Gig: 2/2/1988, The Alarm, Manchester Apollo

Day Twenty Seven: Tuesday 28th June 2005 During the morning, Martin recorded my guitar parts on ‘Cease And Desist’ and ‘It’s Alright It’s O.K.’. During the afternoon we had a visit from J.J. Haggar. J.J. has been an invaluable friend to me and the band over the last four / five years. He was probably the first person to hear ’45 R.P.M.’ and it was J.J. who sent out the [read more]

Day Fifty : Sunday 21st July 2005 George is mixing ‘Zero’ this morning. The track has most of it’s information recorded. It only needs a guitar part from James which gets recorded by lunch time. I am going into London to visit Bobby Troman who first started working for The Alarm back in 1983 on the Stand tour. Bobby is only 42 but recently suffered a huge stroke whilst on [read more]

At the last minute, Miles Copeland asks the band to replace the song ‘World On Fire’ with something else. They choose ‘Shelter’.