68 Guns (Janice Long Session)
Released “The Alarm Radio Sessions” CD in 2008
Songs
‘Sixty Eight Guns (session)’ [??:??] (MacDonald/Peters), The Alarm
‘Sixty Eight Guns (session)’ [??:??] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: ? Notes:BBC Kid Jensen Session, March 9th 1983Mike Peters Notes:The song was inspired by a book I’d read about Glasgow street gangs, in the year 1968. 1 always thought that was an important year for young people, it was the first time they really said ‘no.’ It was just when the hippie thing was ending, when peace and love was [read more]
Gigs
Gig: 4/12/2004, The Alarm, NASHVILLE, TN ORANGE PEEL (Psychedelic Furs Support)
4/12/2004: The Alarm, NASHVILLE, TN ORANGE PEEL (Psychedelic Furs Support) Summary Press Release Set List Band Comments Fan Comments
Review: The Alarm: Alarm 2000 1981-1983 Preview Review
Essentially, this record started out life as a CD version of �The Alarm� E.P., which has never been released. Instead, it has become something much more. This CD stands as an historical record, chronicling the sonic rise of a nearly anonymous Wales-based punk band into a chart-topping success story. The album starts out, appropriately enough, with a-side and b-side from The Alarm�s first independent 1981 single Unsafe Building b/w Up [read more]