12/3/1985: The Alarm, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
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Event: 6/12/1983, The Alarm, ZZEW Dallas radio interview
6/12/1983: The Alarm, ZZEW Dallas radio interview Summary This interview was a dual appearance with Bono of U2 and the Mike Peters portion is featured on the MPO website. This interview is a true collector’s item because Mike Peters premiered a then-unreleased version of “Blaze of Glory” (it later turned up as a b-side for “Absolute Reality”) and Bono played a tape of one of U2’s earliest demos “The Fool”.Press [read more]
Songs
‘Bells Of Rhymney (Live)’ [3:05] (Lyrics:Idris Davies Music: Pete Seeger), The Alarm
‘Bells Of Rhymney (Live)’ [3:05] (Lyrics:Idris Davies Music: Pete Seeger), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: “This is a song that I hope will make any Welshman proud to be on this stage this evening. This is a song of Wales, this is called The Bells Of Rhymney” O what can you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney. Is there hope for the future? Cry the brown bells of Merthyr. [read more]
Review: Eye Of The hurricane
Their first album in two years is touted as showing these four Welshmen exploring their Celtic roots. Turns out though that what they’ve really been exploring is how to sound like their old mates U2. In particular the new single Rain In Summertime could have been an outtake from Joshua Tree. Not only has vocalist Mike Peters got his Bono imitation off pat but song titles like Jericho and Hallowed [read more]