Wed 8/28 @ 8PM
When Adam Ant played at the old Cleveland Agora on East 24th Street back in 1982, the front of the stage was lined with screaming underaged girls, sighing over the handsome, pirate-costumed British pop star, while the moms and dads that drove them to the show clustered in the back.
Those hyper teenyboppers are now hovering on he edge of 50, and they’ll be able to drive themselves to the new Agora to see Adam and his current group, the Good, the Mad & the Lovely Posse.
They’ve undoubtedly been through a lot since Adam was topping the charts — they may have even just dropped kids offf at college — but so has he.
The hits dried up by the mid ’80s — all, including his biggest U.S. hit “Goody Two-Shoes,” came between 1980 and 1983. He vanished from the music scene for over a decade. And when he returned in the mid ’90s, he was plagued by incidents of erratic behavior eventually revealed to be a result of his long-time battle with bipolar disease.
But he’s got a new album titled Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter. (Sounds like he should be marrying Fiona Apple, who has even even stronger propensity for wordy album titles).He still dresses up in the costumes that once linked him to that subset of new wave known as the New Romantic movement. And he’ll undoubtedly packed his set list with tunes like “Stand and Deliver,” Friend or Foe,” and “Desperate But Not Serious,” with their heavy, insistent, and irresistible beats. Lots of memories will be relived at the Agora.
Tickets are $29.50.
Cleveland, OH 44103