2/2/1988: The Alarm, Manchester Apollo
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The Celtic Folklore Tour
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Day Fifty Four : Thursday 28th July 2005 George and Martin have run the vocal comp through to the morning. We are all getting tired now and everything is taking longer. George wants to mix the track during the afternoon. His initial thought that it would be an easy mix is not how it turned out. George and Martin got into the mix big time and even had Steve re-record [read more]
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ANTHEMIC: the Alarm had as much Beatles as Clash and U2 in them, with a strong dash of Mighty Mighty Bosstones camaraderie. Even in their ’80s heyday, the Alarm used to get knocked for writing too many anthems – as if coming up with rock anthems that worked were an easy thing to do. But the Welsh quartet wrote virtually nothing else: they took “The Stand,” they made the “Declaration,” [read more]
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