Gig: 4/27/1985, The Alarm, The Apollo, Oxford

Day Forty Three : Sunday 15th July 2005 It’s time for me to me to deliver the lead vocal on Cease And Desist. As it is such a fast song there is no holding back on the vocal, It brings out a very ‘Declaration’ quality in my vocals. Once the vocal are on we begin to realize that our initial idea of starting the track straight in at the lead [read more]

Day Eleven: Monday 6 June 2005 First job of the day is to record my acoustic guitars on ‘Menai Bridge’. The question is where do we record acoustic guitars? The first place that Martin and I try is inside the drum booth. I decide to try the part on the Gibson J200. Once Martin has a sound up and has hit record, I realize that the picking part of the [read more]

Declaration (Richard Skinner Session), released in 2008 on “The Alarm Radio Sessions 1983-1991”