Gig: 11/1/1985, The Alarm, JB’s Theatre, Albany, NY

‘River Still To Cross (Demo)’ [4:27] (Dave Sharp), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: It’s not the thousand years of wanton waste Nor the desert sun that’s burning Or a fire like no other That’s gonna stop this world a-turning Not the ministers with wisdom Or the Unions with their might Oh they’ll still be fighting Over who was wrong or right Nor the innocents amongst us Would be robbed of life [read more]

Day Fifteen: Friday 10 June 2005 James Stevenson comes in to record his guitars on ‘Without A Fight’. We are starting to notice that we have a few tuning issues. This is only to be expected with so many guitars and especially with a lot of vintage instruments. This is the most time consuming part of recording. James has to constantly tune his guitars before every take / drop in. [read more]

Feb 10 2004 IT MIGHT be more than a decade since he scored his last top 10 hit, but if his loyal fan base has anything to do with it Mike Peters will be on Top of the Pops before the month is out. The former frontman of the seminal Welsh rock band The Alarm has a new single out this week. Called 45 RPM, it’s a razor-sharp, punk pop [read more]