Photo: The Alarm,10/1/1985

‘Devolution Working Man Blues (electric demo)’ [3:47] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I don�t crawl No I don�t race I got no-one To call my own And all these streets That I spit upon There’s no money in my pocket No soles on my shoes I ain’t got no religion But the workingman�s blues Got the workin’ man blues Got the workingman blues Devolution workingman blues I won’t dance A [read more]

Day Ten: Saturday 4th June 2005 As it is a Saturday and we are all going places for the weekend. We decide to have a go at recording ‘I Never Left I Only Went Away’. We performed the song live for the first time at Gathering 13 with Billy Duffy playing guitar with us. The song had worked out really well in the concert environment and had been included on [read more]

Day Seventeen: Tuesday 14 June 2005 James Stevenson arrives back with his son Oscar in tow. We decide to tackle the guitars on ‘Cease And Desist’. Out comes the cherry red 12 string Gibson 335. This is the guitar that gave such a distinctive sound to ’45 R.P.M.’. The intro riff sounds great even though it takes an age for James to get used to the correct way of playing [read more]