Gig: 1/11/1990, The Alarm, Italian TV

‘Walk Forever By My Side’ [3:32] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Walk forever by my side Never lose sight of the day When we will run through all our weakness On through the fields Strewn with our broken dreams Walk forever by my side Stay forever in the light Never lose sight of the way For I alone can’t face the future I need your strength To help me make [read more]

b>45 RPM Review: Manchester Online http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ The Poppy Fields – 45 RPM (Snapper) Iain Hepburn *** THE debut single from what is claimed to be ‘youthful Chester four-piece punk wannabies The Poppy Fields’ wears its influences like a badly-stitched badge safety-pinned haphazardly to a torn denim jacket. Brief, bright and decidedly Sex Pistols-flavoured, on closer inspection it seems to be the work of The Alarm going under a pseudonym. It [read more]

For some strange, inexplicable reason, the Welsh have always done well in America. Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton, Tom Jones � they�ve all packed in the punters one way or another in this strange land, and now Mike Peters reckons it�s time for The Alarm to do the same Not that we�re continuously plagued by autograph hunters as we chat on our Saturday morning flight from Philadelphia to Boston, but there�s [read more]