Gig: 12/5/1999, Mike Peters, The Brook, Southampton

I’m on merch duties at Leeds the Cockpit. I’ve been to more glamorous places it has to be said 🙂 The band have just hit the stage just as the monitor system decided to crash. This is a nightmare for the band as it becomes such a struggle for the band to hear themselves on stage as they have to rely on the ‘outfront’ sound. I think we’re all feeling [read more]

Wales Online: Mike Peters leads mountain top fundraiser

Mike Peters, former banner-waving, rabble-rousing scout leader of The Alarm, returns with an LP of rare Alarm songs re-recorded for the ’90s. Sounds like a nightmare. Except that stripped of some of The Alarm’s pomposity, the 10 tracks-which range back to the very start of the Rhyl quartet’s career-sound surprisingly human. Forget for a second the frightened, on-end haircuts and tassled jackets and the result is a likably strummy set, [read more]