The auction winner will also be delivered a handwritten note from both Dulce and Ant, a signed poster, and a plectrum used by Ant at the 100 Club venue in London. Want to join the auction? Click here.

Ant got chattier as the evening went on. During the encore, he fondly recalled the time he met and got the autograph of his idol, Marc Bolan, “in a record store in Oxford Street”.

Adam Ant - real name Stuart Goddard - was an authentic veteran of the late 1970s punk scene - and his band were considered controversial even by the frayed standards of that turbulent time. The singer ...