Adam Ant review – still a king of the wild frontier

O2 Academy Brixton, LondonAnt might no longer be the lithe, dandy highwayman of his early years, but he continues to strikes a defiant pop-star poseThere have been few more curious bands than Adam and the Ants. In the early 1980s, they married the jittery angst and experimentation of post-punk with the flamboyance of the glam-influenced new romantics – and became the biggest pop band in Britain.Their apotheosis was their No 1 album, Kings of the Wild Frontier (1981), which quixotic singer...

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