Gig: 10/23/1989, The Alarm, Shaw Theatre, London

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]

‘Third Light’ [3:25] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Eddie MacDonaldLyrics: Your head on my shoulder Two months you�ve been a soldier I feel so sick inside Two months you�d have been alive So no one here knows your surname No one knows from where you came The Red Cross takes you to your grave For which your government kindly pays WHITE CROSS upon the hillside There lies that unknown soldier No one [read more]

‘Thoughts Of A Young Man’ [2:50] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I am a young man of modest income I hope this will get through There’s a lot of people here Who would like to have the chance of writing this letter to you. I share a dream and I pray that it will come true One day, we will see a better land. Until that day We will watch [read more]