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posted 31-10-2011 17:05
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I dunno, I haven't seen any of these interviews so I'm a bit oblivious to all this. When I interviewed him, he didn't slag off Marco at all. He just failed to mention him. (Which tells its own story, I guess.)
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posted 31-10-2011 17:09
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Failing to mention is fine, understandable.
I like the bloke and wish him well. I hope they become chums again even though I felt left out when they were having constant giggling phone conversations all the bleeding time.
Anyway, I will probably go to Wilton's, so may see you there.
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posted 31-10-2011 17:52
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I don't want to hammer this home, but just so you know what I'm on about, here are the pair discussing the writing process re. Stand and Deliver, a couple of years back.
www.m-magazine.co.uk/featuresinterviews/...s/stand-and-deliver/
‘We wrote Stand and Deliver and Prince Charming at the same time,’ says Pirroni. ‘Before I even picked up the guitar, I knew they were going to be No.1. That wasn’t me being arrogant. In my head it was just a fact.’
He recalls going round to Adam’s house in Kensington to write Stand and Deliver.
‘Adam already had this idea about a highwayman. He’d gone off in the kitchen to make some tea and by the time he’d come back I’d come up with the “galloping” verse. The verse is the same as the chorus, but there is a little descending bit which he came up with. And then there’s the verse and different key for the guitar solo. Adam came up with the “Da diddley qa qa” lyric. He’d had that line knocking about for ages.’
Adam picks up the conversation: ‘Marco and I wrote the music together and I wrote the lyrics and top line. My inspiration for the song came from the idea of the heroic English antihero highwayman holding up a stagecoach, but stealing people’s attention instead of their valuables.
‘We had a very traditional and stripped down approach to writing songs. We would go in a room, with two acoustic guitars at the ready and a small dictaphone recorder. Then we’d take it into a 16- track demo studio in Denmark Street to lay down a loose but solid structure. We never wrote in the studio. Time was money and we didn’t have any to waste. This discipline has stayed with me to the present day.’
It was Adam who also came up with the concept and imagery for the band’s videos, as well as their lyrics, both of which would complement Marco’s idiosyncratic riffs.
Compare and contrast with a recent Adam interview on the Guardian website.
www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/oct/...ession-stand-deliver
and this, from a recent Uncut magazine .. although this is so juvenile it's quite funny.
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posted 08-11-2011 12:59
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Will US Immigration allow him in?
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posted 08-11-2011 14:35
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We shall see .. He's been holding it very well together recently and apart from the odd rant and the Napoleon/Nelson thing, not acting any "madder" than most. Than most lead singers, anyway.
There are 18 dates planned at the moment, not all announced yet.
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posted 08-11-2011 15:38
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I like how you and Ticketmaster are on top of these things, but adam-ant.net is apparently in the dark.
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posted 08-11-2011 17:43
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Monk, who runs the site, doesn't like to put anything on there until it's definitely definite, as there have been some false starts. The visa application is "in hand", apparently, and there will be full refunds if the gigs don't happen. It would be a shame if people missed out because the tickets sold out before it was all confirmed.
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posted 08-11-2011 17:47
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Actually, MsD, I was thinking less about his state of mind, and more about his conviction and how the US would see it.
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posted 08-11-2011 17:53
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Well yeah, me too, as people have been turned down for far more trivial (non violent) offences. But the state of mind bit comes in if he gets the visa, then has to go through airport procedures and questioning.
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posted 17-11-2011 10:50
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Tickets on sale for many major cities including NYC and SF, selling quite fast. No news on visa front.
I'm glad to see he's been playing what appears to be a genuinely new song in his set, Vince Taylor (although possibly drafted long ago) - the other "new" songs that have been played around are old songs he co-wrote with MP.
Meanwhile Marco "I'll never play live again so don't ask me" Pirroni played some of their co-written hits live with Terry Lee Miall at the Ant Convention on Saturday, to great acclaim (there's a review on John Robb's Louder Than Bombs blog). Hmm.
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posted 17-11-2011 10:57
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MsD wrote:
I'm glad to see he's been playing what appears to be a genuinely new song in his set, Vince Taylor (although possibly drafted long ago)
That's nothing like Just Like Vince Taylor, the B-side to Golden Earring's Radar Lover is it?
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posted 17-11-2011 11:00
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Oh, as if he'd nick an obscure B side. Winky thing.
I no longer have Radar Love so can't check.
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posted 05-01-2012 03:51
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The US tour is OFF. Don't think anyone here got tickets, altho Mr Fatbastard who posts on here was quite keen. He'd sold out some pretty big venues, they'll all issue refunds.
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posted 05-01-2012 20:56
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Slightly on tenterhooks until the Celeb Big Brother line-up is announced.
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posted 05-01-2012 23:09
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MsD wrote:
Slightly on tenterhooks until the Celeb Big Brother line-up is announced.
On standby perhaps?
Those Californian twins are hot as a camels ass.
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posted 06-01-2012 00:23
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I did have reasons for thinking he was going in earlier.
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posted 06-01-2012 05:04
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To clarify for anyone who is interested: the US tour is postponed not cancelled, put back to autumn 2012.
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posted 13-02-2012 00:47
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Adam now in Australia, so that bodes well for a future US tour. In that he got a visa and managed the journey.
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posted 21-02-2012 10:46
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Just caught up the entire thread, prompted by this article in the Grauniad:
Adam Ant interview
I just hope things go well for him and he's OK.
Does anyone else think the latter-day Ant bears an uncanny resemblance to Johnny Depp? Or has this been said before?
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