Adam Ant is fit, in fine fettle, and currently writing a new album, The Quietus can exclusively reveal.
With the enigmatic pop star set to take to the stage at Scala, London on April 30, he sat down with The Quietus to tell us all about his current music plans.
He revealed that his new album will be called Adam Ant is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter and he has been working on it with former 3 Colours Red guitarist Chris McCormack.
The B-side, meanwhile, will be ‘Goofy Bunny’, which Ant describes as "like a lullaby" a tribute to the late Malcolm McLaren.
Speaking about his history with McLaren, Ant said, "The Pistols was all Malcolm, really. I was lucky to know Malcolm. He was like my dad. I’ve never, ever said anything bad about Malcolm. I’ve only said the truth about him and he’s only said the truth about me. I met him when I was an art student, and I was trying to hawk some jewellery that me and my missus were trying to sell to supplement our education. He didn’t buy it – I sold it to Lee Bender at Bus Stop instead, cos he was a bit Biba-ish, Marlon Brando, James Dean, all that. But I went into Sex, his shop, and Malcolm said ‘Do some penises, boy, and I’ll buy them off you’. But he had a look at them for about 20 minutes… Same with Dirk Wears White Sox. He listened to every fucking word of Dirk, and said ‘Good album, but it’s your fifth album. It’s the one you make when you’ve sold millions of records. It’s not a first album.’ So I said ‘What do you want?’ and I signed with him."
He added that he had no resentment toward McLaren for using the original members off his Ants backing back to form Bow Wow Wow. "I was sore, but not with Malcolm," Ant explained. "It wasn’t Malcolm who betrayed me. It was Dave (Barbarossa), Matthew (Ashman) and Leigh (Gorman). I’d only known Leigh for 10 minutes and I was pissed off because he was the best bass player I’ve ever fucking seen, still is. "
Check back on The Quietus soon to read our exclusive interview with Adam Ant.
