4️⃣0️⃣ years ago today! #OTD 1986: Almost exactly 4 years on from announcing his split from the Ants, Adam Ant reunites with drummer Terry Lee Miall (then living down the road in Costa Mesa) for the Disneyland Summer Vacation Party TV special recorded 13/5/1986. Sex Pistol/fellow ex-pat... 1/🧵

Born #OTD 1962: Happy Birthday to Adam & the Ants (+ Wide Boy Awake, (Lo)Max, Lavender Pill Mob) bassist Kevin Mooney - forever the baby of the band at 64 years young today! 🥳 🆕 'Junk Funk' Wide Boy Awake compilation coming later this year! 📽️: Ants Invasion - Old Grey Whistle Test, filmed 15/1/81

🚨 LIVE ADAM ANT NEWS 🚨 ANOTHER USA date supporting Squeeze added for September - with bonus Haircut 100 🇺🇸 Full confirmed live list in comments 👇🏻🐜🎶

🎉 Happy 67th birthday to Man Called Marco - born #OnThisDay 27/4/1959! 🎂 We're very much looking forward to Marco's forthcoming memoir 'Your Money or Your Life'. In the meantime, here he is in all his leather-capped glory at the Montreux Pop Festival for Goody Two Shoes - filmed early May 1984.

#OTD 1995: It's a busy day as Adam Ant, Marco, Dave Barbarossa and the boys are in Los Angeles (this LA in April malarkey must be an Ant thing.?!) for the US leg of Wonderful tour 20/4/95. This morning Adam & Marco perform Wonderful, Gotta Be a Sin and Alien for KSCA Music Hall, tonight... 1/🧵

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's Grace!" #OTD 1984: Adam Ant and Grace Jones are making a movie...well not quite. They're in Hollywood for a new Honda scooter advert, and Entertainment Tonight's Dixie Whatley has the scoop - screened #OnThisDay 17/4/1984. 1/🧵

THIS WEEKEND - SEE YOU THERE

4️⃣5️⃣ years ago today! #OTD 1981: The Americ-Ants Invasion invades the West Coast as Adam & the Ants arrive in LA to perform 'Antmusic' for Dick Clark's American Bandstand 12/4/1981. The good Antpeople of California are there, however the nation won't be seeing the recording until 16th May 1981.

#OTD 1990: Adam Ant's flipping between the continents as he promotes Manners & Physique, his first LP release in five years and performing Room at the Top live on Late Night with David Letterman #OnThisDay 3/4/1990 at the NBC Studio, NYC. 1/🧵

💥 SEE ADAM ANT LIVE IN 2026! 🐜🎶 6️⃣ Dates announced so far in 🇬🇧🇺🇸 🆕 Darker Waves Fest in sunny California added TODAY! 👀 😎 Are YOU joining the live Ant fun? 🌊🌊 See link for latest! 👇✨ adamandtheants.org/adam-ant-new...

"In The Ghosts of Maida Vale, we hear rock and pop musicians and presenters, past and present, including Jarvis Cocker, Annie Nightingale, Squeeze, Beyoncé, John Peel, Adam Ant and The Beatles." ~ Tonight (28/3/2026) on Radio 4 #AntSpotting www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Want to know where/when to see Adam Ant live in concert in 2026? Check out our handy new Adam Ant gig guide over at Ant Lib Online - you know it makes sense! adamandtheants.org/adam-ant-new...

#OTD 1983: Recovering from his recent knee operation, Adam Ant is invited to perform a live rendition of the Supremes' 'Where Did Our Love Go' at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, California #OnThisDay 25/3/1983. Michael Jackson debuts the moonwalk and then things go wobbly for Adam, before... 1/🧵

🚨 LIVE ADAM ANT NEWS 🚨 Another 🇺🇸 Squeeze date revealed for Adam Ant support. Chicago IL tickets on sale 23rd April: www.ravinia.org/events/detai...

#OTD 1999: It's the dawn of a new millennium and retrospective TV clip shows are all the rage. Tonight it's the turn of Channel 4's Top Ten Eighties Romantics, featuring new interviews with Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni and Chris Merrick Hughes - screened #OnThisDay 13/3/1999. 1/🧵

#OTD 2017: Back in the UK following the US leg of the Kings of the Wild Frontier celebratory tour, Adam Ant is the live music guest of short-lived 'The Nightly Show' #OnThisDay 10/3/2017. Hosted by the week's guest presenter John Bishop, we see the band pay tribute to Tom "Tommy x" Edwards... 1/🧵

Another Ant landmark gone as the Edinburgh building formerly known as Clouds bites the dust 🏗️🚧😔 www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/iconic-...

maximumvolumemusic.com/one-thousand... Chris C + Rat Scabies 😎

www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2591595... #AntSpotting

Happy Birthday to übertalented Chris Merrick Hughes - Adam & the Ants drummer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and splendid chap - 7️⃣2️⃣ years young today! 🎂🥳 📽️: Here he is giving Marco a run for his money on an acoustic guitar for Prince Charming from the Prince Charming Revue Dec 1981! 🐜🎶

🚨 ANT NEWS 🚨 MARCO PIRRONI will be making a personal appearance in conversation at Rebellion Festival Blackpool on the Friday as part of the Literary Festival to promote his forthcoming memoir 'Your Money or Your Life'. The event is SOLD OUT but stay tuned for more PA's TBA throughout the year...

#OTD 1982: Pinch, punch, it's first of the month and Adam Ant is back in England to record the forthcoming single but first he's got a date with Australia's Molly Meldrum for Countdown #OnThisDay 1/3/1982. The pressure's on to maintain momentum on the previous year's success, and Adam's... 1/🧵

POP'S PRINCE CHARMING: THIS IS MY LIFE by ADAM ANT #OTD 1982: Rock & Pop Awards 1981: British tabloid Daily Mirror publishes a double page spread dedicated to Adam Ant's life so far - in his own words #OnThisDay 23/2/1982. 1/🧵

#OTD 1983: Calamity! Returning to Cleveland for the 19th gig of the 2nd leg of the US Friend or Foe tour, Adam Ant hobbles away from Ohio as he tears a knee cartilage on stage at the Cleveland Music Hall #OnThisDay 21/2/1983. 1/🧵

#OTD 1984: The Strip Tour '84 continues in Philadelphia PA tonight for over 4,000 AmericAnts, but 4,000 miles east ARD is screening Adam Ant's performance of his latest Billboard Hot 100 hit on 'Formel Eins' #OnThisDay 20/2/1984. Presented by Peter Illmann, the show is West Germany's only... 1/🧵

Adam Ant - From S&M to M&S...

🚨 🇺🇸 ADAM ANT LIVE US DATES NEWS 🇺🇸 🚨 Confirmed 2026 dates so far: Hollywood Bowl - supporting Squeeze, with The Beat on Sat 19th Sept. Bourbon and Beyond festival in Louisville Kentucky on Sat 26th Sept. Tickets /passes available now from event websites (links in comments) - yee haw! 🤠🐜🎶

#OTD 1995: "THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE CHARMING" Wonderful has limped in to the lower 30s of the UK singles chart, so Adam Ant's bolstered the promo campaign by bringing in Marco Pirroni for a chinwag with NME's Sylvia Patterson, published 11/2/1995. 1/🧵

Sir Marco of Pirroni talks about Adam & the Ants getting onto #TOTP with Miranda Sawyer at the British Library this evening (5/2/26)... 📽️ British Library

Ok timeline cleanser. Show me your teen celebrity crushes in gifs. I'm pretty old, so....it was Adam Ant. My mom made me put his poster in my closet so I guess she too thought he was unacceptably sexy

Poster for JUBILEE (1978) Written and directed by Derek Jarman - BOTD in 1942

🚨 LIVE ADAM ANT NEWS 🚨 TUESDAY 4th August in the Olympia, Winter Gardens, Blackpool ADAM ANT (playing a harder set of early classics plus all the hits) THE UNDERTONES ALTERED IMAGES Doors 6pm - 11pm curfew 🎫 GENERAL SALE: Monday 2nd February www.rebellionfestivals.com/ticket-info

Adam Ants gig at the Marquee reviewed by Stephen Lavers in Sounds 28th, January 1978.

#OTD 1984: Strip Tour '84 is on the road and an animated Adam Ant is on the 2nd of two nights in Atlanta 28/1/1984. He pops into WSB studios to hang out on The Dance Show with presenters Cal Dupri and Townsen Coleman. Even the usual old questions don't manage to temper Adam's new year enthusiasm.

#OTD 1978: Adam & the Ants conclude their Thursday residency at the Marquee in London's Soho 26/1/1978. Writer Nick Kent and photographer Denis O'Regan are in attendance, contributing to the NME (11/2/1978): "I've not seen such a turn-out of Chelsea has-beens for a rock band in years than... 1/🧵

Born #OTD 1958: Happy Birthday to the one and only Gorgeous GARY "Damp Squibs" TIBBS - actor and Adam & the Ants bassist who turns 68 years young today! 🎂🥳 📽️: Christian D'or from Ants In Japan (Filmed 8th October 1981) --- #AdamAnt #AdamAndTheAnts #Antmusic #GaryTibbs

Did you know there's loads coming up this year in Antland? No?!! Well check out our 2026 preview over on the new Ant Lib Ønline - link in comments! If reading stuff sounds like too much like hard work, we asked Chrome to give us a summary illustrated with a video of dubious quality...

#OTD 1981: The 'Year of the Ant' starts with a rather handy 'primer' introducing Adam & the Ants to the Record Mirror readership, published as latest single 'Antmusic' hits the N°2 position in the UK singles chart. "The reason I've used the warrior theme is because warriors are the peacocks. 1/🧵

ANTRANT: THE PRESSURES OF PRINCEDOM #OTD 1982: What a difference a year makes - an off-brand Adam Ant is on the cover of NME for a 4-page interview feature published 16/1/1982. Photos from Anton Corbijn show a somewhat stark, less glamourous side... 1/🧵

#OTD 1982 (again): Meanwhile back on the road, Adam & the Ants are in Newcastle, playing the 1st of two nights at the City Hall #OnThisDay 8/1/1982. "You could actually hear The Ants' music - and very good it was too..." reports Mark Dawson of local rag Sunday Sun. 1/🧵

"ANT RAP" #OTD 1982: Adam's back Ant yappin' at Mark Ellen for Britain's biggest teen music magazine Smash Hits, published 7/1/1982 as latest single 'Ant Rap' is stuck at the N°4 position in the UK singles chart. "It's a risk putting it out as a single. I could have just brought out... 1/🧵

MEET THE ANTS #OTD 1978: Adam & the Ants play the Roxy, Covent Garden 7/1/1978: "Everyone hated the Ants musically because they were in their early stage when the sound was a bit erratic and out of tune and the pace was frightening. 1/🧵

#OTD 1978: Adam and the Antz kick off 1978 with the first of a 4x weekly Thursday night residency at the Marquee Club, Wardour Street. Entry is 65p and veteran resident DJ Jerry Floyd spins da tunes 5/1/1978 Adam 📸 credit: Christian Cavallin

I only went to 4 gigs this year, but there were so many magical moments, seeing my music heroes from different eras of my life: Nine Inch Nails, Oasis (in Manchester); Adam Ant & Gary Numan. I feel so much gratitude for these amazing gigs ❤️🖤❤️ #oasis #nineinchnails #adamant #garynuman

Born #OTD 1956: Happy 70th Birthday Adam Ant drummer 1982-1985 turned Zildjian Company's marketing big cheese Bogdan 'Count' Wiczling! 🎂🥁🥳 ✨We wish you a 'yabba-dabba-ding-ding' of a day!✨ 📺: Dick Clark's Nitetime (1985)

"I remember him talking about Marco Pirroni as if he were the new guitar messiah he'd rescued from the undignified, melancholic Rema-Rema. Adam was the alchemist, and I was one of the sad, lonely abusers." ~ Gary Asquith #AntSpotting www.darkentries.be/interviews/a...

Bye Bye '25! - Hello 2026! 🐜🎶 Spanks to everyone who's enjoyed, commented and contributed to Ant Lib shenanigans this past year. Special spanks to Adam and the gang for #antmusic2025 A special Ant Lib round-up of reviews of this year's tour +video edit now on Ant Lib Ønline 👇🏻 AM4SP! x

"MY FACE IS MY FORTUNE" #OTD 1981: Following a whirlwind 12 months the 'Year of the Ant' ends with Adam's final interview feature courtesy of Australian Women's Weekly published #OnThisDay 30/12/1981. Adam talks to Jeremy Pascal about his family, image & body, and the genesis of the Ants: 1/🧵

#OTD 1981: Following a short Xmas break, the Prince Charming Revue is back on the road (or should that be beach?!) as Adam & the Ants arrive at the Brighton Centre for 3x nights of extravagance to end their phenomenal, record-breaking year #OnThisDay 28/12/1981. 📸: Vibe Nation

🎄 MERRY XMAS FROM 1981! 🧑‍🎄 #OTD 1981: A week into the Prince Charming Revue tour, Adam Ant nips to BBC TV Centre in Shepherd's Bush to be groped by girls (again) and talk to DJ Simon Bates about his year - screened just before the Queen's Speech #OnThisDay #Christmas Day 25/12/1981. 1/🧵