Gig: 5/5/1984, The Alarm, The Kabuki, San Francisco, CA

Steve Tannett sees The Alarm at Exceter University, wants to sign them to IRS records. Miles Copeland says it is OK if they are “cheap”.

From Rolling Stone Online (June 14th, 2006) The Alarm End Fifteen-Year Hiatus Ending a fifteen-year hiatus, U.K. post-punks the ALARM drop their new album stateside on June 13th and perform a one-off gig on July 12th at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. The band hopes to embark on a full U.S. tour in support of Under Attack — which refers in part to frontman MIKE PETERS’ decade-long battle with leukemia — [read more]