Soldier Ants of War: 40 Years After
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Army Ants: A Name That Doesn't Lie
Flip over their hit singles and you almost invariably found songs about sexual fetishism, sadomasochism, the erotic thrill of being tattooed. Furthermore, at the start of , no one in their right mind would have picked Adam Ant as a major pop star in waiting. For one thing, the band were deeply unfashionable minor players in the post-punk world: McLaren had at least left him with a couple of ideas.
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I wanted to use my voice like an instrument, like a battering ram. Ant took both ideas to Pirroni, a former punk face — he had played with Siouxsie and the Banshees at the famous Club punk festival in — who had recently quit as guitarist of 4AD-signed band Rema-Rema. Scritti Politti, gigs at the Acklam Hall, I hated it all. There was this South African musical called Ipi Tombi on in the West End at the time and, at one point, Adam had this idea that we should get the drummers from that.
Instead, the new lineup featured two drummers, an idea Ant says he stole from James Brown. Putting the Apache war stripe across my nose was a declaration of arms against the music industry, which I felt had ignored me and treated me very unfairly.
I wanted to look like a buccaneer: They were the most ridiculed regiment in the British army because they were thought to be too well dressed. They were despised by the rest of the army, but they did this heroic, disastrous thing.
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In spring , suitably decked out, the new Adam and the Ants went on tour, playing some of their old songs to mollify long-term fans. Some gigs were triumphant; others, including a show in Huddersfield, descended into violence.
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They signed a publishing deal, which led to a contract with CBS Records — although, Pirroni claims, not without a struggle. Whether it would appeal to anyone else initially seemed a moot point — released in July , the first single from the album of the same name, Kings of the Wild Frontier, struggled to No 48, then vanished. By March , three minutes of thunderous drums, white noise and shouting was at No 2. One year and one album later — Prince Charming which contained a No 3 single and two chart-toppers had gone platinum — Adam and the Ants had broken up.
We should make it more panto! Then again, nor has anyone else: British pop music has done many things in the ensuing decades, but it has never produced anything remotely like Adam and the Ants.
And the public grabbed hold of it. And then — perhaps considering the stuff about the 11th Hussars and fetishism and the Ingoma Tribe and Joe Orton and 17th-century piracy — he qualifies himself. If you know what I mean.
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