Adam Ant & The Good the Mad & The Lovely Posse- at Picture House – Edinburgh, UK – December, 11, 2011

The lights went down and the band strolled on. Adam followed, He kicked it off straight away with ‘Plastic Surgery’ in his trademark pirate outfit, smiling away, you just knew it was going to be a good night.

 

He enthusiastically dished out song after song, “Ants Invasion” gets an airing tonight, that wasn’t on the set list earlier in the year, great I thought. Stand and Deliver goes down a treat but as it was early in the year it is ‘Kings of the Wild Frontier’ that really starts to get the whole venue singing along.

“Vince Taylor” a song from the new album due out next year goes down well. Then the famous sound of the intro to “Ant Music” and the whole venue was singing and dancing along, Adam is in top form, slapping his thighs, dancing and smiling all the time. Quickly followed by “goody two shoes” and “vive le rock” ‘Lady’ supposedly about an encounter he had with a lady who took advantage of him during the making of the jubilee movie (probably my favourite track) is played, even though this was the b-side originally when many people thought it should have been the a-side and the response it gets makes you think they still do.

We get told how he was with one of his friends when they saw Marc Bolan and his friend was wanting his autograph but couldn’t do it, so Adam went and got it for him, this is leading to him play his version of “Get it on/20th century boy” by T-Rex.

The night is finished of with him singing “Physical” and it has been as he has put his all into a 2 hour show.


Plastic Surgery
Dog Eat Dog
Beat My Guest
Kick
Car Trouble
Zerox
Ants invasion
Deutscher  Girls
Stand and Deliver
Puss in Boots
Kings of the Wild Frontier
Wonderful
Vince Taylor
Whip in my valise
Desperate Not Serious
Cleopatra
Never trust a Man
Ant music
Goody Two Shoes
Viva Le Rock
Christian D'or
Lady/Fall In

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Red Scab
Prince Charming
Fat Fun
Get It On/20th Century Boy
Physical

 

 

-Dod M.-
Big Wheel Overseas Correspondent

 
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