Gig: 3/16/1984, The Alarm, Coliseum, Austin, TX

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The album title tells it. The Alarm, once ardent sons of ’68 Guns’ have, in their time, hopped, skipped, and straddled most conceivable and accepted rock styles – falling in and out of favour as they’ve done so. If ‘Change” does transcend their solid base of appreciation, then it will almost certainly be helped by Mike Peters’ stark, homespun words streaked with apparent Welsh pride and tarnished emotion. “The valley [read more]

Demos for the “Abolsute Reality” aalbum recorded at Ezee Hire stusios in London. They were used to lure Jimmy Iovine to produce The alarm scheduledfor January 1985. Iovone renigs, and the “Absolute Reality” album becomes a single relesed in April 1984. the new album, retitle “Strength” is recorded ith Mike Howlett instead.