Gig: 9/15/1983, The Alarm, Tut’s, Chicago, IL

Day Four: Thursday 25 May 2005 Another situation which has prompted the recording of this album is the fact that we have signed to EMI! While we were touring the ‘Poppy Fields’ album, representatives from EMI came to us to see and asked if we would be interested in making a new record for them and asked us if we had any new songs they could hear etc. We didn’t [read more]

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]

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