Gig: 4/9/1986, The Alarm, Stockton, CA Cancelled due to illness

Day Fifty Three : Wednesday 27th July 2005 Today followed a similar pattern as yesterday. Vocal comp on ‘Something’s Got To Give’, then some last guitar overdubs and then onto the mix. The main thing to worry about is about having backing vocals or not. ‘B.V.’s’ as they are known, can make a track sound soft and as this is a hard beast we decided to leave it alone. The [read more]

‘Permanence In Change’ [4:04] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Daylight breaks on the streets of my life Where no sun shines there bums refusal to die In the shadows of heartache my dreams come alive I’ve been searching for love to give meaning to life Oh no, you make me feel real Oh no, I’ve got you, you’ve got me And that’s all we need A reason to believe Tonight [read more]

‘Unsafe Building (Live KBFH)’ [3:44] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: “Thank you very much This song is a song we put all our money into making when we were living in Rhyl, North Wales & we didn’t have anything much going for us, so we made a single & this is it. This is called Declare Yourself Unsafe” Declare yourself an unsafe building Suffer the indignation of your world To [read more]