Photo: The Alarm,12/1/1987

‘New South Wales, A (radio edit)’ [3:18] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time In the Rhondda tonight The Davey lamps that shone so brightly There’s no more need for their light As the last piece of coal is cut From the belly of the black seamed hole A man walks home alone Past a church full of mounting souls Throughout his lifetime he [read more]

‘Moments In Time’ [5:42] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I was born of nineteen fifty nine That’ll be the day rock’n’roll died Far away on a dark and stormy night Brought into the new decade The sixties and her pearly gates A hard rain fell and the times forever changed In the back of a car with the wind in our hair Speeding down the road going anywhere Was it [read more]

People’s Band is the usual grudging accolade afforded to those who have a hard time of it at the hands of the critics. With their essentially optimistic bent, heightened melodramatics and general eagerness to please, The Alarm have been considered a bit wet behind the ears right from the word go. But, a decade on, they’re still in there fighting, even edging up the world rankings, and Raw is a [read more]