Gig: 12/8/1989, The Alarm, Toronto, Canada

The Alarm: Back In The USA The Alarm marched into New York Town once again to kick off their “Back In The USA” tour. To the delight of Alarm fanatics everywhere, they’ve been making frequent visits to America of late. Riding high on the strength of their brilliant new album “In The Poppy Fields”, the dazzling culmination of five self-produced independent releases over a five-month period. Having allowed their faithful [read more]

Day Forty Three : Sunday 15th July 2005 It’s time for me to me to deliver the lead vocal on Cease And Desist. As it is such a fast song there is no holding back on the vocal, It brings out a very ‘Declaration’ quality in my vocals. Once the vocal are on we begin to realize that our initial idea of starting the track straight in at the lead [read more]

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]