Review: Review: Coloursound EP

Leeds Music Scene “In its way, The Poppy Fields is a triumph” Manchester Online : “…Whatever reservations you may have about them are often blown away by their ability to, erm, kick ass.” Get Ready To Rock “Good to see another band back on form” BBC Wales “The Alarm are back on form, harking back to their golden days yet feeling fresher than ever” Designer Magazine “The Alarm may have [read more]

Who would have thought it? Briefly famous blow-dried passion punks from the 1980’s commemorated in a massive nine CD box set! What’s more, front man Mike Peters has promised to record a personally dedicated acoustic version of each purchasers fave Alarm track to be burned on to a special CD for everyone buying this mail order-only monument to the original Cool Cymru rockers. Since the demise of the band’s original [read more]

Still on a roll from a year of Bob Dylan supports, The Alarm make up for lost time this side of the Atlantic with a Tony Visconti-produced concept LP that bemoans the fate of their ailing Welsh homeland. Simultaneously released with Welsh language vocals as Change, this is a stadium-sized pub-rock set that lacks the gusto and rampant commerciality of their 68 Guns secondhand The Clash without ever really living [read more]