Gig: 11/2/1985, The Alarm, Key Largo in West Islip, NY

Standards is your standard issue pre-Christmas “best of” compilation from The Alarm, a band that is far from standard issue. Here, all your favorites are lifted to the audio excellence of digital sound -“The Stand”, “Strength”, “Spirit Of ’76”, “Rescue Me”, “Marching On”, “Blaze Of Glory” – and the sound is great. This ia an excellent collection to own, especially if, like me, you have all of The Alarm’s earliest [read more]

Day Twenty Eight: Wednesday 29th June 2005 Martin Wilding records more of my guitar parts (Fender Telecaster plugged into a Vox A.C.10), on ‘Few And Far Between’ and ‘Raindown’. Just in case anyone is interested, the CD’s we have lying around in the studio are: Kaiser Chiefs – Employment Editors – Munich {Single] Bright Eyes – Digital Ash In A Digital Urn Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning [read more]

The Alarm – Guerilla Tactics In The UK – Ticket Information Throughout November 2008, The Alarm will undertake a UK residency tour billed as ‘Guerilla Tactics In The UK’. The Alarm will perform three separate shows in four major UK cities (Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and London), over three weeks. Beginning on Thursday 6th of November in Cardiff at The Point, the band will then head North on Friday 7th of [read more]