Adam & The Ants - Send A Letter To Jordan.

Jordan first saw the Antz at their residency at the Man In The Moon pub in Kings Cross supporting X Ray Spex.  Adam was dressed in a rapist mask and physically attacked the audience or rather what w as left of them !

"Adam used to send me love letters in the early days. I've still got them somewhere. He invited me down to a gig....everything went wrong, but in Adam I saw something very special. Anyway I got involved in the band - I nurtured and pushed them. I was a manager and yet more than a manager. I finished with Adam for a while when he insisted on signing to Decca. I thought it was a wrong move and I was proved right."

On Adam Ant "He's just an incredibly sexual person who's mad about German girls." ( NME 15/4/78)  Which probably explains why Jordan "scratched the word "fuck " into his back with her nails, the scars prevented him from going topless." 
Simon Price sleeve notes Radio 1 Sessions CD

"We had a manager called Jordan..anybody that could get you a gig was qualified as a manager in those days. Anybody that could get a poster on the street was a manager in those days."
Adam Ant interview June 96.

Jordan was a bit more though. Style manipulator, she forced new boy John Beckett to have his hair cut, change his clothes and renamed him Johnny Bivouac. Jordan wanted the band to..."look good and shocking...not really shocking but a bit different.. I didn't mind...it was all fun" 
Johnny Bivouac interview Zerox Antz Fanzine. 

 Click to hear clip of 'Lou' 

She also sang Lou ( otherwise known as  New York Coke Joke) .
"Actually, she doesn't sing it, she bawls and bellows with an incredible throat-tearing screech and a total disregard for tune." Chris Brazier Live Marquee review 1978. 

"Adam's a handsome boy and he soaks up ideas like a sponge. Jordan is managing them which is convenient...She takes to the stage for one song about Andy Warhol. A stage is too small for her." Nils Stevenson (Vacant)

Its a  bit of a shock to the system with the lyrics howled over a dirge like riff . It appears on the John Peel  Antz sessions cd.  "Suddenly Jordan came on stage herself for one number: painted face, hair standing about one foot up in the air, and began to shriek; I thought , get that girl into the studio, and let her shriek to the nation!'" John Walters 'In Session Tonight' "I felt out of my depth the moment I walked in there...to sing a song like that, which is meant to be sung out of control, in a controlled atmosphere, was very difficult for me...to have have to do it tow or three times...was very hard on the voice, and the emotions." 
Jordan 'In Session tonight'

"The song I sang on stage with the Ants was 'Lou', it was great doing it, but then there was absolutely no pressure - doing it for a whole 40 minutes is a different matter entirely."

So why didn't she sing more or front a band ? "To start a band would have been so obvious. So bland. Very early on Malcolm McClaren advised me to project and promote my own image and that is exactly what I have done"