| Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying The Gunner's Daughter | ||||
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| Studio album by Adam Ant | ||||
| Released | January 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2009–2010 | |||
| Genre | Rock, Punk, Pop | |||
| Label | Blueblack Hussar | |||
| Producer | Adam Ant, Boz Boorer | |||
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Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying The Gunner's Daughter is the upcoming sixth solo studio album by Adam Ant. The album is due to be released in 2012 by Ant's own record label Blueblack Hussar Records,[1] as confirmed by Ant's official website and numerous interviews. The album's title was announced by Ant in the NME in April 2010.[2][3] It has been confirmed that the album will be released in early 2012.[4]
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Adam Ant started working on the album in late 2009, originally recording with writing partner Marco Pirroni. However they separated and scrapped all work around March 2010 coinciding with Ant's return to live performance. The majority of the double album was recorded with Boz Boorer on a laptop, additionally Chris McCormack co-wrote 6 of the album's tracks. Ant has explained that the idea behind the album's title is that the Blueblack Hussar is his classic Kings of the Wild Frontier-era persona, back from the dead, while the phrase "marrying the gunner's daughter" (an old naval term for a form of corporal punishment in which sailors were tied to a ship's cannon and flogged) is intended by Ant to serve as a metaphor for how he believes artists are treated by the music industry. The album first started to receive attention after NME confirmed Ant was back in the studio in March 2010. It was initially announced Gun In My Pocket would be the first single, backed with Who's A Goofy Bunny as the b-side, a tribute to the recently deceased Malcolm McLaren.[2][5]
Ant also worked with Beady Eye member Andy Bell on a track called Cool Zombie, however Liam Gallagher attempted to block its inclusion on the album.[6]
In early 2011, in preparation for a cover feature for issue 2 of Vive Le Rock magazine, Ant granted journalist John Robb an exclusive listen to the entire work-in-progress for the upcoming album. Robb reported in the feature that the songs written with McCormack were "tough, hard neo-industrial song that sound like the Physical-era Ants" while those written with Boorer were "really cool twangy rockers." Gun In My Pocket was "a rocking neo-Stooges rush" and other songs were described as "slower almost ballad-like songs, and a brace of off the wall angular moments that hark back to the groundbreaking Ants of the debut Dirk Wears White Sox album"[7]
Gun In My Pocket has since been renamed Rubber Medusa, which is a term Ant uses to describe Russell Brand. (Ant said "I call him the Rubber Medusa because he looks like rubber when he walks, and his hair is crazy.") The song, which includes the lyric "Look up 'wanker'/and there's a picture of you" is about the Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row and targets Russell Brand, Johnathan Ross,[8] Gallagher and Katy Perry, and the lyrics also imply that Brand shouts his own name when having sex.[9] Georgina Baillie played the song, which she and Ant co-wrote, with her band during support slots for Ant's two 2011 tours.
The songs Call Me Sausage, Hard Men, Tough Blokes and punkyoungirl were originally demos from 1997 which have been reworked for the album.[10]
The album is to be released as a double album in 2012 on CD, vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve and cassette.[4] The cover has been designed by Mary Jane Ansell.[3]
A 40 second clip of the proposed single Hard Men, Tough Blokes was released on Ant's official website on 16 August 2011.[11]
Vince Taylor was also a regular additon to Ant's setlist on the second leg of his 2011 UK tour.
On Absolute Radio on 4 January 2011, Ant announced that the first single will be a double a-side of Hard Men, Tough Blokes and punkyoungirl, both tracks receiving their radio premieres on the show .[12] The single will be released in late 2011.
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