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Oct 21st 2005
PUSSYCAT DOLLS
CARTY REMIX
Carty News
- Former UK chart-topping single Don't Cha by the Pussycat
Dolls (PCD) has been remixed for inclusion on the
WTF Volume 2 CD. The ten minute
Chopper Remix features the rare UK club hit On Ya Way by
Helicopter from the early 1990's, a bass line lifted from 80's house act
Seduction, and Richard Burton's vocal from a 2005 remix of Jeff
Wayne's Eve Of The War. Busta Rhyme's rap has
been removed for this remix.
Ant Lady's sleeve (above) features a picture
of the PCD which looks as though the ginger-haired member has part of her
head missing! There's also a still from the new War Of The Worlds
movie, and my car has been converted into a helicopter. Very tasty...as is
the sleeve. ;-)
The remix can be downloaded by clicking on the
sleeve for the link to antfan.com.
Oct 16th 2005
22nd NO RESPONSE
NOW AVAILABLE
The new issue out now
ALF News
- The Ant Liberation Front have announced that the latest (and 22nd)
issue of the No Response fanzine is now up available. The
highlight is expected to be their four page interview with Kevin Mooney
(featured on the cover with Jordan). The full interview is expected
on their site after the disco weekend.
Copies have been mailed out with the disco tickets
and will be available at the ALF Disco venue. For more info, check
out their
news page.
Oct 16th 2005
MARCO TALKS OF
PANZER TRACK
ON ANT WEBLOG
Ant Lady's cover for the Carty/Marco collaboration
Marco News
- Marco Pirroni has spoken out about his involvement in the
Panzer Mädchen track for the
first time on the new Ant Weblog,
Music For A
Future Age. Marco tells how he started playing the riff to Deutscher
Girls on one of Adam's guitars and how he sent it to me to see
what I could do with it.
Much passing of demos back and forth resulted in
Mix I being born (with Mix II and Mix III) following after
Marco had "left the building". In the weblog, Marco tells Steve Ant
about my truly awful bass line that I used in the track's infancy, and how he
roped in Chris Constantinou to lay down a proper bass.
He also commented on how he intended it to be the
first of many Ant tracks (which he never played live on) to do with me, and that
he's waiting for me to suggest a track. I'd better get thinking then!!
Read Marco's full comments and download the track by
going here.
Oct 16th 2005
INSECT NATIØN
ANT BOOK CONTEST CLOSED
Ant News - The "on topic" Ant forum
Insect Natiøn has now closed its first ever contest, which
called upon Ant fans everywhere to come up with their own designs for the
cover of Adam Ant's official autobiography, "Stand
And Deliver", which is due for release in Autumn 2006.
The contest generated 21 entries from all corners of
the globe with a very high standard of workmanship. It's now up to the
fans to vote for their favorite entry. The voting poll will be closed on
Friday October 21st with the winner will being announced on Saturday October
22nd. The prize is a framed 20x30 cm (8"x12") photoprint of the image
below:
I will be asking
Marco Pirroni to sign the picture AND the winning entry when I
interview him during the weekend of the
Ant Lib Disco, but obviously I cannot confirm this until he says
yes.
Oct 9th 2005
LAVENDER PILL MOB
REMIX EXCLUSIVE
ON ANT WEBLOG
Ant Lady's cover for the 3 LPM remixes
Carty News
- A Carty remix of a track from the new Lavender Pill Mob album,
Mikes Bikes is currently exclusively
available on the brand new Ant Weblog,
Music For A
Future Age. The Alpha Remix is one of three remixes of It
Dosn't Matter produced by Carty for band member Gary Asquith.
The weblog was recently created by Ant fan Steve
Ant will feature mp3's with a shelf life of one week. The blog also
features exclusive comments from Marco Pirroni and it is hoped that he
will soon be commenting on his role in one of the tracks he collaborated with
Carty last year, Panzer Mädchen.
The other member of the Lavender Pill Mob, Kevin
Mooney, was recently interviewed by ALF and it is believed that the
interview will appear in the soon to be released edition of the No
Response fanzine.
It is not known at this stage if all three remixes
will be publicly available, so get the Alpha remix while you can at
Music For A
Future Age.
Oct 9th 2005
NEW CARTY DBNS
REMIX
Ant Lady's cover for the new remix
Carty News
- The seventh and final Ant remix for
Carty Mixes Volume 8 has been
completed. Influenced by the Crazy Ant's "Yabba Ding Ding" from
Carty Mixes Volume 7, we're now
treated to the Delirious remix of "Desperate But Not Serious".
The CD's final mix was going to be a remix of
Lady but that will probably appear on Volume 9 when it's completed.
Desperate But Not Serious (Delirius Remix) will shortly be available for
download via this site as will the new CD cover.
Volume 8's cover
Oct 6th 2005
2nd OFFICIAL
ANT SITE?
Ant News - The
man responsible for letting down so many Ant fans by running the official Adam
Ant Fan Club (Ant News Now) has posted on the
Ant Rap forum that he is
to start a new Ant website.
Bryan Stanton said in his post that Adam
is now "fully recovered and spending some time living outside London." He
added that he had no "concrete plans for a musical comeback" but not to "rule
it out in the future."
He plans to launch the new "free membership" site in April 2006.
It will include a free e-mail newsletter every three months and each newsletter
will have at least one free prize competition. He added that there would be "no
land mail with this new venture", which let him down so badly in the past.
When questioned about his comment about Adam's
current health, he replied that Adam had been "taking medicine since his last
relapse and although you can't expect a full recovery without the medicine, Adam
should suffer no relapses if he continues with the treatment." He
continued, "the unfortunate aspect with mental illness is that you can't stop
with the treatment, even in years to come, if you feel 100% and no longer feel
you need the medicine".
Most fans didn't recognise Bryan's name and when
asked, he responded that he used to run "Adam's fan club, Ant News Today,
which went very wrong for a number of reasons, many of which, were my own fault."
He added that he has realised where he went wrong, which is why he is working on
a "new free website, which will cost absolutely nothing and will feature a
number of free giveaways".
The official Adam website is recognised as
adam-ant.net which made
Bryan's comment that "Adam will contribute when he is able", a little
dubious. However, the new site will be launched with a free limited (at
least 100) edition t-shirt.
He claimed that the site is going to be a "give
back from the old Ant News Today organisation" and that it is not going to
be a competition to the current official one, "only an alternative".
Visitors to the forum are treating the announcement
with mixed views, but it seems the only way to know what is going to happen is
to wait until April 2006. We'll be watching.
Oct 6th 2005
'IT DOESN'T MATTER'
CARTY REMIXES
Carty News -
After being impressed with the track that follows Black Pirates on
the Lavender Pill Mob's Mikes Bikes CD,
it has now been treated to three Carty remixes. Mob member Gary
Asquith was very keen to hear the remix, so an additional two were created
and mailed to his home in the South of France this week.
The main remix is the Alpha Remix and
features newly programmed funky drums, a new bass line and added keyboards.
The other two mixes (the Beta and Gamma remixes)
have a more clubby feel. One being very dancey whilst the other is very
ambient in nature. (The track has no connection whatsoever to the
Ant track of the same name.)
It is not known at this stage whether the remixes
will be available to download as I'm waiting to see what Gary has to say about
them. He also requested a CD of some of my best Ant remixes, which
was a sod to compile! Ten tracks from the later volumes were sent,
although I forgot to include the two tracks I did with Marco last year!
Ah well!
Oct 6th 2005
NEW INSECT NATIØN
MAILING LIST
Ant News - A
brand new email based mailing list has been created to run alongside the
INSECT
NATIØN forum. Described by forum moderator Ant Lady as its "little
brother", she posted that "it became clear that there's a vast amount of
Antfans that hardly visit the forums/websites/bulletin boards but that still
would like to stay updated about anything Ant via email."
"There are several Ant mailing lists around already, but the conversation on
those lists often goes off topic."
"So, for the same reasons we created this forum, we now also created an
ON-topic mailing list:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/insectnation/" (click to visit and
join)
It's a Yahoo! group, which means you will need a Yahoo ID to sign
up. After joining the list you can choose to get the messages via email (with
the option of getting a daily digest) or to read them on the group's page.
Any Ant news posted on the Insect Natiøn forum will be cross-posted to the new
mailing list (and vice versa).
To subscribe, just enter your email address
into the yellow box in the left hand column of this page.
Oct 6th 2005
ALF SITE BACK
ONLINE
Ant News - After
an absence of almost 18 months, the Ant Liberation Front (ALF) are back
online with a new look site. The new "UK tabloid-esque" look has
been in the planning stages for most of this time and I was fortunate enough to
get a sneak preview in July 2004 at Madam Stan's home.
The ALF site used to be one of two main Ant sites
which featured all the latest Ant news, but had not been updated since May
25th 2004. Now, to coincide with the forthcoming disco, the site has
started to slowly get back to life with more pages to be added as time goes by.
To see the new look site, go to:
http://www.adamandtheants.org/
Oct 6th 2005
NEW CARTY
'ANT' INTERVIEW DUE
Ant News - Next
month will see the online publication of yet another Carty interview.
Following on from interviews with Marco Pirroni,
Andi Vaughan, Mark Alleyne
and Freek Kinkelaar, an new interview has
been planned. It will take place in London during the
2005 Ant Disco Weekend with a high profile
Ant person and will be transcribed for all to read on this site upon my return
from the UK.
More details will be announced nearer the time.
Oct 6th 2005
BRAND NEW ANT
WEBLOG
Ant News - Time
served Ant fan Steve Ant has started the web's first ever Ant related
weblog which is called Music For A Future Age. He refers
to the site as an mp3 blog and adds that he will, "rotate the mp3's a
few each week, so grab them fast!"
"I will also try and keep them to rare live versions or remixes, demos, etc,
rather than the ones readily available on CD (so you won't see Goody Two Shoes
here!). The odd official track will appear now and then, but with the intent on
making you GO BUY THE CD! A link will be given where available for you to do so."
Marco Pirroni has given Steve the ok to add
mp3's so we wait in vain to see what gems will appear each week. The blog
will also include odd bits of Ant news and links to Ant sites. Already we
have been treated to some exclusive news from Marco about the Ants' live
performances of Plastic Surgery, with the promise of some mp3's to
follow, plus a link to download the BBC Radio Scotland interview with
Marco broadcast on October 3rd (donated to the weblog by yours truly).
To visit the blog, just click on
http://musicforafutureage.blogspot.com/
To have immediate updates direct to your desktop,
here's the RSS feed:
 (What is RSS?)
Sep 26th 2005
INSECT NATIØN
ART CONTEST ANNOUNCED
Ant News - The "on topic" Ant forum
Insect Natiøn has announced its first ever contest, which
neatly ties in with the announcement of Adam Ant's official autobiography, "Stand
And Deliver", which is due for release in Autumn 2006.
The contest calls upon Ant fans everywhere to come
up with their own designs for the cover of the book. The forum's
moderators are asking what do people think the book's cover will look like and
what they think it should look like.
So what's the prize? Well, there will be just one
winner, and one prize, which will be a 20x30 cm (8"x12") photoprint of the image
below:
The prize is a large photoprint of this...hopefully
signed (TBC)
The closing date for the contest is Friday Oct
14, 2005, after which a poll will be set up on the
Insect
Natiøn forum for voting, which ends on Friday October 21, 2005. The lucky
winner will be announced on Saturday Oct 22nd. Hopefully the prize will be
framed too, and signed by someone famous and Ant-y!
If you fancy entering here are a few guidelines for you:
- Your entries will have to be in digital
format (pref. jpg or gif).
- Keep the file size below 250kb.
- The minimum size is 200x300 pixels and
the max is 500x750 pixels.
- Please use an approximate 2:3
size ratio (postcard).
To enter your Adam Ant autobiography book cover
design, simply post your image link on the
INSECT NATIØN forum, or email it to
Ant Lady.
All entries will be posted in a no-reply thread on the forum for all to see.
For further details, visit the
Insect Natiøn forum, or join their brand new
Insect Natiøn mailing list by clicking below.
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