Photo: The Alarm,2/1/1988

‘Father To Son’ [4:04] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: (One, two, three, four) My father said “Son, now my life’s work is done There’s a future for you, there’s a job to be done Stop fighting the system ’cause the system won’t break Get your hair cut boy and learn from my mistakes” Now I said to my father “Father give me a break There’s a million more chances that [read more]

Day Forty Nine : Saturday 20th July 2005 We head off to the Leckie wedding at 9 o’clock in the morning to soundcheck before the wedding guests arrive. It has been a nice distraction for us doing the Rev it has given us a break from the intensity of recording. We do go back tot he studio for the afternoon and record some backing vocals for ‘This Is The Way’. [read more]

The Alarm have combed down their hair and finally plugged in their guitars. Martin Wroe turns up the volume and takes a long hard look at the Welsh wonders’ second album. Eight years ago, in a school in North Wales, two punked-up young boys discovered mutual inspiration in a band called The Clash and formed a punk combo named The Toilets. Those two lads, in the flush of youth, were [read more]