Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I'm screwed.....I don't have the hair for a mullet.....mines would be more like a Terry Nutkins Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Used to love that song. Yes it was done for Live Aid. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 That guy is just so skinny! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 haha, I love those classy disco lights in the background and also the girl with the big hair, orange shirt and white skirt really knows how to move!! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 As do 'Break Machine' of course. Who can forget their Break Dance Party classic as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGy3tCqkpM Some of those old TOTP clips are gold aren't they. Actually, just watching anyone dance is often funny. Link to post Share on other sites
nagpants 1 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Turn off the jukebox! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Probably John Peel's biggest disappointment, young Adam. He sold out big time. I loved the way he ditched the band, had kids tv like Cheggers and Swap Shop at his mercy, and then started singing songs about shagging. No wonder his career bombed. The BBC has been repeating mid 1970s TOTP shows for the last year or so. Most importantly, they've been showing entire shows just so you can appreciate how much bland, middle of the road shite was on it every week. In a way, it tells you more about punk than any documentary about punk itself. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Didn't Mr Ant have a mental breakdown recently or something? Let's searching Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Looks like "he's back" all tattooed (but of course!) and uber-gnarly. Ant was poised to join the '80s-focused Here & Now tour in January 2002, but was unable to do so after he was charged with throwing a car alternator through a pub window and then threatening patrons with an imitation firearm. The previous evening, Adam has since claimed, he had received telephone threats to himself and his young daughter from the jealous husband of a female Camden Market stallholder who had agreed to make some clothing for him. The following morning, advised by people around Camden that he would find the man in question at the Prince Of Wales pub in Camden, Ant arrived there to confront his persecutor. Some of the pub patrons made fun of his appearance and told him in mocking terms that the man he was looking for was not present. Staff then asked him to leave as the premises was in fact a private members' club. Ant angrily told them all that he would be back before storming off and, some hours later, finding a discarded car alternator in the street, threw it through the pub window, the broken glass injuring a local musician. Chased through the backstreets of Camden by pub security and others, he drove them away by pulling out an old World War II-era starting pistol, once the property of his father. Returning afterwards to the main street, he was spotted by a police patrol, gun still in hand, and arrested as he tried to leave the scene in the back of a minicab. Ant was brought to court at the Old Bailey. The charges against him, which included criminal damage and threatening members of the public, were reduced to a single count of causing affray, to which he pleaded guilty. He was fined £500 and ordered to psychiatric care with a suspended sentence. In June 2003, he was arrested again by police after a conflict with a neighbour resulted in his attempting to smash the neighbour's patio door in with a shovel and then lying down on the concrete floor of a cafe basement with his trousers pulled down, curled up and trying to sleep. Once again he was charged with affray and criminal damage and spent time in psychiatric wards. In September of that year, he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 and spent a further six months of in-patient psychiatric care. He was eventually granted a conditional discharge by the judge at Highbury Magistrates Court. While awaiting his court appearance for the café incident, Ant attempted several fresh musical projects. In 2003, Ant and Wonderful collaborator, Boz Boorer teamed with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (now called The Gorilla Organisation) in a reworking of Stand and Deliver as Save the Gorillas. Originally intended as a benefit record for the endangered mountain gorilla, it was never released, due to copyright and licensing issues relating to the title track. One track from the EP, Jungle Rock, was eventually released on Boorer's 2008 solo LP Miss Pearl. In 2009, it was announced that Ant was planning on putting a new record out, with "sources" telling The Sun that labels were involved in a bidding war over the new material. Adam also expressed interest in working with The Kaiser Chiefs. In an April 2010 interview for the NME, Ant announced he was also working a new album, with the title Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying The Gunner's Daughter. This was planned to feature collaborations with former 3 Colours Red guitarist Chris McCormack, Ant's long-time songwriting partner Marco Pirroni, a member of Oasis (later identified as Andy Bell) and Morrissey's writing partner Boz Boorer. According to Ant, the album is a "live record that lends itself to performance" and will feature a "kind of concept. It's a very old fashioned, old school, step-by-step album". In addition, Ant rerecorded a song in tribute to the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who died earlier that month, and who also once managed Adam & The Ants. Named Who's A Goofy Bunny Then?, the track was only previously available as a demo recorded in the early '80s, but Ant said he wanted to release a new version in tribute to the late punk manager. "Malcolm was a sort of mentor in my life" he explained. "As close as you can get to a surrogate father." The song took its name from a term of endearment bestowed upon McLaren by Ant - referring to his "quite prominent teeth" Ant also reported that he still has "a whole bunch" of demos from the early part of his career that he is considering revisiting and recording properly now. "[There are] literally about a hundred songs done on a four-track and I use them whenever I can," he explained. "There was a whole album before 'Dirk Wears White Sox' (1979 debut album) that never really came out, but I've still got the masters. It's a labour of love, this catalogue. To get rid of it would be like giving away something John Lennon and Paul McCartney banged out in a night in a pub in Liverpool. I think it's your duty to catalogue your work." On 31 December 2010, Ant gave an interview for The Sun (featured in the "Something For The Weekend" segment) in which he discussed in considerable detail the various controversies surrounding his recent life and musical activities. He summed up his upcoming album thus: "The Blueblack Hussar is me coming back to life. I'm like The Terminator - I was a dead man walking". He also discussed individual songs on the album - as well as Gun In My Pocket (which, aside from the Troubador live performance, had also been given a club dancefloor play by Ant himself as guest DJ at the Family Affair clubnight in Shoreditch, London on 24 April 2010), the 31 December 2010 Sun interview also made mention of Shrink, a song about Ant's experiences in the mental healthcare system. Ant had previously discussed both of these songs in his April 2010 interview with Simon Price for online fanzine The Quietus. On his second visit to Iain Lee's show on Absolute Radio on 4 January 2011, two further new tracks were premiered - Hard Men Tough Blokes and punkyoungirl [sic]. In an interview for Bizarre magazine published that month, Ant named the song co-written with Andy Bell as Cool Zombie Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 good job there was a car alternator laying around. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 imagine being scared of a toy gun!! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Ant was brought to court at the Old Bailey. The charges against him, which included criminal damage and threatening members of the public, were reduced to a single count of causing affray, to which he pleaded guilty. He was fined £500 and ordered to psychiatric care with a suspended sentence. In June 2003, he was arrested again by police after a conflict with a neighbour resulted in his attempting to smash the neighbour's patio door in with a shovel and then lying down on the concrete floor of a cafe basement with his trousers pulled down, curled up and trying to sleep. Once again he was charged with affray and criminal damage and spent time in psychiatric wards. In September of that year, he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 and spent a further six months of in-patient psychiatric care. He was eventually granted a conditional discharge by the judge at Highbury Magistrates Court. Is he really called Mr Ant? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 In the run up to Valentines Day Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 You romantic, you Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 It's Saturday, so Everybody Dance Now! (If you want, that is) Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 first time i ever saw this or heard of this band. I have heard the sample a million time, though. love the singer. she is awesome. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I like the dude with the Square Hair Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 square hair was big in the 80s. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 love the singer. she is awesome. The singer is Martha Wash, who was completely ripped off and not shown in that video. Here is the real thing: Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 thanks metabo, must go searching for some of her music. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I prefer the chick in the first vid Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 one for you: and one for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0TuIKVoF4Q&feature=related Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 and a couple more for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YN6CS94rg Link to post Share on other sites
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