Gig: 2/14/1990, The Alarm, UEA, Norwich

INTERVIEW: Before Kloten Festival, May 1984 Notes: A well meaning, but hard to understand German speaking Swiss girl interviewed the band. Her questions are denoted with ‘I:’. I: "I just told People, umm, That you are using mostly acoustic guitars, and ah, not any synthesizers, and this is very rare nowadays, and why do you use no synthesizers?" Mike: "Well we just tend to think of ourselves as a band [read more]

Day Thirteen: Wednesday 8 June 2005 The day begins with a playback of last night’s drum takes. Upon reflection Steve decides to give it another go. Steve feels like he has missed something that will help the guitars to flow and be more dynamic. It is only something simple and involves adding another kick to the bass drum part, but it means Steve recording the drums all over again. This [read more]

‘Unsafe Building (Live KBFH)’ [3:44] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: “Thank you very much This song is a song we put all our money into making when we were living in Rhyl, North Wales & we didn’t have anything much going for us, so we made a single & this is it. This is called Declare Yourself Unsafe” Declare yourself an unsafe building Suffer the indignation of your world To [read more]