Photo: The Alarm,9/1/1987

Day Fifty Three : Wednesday 27th July 2005 Today followed a similar pattern as yesterday. Vocal comp on ‘Something’s Got To Give’, then some last guitar overdubs and then onto the mix. The main thing to worry about is about having backing vocals or not. ‘B.V.’s’ as they are known, can make a track sound soft and as this is a hard beast we decided to leave it alone. The [read more]

‘Spirit Of 76 (single edit)’ [4:40] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: And my friend John, he went away He made some mistakes Spent some time in Walton jail And now when I see him we still talk But there’s no light shining in his eyes And Susie, she was seventeen And more beauty in this world I swear you’ll never see I was gonna be king And she was gonna [read more]

‘How the Mighty Fall (acoustic demo)’ [3:18] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Once you held your finger on the trigger But now the gun is pointing at your head Once you reigned supreme Over all that you could see But now you walk on the other side of the street How the mighty fall I’ve seen it all before Cause the harder they come The harder they fall How the [read more]