Gig: 3/27/1984, The Alarm, Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FL

This mini-LP, retailing at a mere pounds sterling3.99, sees The Alarm working their way through six of their standards- Rescue Me, Strength, Rain In The Summertime, Spirit Of ’76, Permanence In Change and Blaze Of Glory-and as live recordings go, it’s not a bad effort at all. The production is squeaky clean and captures the interaction between band and audience perfectly, particularly on Blaze Of Glory where everyone sings along [read more]

‘Absolute Reality (Single version)’ [3:25] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Hey now now Hey hey hey You may be rich You may be poor You may have nothing in this world at all You may be black,you maybe white You may be a prisioner in your own times You may be lost. You may be found You may have been beaten up and knocked to the ground You may have [read more]

‘Up Downtown (itpf bond)’ [??:??] (Mike Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I was running with the backhanders From the mona to the mermaiders From the east end to the west paraders Through the car park and up the stairs You can forget all your troubles, forget all of your cares I’m going up downtown I met the twist in there one new years eve [In the nineteen seventies] I said [read more]