Gig: 3/25/1983, The Alarm, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool

Video clip for “68 Guns” filmed.

‘Devolution Working Man Blues (electric demo)’ [3:47] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I don�t crawl No I don�t race I got no-one To call my own And all these streets That I spit upon There’s no money in my pocket No soles on my shoes I ain’t got no religion But the workingman�s blues Got the workin’ man blues Got the workingman blues Devolution workingman blues I won’t dance A [read more]

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]