Gig: 4/7/1985, The Alarm, Breekend Festival, Bree, Belgium

7/15/1983: The Alarm, Sherwood Rooms, Nottingham Summary Press Release Set List Band Comments Fan Comments

‘This Is Life, Get Used To It’ [??:??] (Peters/Stevenson/Adams/Grantly), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: We started out with the best intentions But not everything turned out the way it should for both of us As the whirlwind blows through this house we built The lawyers and the analysts move in for the kill This is life get used to it We dishonour the truth yet we love the bullshit The house [read more]

3/26/2004 It was, pardon the pun, a rather alarming publicity stunt. But it worked. Mike Peters, founder of Welsh heart-on-sleeve rockers the Alarm, thought it’d be a hoot to release a new Alarm single under a different band name. Peters shipped “45 RPM,” a classic rocker in that band’s patented style, all chiming guitars and populist sing-along choruses, to British radio stations in a plain white wrapper, with the moniker [read more]