Event: 3/8/1985, The Alarm, “ORS ’85” – BBC2 TV, UK

Description: Credits:Photo Provided by Shaun Finnie

‘Scarlet’ [4:17] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I Dream in red Of the things That this world could be And is not I Walk in the glow Of a thousand candles Burning, burning slow Sunrise Sunset Daylight Daybreak Watching Waiting Hoping Asking Begging Pleading Shouting Scarlet Rage Scarlet Rage Scarlet Rage Scarlet Rage Scarlet Blood On the page Of a thousand words I’ve written Can’t express I Walk in the [read more]

The Limit club is packed to the rafters with over-aged and under-aged punks, hippies and students whose enthusiasm is seemingly unbounded. As the evening progresses the sick, smoky atmosphere gets denser and condensation begins to run down the walls and drip off the roof. The Alarm bounce into view and throw themselves into their set with a burning passion, to an instantly wild response from the crowd. Their stance is [read more]