Event: 2/13/1983, The Alarm, Recorded Kid Jenson session for BBC Radio 1

While Dave and Nigel stayed at Ezee Hire, Eddie and Mike at The Waterfront in London. They recorded many demos using a drum machine and synthesizer, plus guitars. From thesee demos the future “Eye” songs .’Newtown Jericho’, “Only Love Can Set Me Free”, and the Raw song “Lead Me Through The Darkness”. Eddie Macdonald has described this time his “happiest time in The Alarm’.

5/3/1986: The Alarm, S.U.N.Y. in Albany, NY Summary Press Release Set List Part of “Stairway To Heaven” and a complete “Pinball Wizard” are played as intros to “The Stand”, which is later interrupted by a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” guitar interlude.Band Comments Fan Comments

CHART COMMENTARY From UK.Launch.Yahoo.com by JAMES MASTERTON The Stands break into the Top 30 for the first time at Number 25 following two smaller hits in 2003, but the big story of the lower end of the chart arrives at Number 28. Step forward The Poppyfields who are an old name with a new name so to speak. The group are best known as 80s welsh rockers The Alarm who, [read more]