Staff then asked him to leave as the premises were a private members' club. Before storming off, Ant angrily told them all that he would be back. Some hours later, finding a discarded car alternator in the street, Ant threw it through the pub window. The broken glass injured 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.
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 , and spent a further six months receiving in-patient psychiatric care. He was eventually granted a conditional discharge by the judge at Highbury Magistrates Court. In the television special entitled The Madness of Prince Charming was aired in the UK documenting Ant's career and his struggle with mental illness he was diagnosed as suffering with bipolar disorder.
After the success of the first edition the paperback edition was published a year later, September ; it contains a new epilogue which covers the year following the initial hardback release. That month also marked a return to live music. Ant performed yet another low key show at the Southwark Playhouse on Saturday 20 March. On Tuesday 18 May Adam Ant was returned to psychiatric hospital — in his own words " at Her Majesty's Pleasure " —, albeit in a comfortable regime at a London NHS hospital, where he remained until mid-June, subsequently returning home under outpatient supervision.
In an official statement, Ant expressed an intention to perform further gigs later in the year once his hospitalisation had ended. Although he gave at least one live performance in the immediate aftermath of his release a jam at a Chelsea bar at some point during the weekend of 19—20 June , which appeared consistent with his previously stated intentions, he otherwise kept a mostly low profile for the rest of his supervised outpatient period.
Some smaller guerilla gigs were performed that Autumn which received no advance billing whatsoever, including a solo show at the Dark Mills festival at London's Colour House Theatre on 4 September , the launch party of the Illamasqua store on 16 September at which Boy George served as DJ , and a guest spot at the Monster Raving Loony Party's annual conference in Fleet, Hampshire, on 25 September.
Ant headlined at the Scala on 18 November, joined by a trio of female backing singers which included Georgina Bailie and Tiffany Vivienne Brown. The gig received positive reviews and three days later again topped the bill at a tribute concert for former Ant Matthew Ashman on 21 November at the same venue, in a show also featuring later Ashman bands Bow Wow Wow, Chiefs of Relief, Agent Provocateur and London rock act Slam Cartel. He finished the month by playing further dates of his " Ant spent time in Paris where he played low-key shows his first gigs outside the UK in nearly 16 years.
That same day, Ant held a press conference and media preview gig at Under The Bridge in Chelsea at which he formally unveiled plans for an eleven date UK concert tour as with the Paris concert, the first such event in 16 years due to run from 16 May to 4 June Also announced at the Chelsea event was a public screening of the December Prince Charming Revue concert video plus a question-and-answer session to be held in South London's Coronet Cinema on 11 May By the time the tour got underway on 16 May in Brighton, the original eleven date itinerary had been expanded to fifteen dates.
Ant successfully completed the entire schedule of tour dates which were overwhelmingly enthusiastically received.
There was only one serious negative onstage incident, at Fat Sam's in Dundee on 21 May when Ant reacted angrily to some crowd elements who booed his kilt decorated with the St George's Cross. The tour closed in Manchester on 5 June with a show at the city's Manchester Academy. Ant also announced a follow-up UK tour described as the "second leg" of the tour , initially scheduled to run for twelve dates from 11 November in Bristol until 13 December in Newcastle.
As with the previous leg, Ant passed the time until the tour playing one-off dates, appearing with his tour band in Bedford on 10 September before three days later reuniting with band members Crewdson and Love for a charity show on board HMS Belfast. As with the previous tour, the itinerary was expanded from the initial 12 dates to an eventual 21 dates running from 10 November in Frome until 16 December in Norwich, with a non-tour acoustic gig at a benefit event for London's Wilton Hall venue thrown in for good measure.
Just three days after the final Norwich date of the tour, Ant was back onstage again with two members of his live band on 19 December at a charity event at Ronnie Scott's. The first record release of Ant's s comeback also occurred at this point, with the release of the Sex Drugs and HIV compilation album featuring Ant's version of Get A Grip which had been recorded a year earlier while the World Tour of London was in progress.
A few days before the end of the second leg of his UK tour, it was officially announced that Ant would be making his return to the US with a 15 date North American tour in February , starting on 2 February in Ant's former adopted hometown of Los Angeles and running until 25 February in nearby Anaheim. A few days into the new year, however, it was announced that the tour was postponed until the Autumn.
A five-date warm-up UK mini tour for Ant and his band nonetheless went ahead for 19—24 January The mini tour — and Ant — received some unexpected publicity three days before the opening date when a year-old Japanese female was detained in a raid on Ant's home by the UK Border Agency pending deportation due to an expired visa.
To promote this exhibition, Ant performed a solo charity concert at the gallery on 6 March with the same two band members as the Ronnie Scotts concert from the previous December. The concert was well received, although an inebriated Chrissie Hynde who was in attendance, heckled throughout the performance. While this exhibition was on, Ant took his band on tour to Australia with an initial five date schedule spread over a two-week period from 23 March to 8 April, taking in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.
In mid February, Ant made a warm-up visit to Australia, including an appearance on the Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight show recorded on 13 February for transmission on 15 February and promotional work in Melbourne and Sydney. Although poor ticket sales forced the cancellation of the Adelaide gig, the remaining four concerts all went ahead.
The Sydney Morning Herald gave a reservedly positive review of the opening Sydney date on 23 March which it rated three stars out of five , noting "In a set plus two encores the first cheered for; the second not really but played anyway comprising 30 songs, it was kind of the equivalent of throwing a lot of make-up at the mirror and seeing what stuck.
Subsequently, for the second year running, Ant was scheduled to make appearances on the summer festival circuit, interspersed with various one-off dates around the UK. This got off to an early start when Ant stepped in as replacement headliner at the Bearded Theory festival in Derby on 18 May , when the Levellers had to pull out due to one of the band members being injured. Sometimes I will have the opportunity, where there may be a little story about where the song came from or what I was doing at the time I wrote it.
Q Yet, it sounds like you would certainly have a lot to talk about if you decided to share it with the crowd. ADAM To me, they were like little three-minute movies.
I had been trained — I went to art school and I had been making short films. There, I learned to storyboard the ideas. So, in making a video I had a lyric I had written and had the opportunity to kind of expand on everything, and give a little bit of insight to the ideas behind the lyrics.
So, suddenly, I was in the forest jumping out of trees and holding up stagecoaches — really just trying to go a bit Hollywood on myself. Those videos were not just sporadically done. It was done to storyboarding, pretty much like a mini-movie. I wanted a knife thrower to throw a knife and stick in the side of the jukebox.
The man should be talking to a doctor, I worry, not a nosy journalist. We try some small talk, but it's almost impossible to make out what he's saying — until I ask what he prefers to be called. And then gradually, inch by inch, he starts to relax. It is still quite a stretch to believe this can be the same man whose fearless, white-striped face stared down from the bedroom wall of pretty much every teenage girl I knew back in the early 80s.
Fifteen hit singles — among them Prince Charming and Stand and Deliver — in just three years, and lavishly baroque videos, made Ant one of the decade's first pop superstars, inspiring Antmania in a generation of hysterical fans and selling more than 16m albums, before the singer quit in , to become an actor in the United States. Over the years since then he has acted in some respectable if unmemorable TV shows and movies, made a couple of moderately successful albums, and toured small venues across Europe and the US.
He married briefly, had a daughter, divorced and moved back to London. But he has also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, hospitalised repeatedly, medicated, sectioned and convicted of affray.
He last made the national headlines in , when he was found by police, tearful and half naked, curled up in the basement of his local cafe, having just attacked his neighbour's flat. But next month the singer will take to the stage again, performing live at the Proud Gallery in Camden , London, to launch a photographic retrospective of his career.
As with many 80s pop icons, it is easy to recall his flamboyant camp as faintly comical, but the exhibition is a startling reminder of his commitment to an aesthetic that was fanatically detailed, highly imaginative and heavily influenced by the sensibility of punk.
Ant's relationship with his younger self bears no trace of ironic nostalgia, and he still gets annoyed when anyone muddles him up with the early 80s new romantic scene.
The Ants was a punk band , or a post-punk band if anything, and so historically it's inaccurate. New romantic was basically, in my mind, clubbers with too much makeup on with stupid clothes.
I never set foot in any of their clubs, so I find it quite distressing to be nobbled into new romantic, cos it was just a load of guys who looked like they'd had a row with their girlfriends' makeup. There was nothing tough about it, nothing dangerous about it, it was soft electro stuff and it just looked a bit wet.
And I didn't like being associated with it. A man of 58 who still cares this much should probably come across as faintly ridiculous, but the intense seriousness with which Ant deconstructs these arcane distinctions conveys an impression of almost heartbreaking vulnerability.
He is also, though, surprisingly pragmatic about the choice between art and commercial success. The first Adam and the Ants album , released in , was too "self-indulgent" to sell well, and he admits: "I wanted money. I just wanted to be — well, I'm quite a competitive person, I want to win. When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
So Ant hired Malcolm McLaren to manage the band, but it didn't quite go to plan, because McLaren promptly poached most of its members and formed a new group called Bow Wow Wow. But I also realised that Malcolm was pretty much telling the truth.
However, despite what the Internet claims, he never performed his hits alongside fellow English star David Bowie. Ant, who turned 65 on Nov. One of the most prominent changes was the addition of an exuberant brass section that was as front and center as the guitars. It paid off. He scored a U. But Ant has stated that he has been a teetotaler his entire career.
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