Gig: 4/9/1991, The Alarm, Derby Assembly Rooms

‘We Are The Light (Live KBFH)’ [3:22] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: “This song’s called We Are The Light” People Light up your light tonight I want to see you shine Fight despair Don�t let it get you down Don�t let it tie you down There�s a man with a wife and three children He�s been told he can�t work There�s a boy who�s been told there�s no future He�s [read more]

Day Fifty Three : Wednesday 27th July 2005 Today followed a similar pattern as yesterday. Vocal comp on ‘Something’s Got To Give’, then some last guitar overdubs and then onto the mix. The main thing to worry about is about having backing vocals or not. ‘B.V.’s’ as they are known, can make a track sound soft and as this is a hard beast we decided to leave it alone. The [read more]

Essentially, this record started out life as a CD version of �The Alarm� E.P., which has never been released. Instead, it has become something much more. This CD stands as an historical record, chronicling the sonic rise of a nearly anonymous Wales-based punk band into a chart-topping success story. The album starts out, appropriately enough, with a-side and b-side from The Alarm�s first independent 1981 single Unsafe Building b/w Up [read more]