Review: Review Of The Alarm MMVI At Birmingham Academy

3/29/1983: The Alarm, Hammersmith Palais, London Summary Opening For U2 on the “War” tour. Mike Peters and Stuart Adamson of Big County join U2 onstage for “Knocking On Heaven’s Door”Press Release Set List Band Comments Fan Comments

POPPYFIELDS RAISE THE ALARM Welsh rockers The Alarm have pulled off an amazing chart comeback by entering the top 40 for the first time since 1990 with their new single ’45RPM’. However, The Alarm, who can lay claim to 14 Top 50 singles, and album sales of over 5 million worldwide, took the unusual step of releasing their new hit single as The Poppyfields. Many might have considered the move [read more]

INTERVIEW: Before Kloten Festival, May 1984 Notes: A well meaning, but hard to understand German speaking Swiss girl interviewed the band. Her questions are denoted with ‘I:’. I: "I just told People, umm, That you are using mostly acoustic guitars, and ah, not any synthesizers, and this is very rare nowadays, and why do you use no synthesizers?" Mike: "Well we just tend to think of ourselves as a band [read more]