Gig: 2/3/1988, The Alarm, Bradford St George’s Hall

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 Fourteen: Thursday 9 June 2005 Steve and Martin do some work on editing / tidying up the drums on ‘Without A Fight’ before Steve leaves us for a weekend of gigs with ‘Stiff Little Fingers’. Myself, James and Craig are going to concentrate our energies on recording the guitar parts to the tracks we have already done. James Stevenson has just acquired a 1970’s Gibson Les Paul bass guitar [read more]

‘Bells Of Rhymney, The’ [2:58] (Idris Davies/Pete Seeger), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: O what can you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney. Is There hope for the future? Cry the brown bells of Merthyr. Who made the mineowner? Say the black bells of Rhondda And who robbed the miner? Cry the grim bells of Blaina. They will plunder willy-nilly Say the bells of Caerphilly They have fangs, they [read more]