [...]