Adam Ant
London Chelsea Under The Bridge
5th August, 2011

Adam Ant, this time a dandy buccaneer, rolled back the years, ably assisted by two drummers, two guitars and two backing singers straight out of Essex casting (“Twinkle”, anyone?) His early punk days were well represented by the likes of opening stomper, Plastic Surgery, fuzz guitar and rattling skins to the fore. His trademark yodel followed on Dog Eat Dog, there was the prototypical Jack Sparrow wiggle before donning guitar on Car Trouble, and Deutscher Girls saw the twin lovelies raise the mercury. Stand And Deliver and Kings Of The Wild Frontier remain era standards, while Ant Music had the audience in good voice. The tempo slowed for Never Trust A Man before a rockabilly Goody Two Shoes and racy Vive Le Rock. Two encores included the disco ANTS, Bolan’s Get It On and 20th Century Boy (prefaced by a quip about “that fucking idiot Morrissey” – cue rousing cheer!) and his trad closer of Physical.