Gig: 11/19/2003, Mike Peters, Newbury Comics, Boston (in-store)

‘New Wales, A’ [5:36] (Lyrics: Mike Peters Music: Macdonald/Peters), Mike PetersLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: A new wind’s blowing over the hill And down the mountainside Through the vales and valleys over land and sea and sky From the fairgrounds of the north to the southern city streets From the west still holding back the sea To the border towns in the east For now and forever more, from today and from [read more]

In support of its recently-released nine-CD box set, The Alarm 2000 Collection, the Alarm is launching a U.S. tour on Oct. 12 at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif. During The Alarm 2000 tour, fans who buy the box set, which was released on the band’s Web site, thealarm.com, on Aug. 29, will be able to have their favorite Alarm song dedicated to them at the concert they attend. [read more]

Mike Peters, former banner-waving, rabble-rousing scout leader of The Alarm, returns with an LP of rare Alarm songs re-recorded for the ’90s. Sounds like a nightmare. Except that stripped of some of The Alarm’s pomposity, the 10 tracks-which range back to the very start of the Rhyl quartet’s career-sound surprisingly human. Forget for a second the frightened, on-end haircuts and tassled jackets and the result is a likably strummy set, [read more]