Gig: 10/28/2003, The Alarm, London, Scala

tHE nORMAL rULES dO nOT aPPLY Tracks The Normal Rules Do Not Apply New Home New Life Rain Down When You Can’t Have What Everybody Else Has How Long And How Much Longer? 45 RPM Everafter I Never Left I Only Went Away My Defenses The Unexplained

Day Forty One : Thursday 13th July 2005 The morning is spent getting the best out of the four vocal takes I recorded yesterday. At 1200 we observed the two minute silence honoring the memory of the victims of last weeks bomb attacks. Since the beginning of the session in Henley, I have been constantly pouring over the lyrics on my lap top. I have the lyric to each song [read more]

Strength single is released. Reaches #40 in the UK, #61 on the USA Hto 100 chart, #12 on the Mainstream rock chart. The Alarm finally havea bigger hit in the USA than in the UK.