[kj] (OT) Adam Ant @ The Electric Ballroom - Bipolar Sado-masochist

[Rob Moss]

He's at the 100 club 26 or 27 of this month. Yep. 50 quid 

Said to be a three hour show. 

I reallly don't know about him these days. 

On 4 Jan 2011, at 22:38, Mark Kolmar <mkolmar at gmail.com> wrote:


> My comment is not to begrudge if Adam Ant can get US$80+ per ticket

> these days, but rather to mention that a ticket for a major,

> metropolitan, full orchestra to play so-called masterworks for two

> hours costs a similar amount of money. People can make their own

> judgment of relative value.

> 

> Hope everyone enjoyed. I was a late convert but actually really like the Ants.

> 

> --Mark

> 

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Paul Wady <paulwady at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Let us not forget that our hero is actually, proven and trusted to be, a

>> bipolar sado-masochist.

>> Makes sense he would actually conspire against himself, by doing things to

>> his own set and his band in order to create trouble in a gig.  This gets him

>> 

>> I think to really understand and appreciate him, you need to see him as a

>> self-destructing art-form.

>> ________________________________

>> From: paulwady at hotmail.com

> 

>> The comments on youtube here:

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOIlooCfEfU&feature=related

>> ...are actually quite positive.  A three-hour set is more than enough to

>> cover everything I heard him do in the Union Chapel.  I thought at the time

>> I'd really caught him on a very good night.  I believed I would be very

>> lucky to see as good a show again.

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