Talk:Adam Ant

The Blueblack Hussar (documentary film)
In April 2011 it was confirmed that Jamie Reynolds, bassist with The Klaxons was set to produce and help film a new documentary about the forthcoming UK tour. "Adam is sounding great." said Reynolds of his foray into the film business. "I hadn’t seen him perform until last week when he announced his first tour and he’s back on form.". In an interview with Clink Magazine, Ant added that he was "going to go meet The Klaxons in the studio; they’re fans of mine. They’ve financed this film, this documentary that Jack Bond is directing, who did a film called Dali in New York in 1965. And he’s been filming me for the last six months. And that was purely [The Klaxons] saying that they’d like to meet me, and I’m going to go down and have a little play with them. And they’re good-looking kids and they play good music. They’re trying to do something a bit different. And, erm, they’re good."

By December 2011, it was reported that the documentary had completed filming and was now in post-production. The film, by now entitled The Blueblack Hussar, is due to feature the ongoing history of Ant's 2010s comeback, featuring interviews with Ant and fly-on-the-wall footage of him going about creating the Blueblack Hussar stage character and recording his new album. Reportedly among the scenes is footage of John Robb interviewing Ant for the cover feature of issue 2 of Vive Le Rock magazine

The film was initially released by GFM Films in the summer of 2012. Although it had previously been reported that it would be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was finally premiered on 25 June 2012 at the National Film Theatre as part of the London UK Film Festival, in a bid to seek a distributor. By early 2013, the film had been moved to Sunrise Pictures for release that Spring, and a trailer had been posted to Youtube.

Blueblack Hussar Records - other artists
In addition to releasing his own records on his new Blueblack Hussar Records label, Ant intends to release records on the label by other acts whom he has been mentoring. Primary among these has been Georgina Baillee's band, Georgie Girl And Her Poussez Posse, who played numerous support concerts for Ant during 2011-2012 and by the end of that period were at work on an album for the label. Although Baillee disbanded her Posse in January 2013, she and Posse guitarist Corrine Aze "Hazel" Corleone are currently working on new material for the label. Also, the label is due to release a track-by-track cover album of Ant's Kings Of The Wild Frontier by Midlands-based electropop artist Johnny Normal. Former Ant support acts Twinkle Twinkle (the band of then-Ant backing vocalist Georgina "Twinkle" Leahy), Dressing For Pleasure and Krakatoa were all previously associated with the label.

Fashion label
On 1 April 2011, in an interview with Oliver Franklin for GQ Online, Ant revealed his collaboration with 18th century inspired British fashion designer Rob Lucas saying "I'm bringing out my own fashion line next year. I'm in business with a guy called Rob Lucas at Pimpernel in Oxford. It's called Blueblack Hussar." On 5 May 2011 some of the label's logo was revealed in an interview in the Yorkshire Evening Post while promoting the northern leg of his tour. “Adam is also designing a menswear collection with his friend, Rob Lucas," revealed interviewer Duncan Seaman. "The logo is apt: 'An 18th century brain in a 21st century head'. It's borrowed from a line in his song 'Room at the Top'".

On the 6th September 2011, the fashion journalist Amelia Gregory interviewed Lucas about the label at the Launch of Mich Dulce's Spring/Summer collection preview. In this interview Lucas revealed that hats for Blueblack Hussar will be produced by Mich Dulce

In advance of the label's launch, designs by Lucas have already been featured and worn by Ant in the UK printed edition of OK Magazine and photographed by Nadav Kander for the May 2012 printed edition of Esquire Magazine. In an interview with Ana Gribova on 2 May 2012 for The Colchester Circle, Ant stated "it’s called Blueblack Hussar at Pimpernel. I’m in partnership with a guy called Rob Lucas, who does military fashion. The stuff that I’ve been wearing onstage is actually stuff that I designed with him. We’re hoping to bring out a unisex line next year [2013]. A lot of women actually ask about the clothes, and I think they would be attracted to a unisex range. That would be quite something. We are going to take our time but it’s going to be very good quality stuff." Ant again mentioned the label and Lucas in an interview at Bestival in September 2012 where he spoke briefly of a catwalk show for the label.

Demos project
In the same April 2010 NME interview as the announcement of his new album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter, 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."

Merge Proposal
The article that discusses Ant's musical career appears to include much duplicated content. Ant is primarily known as a musical artist and having a separate article around that results in this duplication. An added complication is that the referencing of the article heavily relies on the primary source material of adam-ant.net, a semi-official website with mostly news and lists of tour dates. Karst (talk) 13:18, 26 September 2023 (UTC)


 * If you want to merge it, feel free. Otherwise, that tag is going to sit on this article for a long time. Or remove some information from this article to trim the musical career section if the main article goes into the details. oncamera  (talk page) 16:55, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I am in favor of the merge, if only because that "career" article is an unnecessary duplicate that shouldn't exist in the first place. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:10, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Done.Karst (talk) 20:20, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:Romanichal people
The article says: "He is of partial Romani descent; his maternal grandfather, Walter Albany Smith, was Romanichal and I have no reason to doubt that. Does this mean Goddard is himself a Romanicha person? i.e. all people with one Romani grandparent are also Romani? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC)