Any cynicism we might experience doing this thing we laughably call a job is brushed aside when you get an email about your childhood hero Adam Ant. Which we just did. There’s a new collection of photographs spanning his entire career, opening at Proud Camden. And he’s playing an intimate (and surprisingly affordable) charity gig to launch it. Yes, you’re right. That is really exciting.

Here’s the copied and pasted details: 

Proud Camden will play host to an exclusive performance from Adam Ant on Tuesday 6th March. This personal performance celebrates the launch of Adam Ant: Dandy in the Underworld; a collection of iconic portraits of the Post Punk star that span his extraordinary, eccentric and eclectic career. 100% of ticket prices will be donated to Adam Ant’s chosen charity, DEBRA.

  Adam Ant will be taking to Proud Camden’s famous Main Gallery stage to play an intimate music set, which opens to the public from 8.30pm onwards following Proud Galleries’ VIP private view of the exhibition.  

Following the success of his 2011 15-date UK tour, ‘The Good, The Mad and The Lovely’ - his first in 15 years - and before the release of his eagerly anticipated 2012 album ‘Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter’, this exclusive performance will see the New Wave/Post Punk musician performing a mix of hit anthems, old and new.  

Tickets to the public event will be available for £15, from the Proud website, with 100% of ticket prices donated by Adam Ant to DEBRA, a national charity working on behalf of individuals and families affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).

Tickets are £15, available from http://proudcamden.viewtickets.co.uk

Adam Ant: Dandy in the Underworld is at Proud Camden, and runs from March 7 till April 29, 2012

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