Gig: 3/21/1991, The Alarm, Leicester Polytechnic

‘Pastures Of Plenty’ [2:40] (Woodie Guthrie), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: It`s a mighty hard road that my Poor hands have hold As I travel along on this hard dusty road Out of your dustbowls and this` where we roam Your deserts was hard and your Mountains was cold The edge of your city You`ll see us and then We come with the dust and we Blow with the wind Green [read more]

‘Up Downtown (itpf bond)’ [??:??] (Mike Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I was running with the backhanders From the mona to the mermaiders From the east end to the west paraders Through the car park and up the stairs You can forget all your troubles, forget all of your cares I’m going up downtown I met the twist in there one new years eve [In the nineteen seventies] I said [read more]

IRS records calls a meeting, and gets the band to reform. Steve Tannett from IRS selects the best songs from both parties demos. Onlu Macdonald/Peters songs are chosen: ‘Newtown Jericho’, “Only Love Can Set Me Free”,”Lead Me Through The Darkness”.