Gig: 6/10/1981, The Alarm, Victoria Hotel, Prestatyn

‘Chant Has Just Begun, The (Single version)’ [3:41] (Macdonald/Peters/Sharp), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Weialala leia Wallala leilala (Fighting) The chant has just begun The song must now be sung For the word must now be spoken The chant has just begun (Fighting, Fighting) Here we are in times of recession The cuts are like a stab in the back To the monetary sound the world goes round Unrest on every [read more]

3/26/2004 It was, pardon the pun, a rather alarming publicity stunt. But it worked. Mike Peters, founder of Welsh heart-on-sleeve rockers the Alarm, thought it’d be a hoot to release a new Alarm single under a different band name. Peters shipped “45 RPM,” a classic rocker in that band’s patented style, all chiming guitars and populist sing-along choruses, to British radio stations in a plain white wrapper, with the moniker [read more]

People’s Band is the usual grudging accolade afforded to those who have a hard time of it at the hands of the critics. With their essentially optimistic bent, heightened melodramatics and general eagerness to please, The Alarm have been considered a bit wet behind the ears right from the word go. But, a decade on, they’re still in there fighting, even edging up the world rankings, and Raw is a [read more]