Article: The Alarm

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The persistent rumours were true, after all: the Alarm’s frontman, Mike Peters, source of much of their passionate, crusading musical style, is no longer a member of the band. The news was confirmed to us just before we went to press by Alarm guitarist Dave Sharp, who was taking time out from preparing for gigs to launch his excellent new solo album, “Hard Travellin’ “. “Mike has definitely left the [read more]

Day Seventeen: Tuesday 14 June 2005 James Stevenson arrives back with his son Oscar in tow. We decide to tackle the guitars on ‘Cease And Desist’. Out comes the cherry red 12 string Gibson 335. This is the guitar that gave such a distinctive sound to ’45 R.P.M.’. The intro riff sounds great even though it takes an age for James to get used to the correct way of playing [read more]