Gig: 5/7/1982, The Alarm, Oxford Polytechnic

‘Corridors Of Power’ [3:04] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Picture you on a pedestal So avant-garde of mind Standing in the last ditch Where fallen heroes lie Stand to the left of centre Stand to the right sometimes All good politicians Speak in riddles and in rhymes I’m looking under tables I’m looking under chairs Been searching for an answer Been searching everywhere Yeah Day by day Hour by hour [read more]

Day Forty: Wednesday 12th July 2005 ‘Superchannel’ sounds as good today as it did last night. The mix is run off together with an instrumental backing track mix without vocals and a mix of all the vocals only. We do this just in case we need to have a louder / quieter vocal when we come to master the album. There is always someone out there in the radio promotion [read more]

‘Black Sun’ [4:30] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I run for my life Under the black sunlight On deserted streets Uneasy dreams I sleep In this forgitten place I’m a forgotten face Sometimes I don’t exist Like the dust swept aside Fade away on the wind fadeaway To walk away into the tide walkaway That’s the end That’s the end The end of the great black gold That’s the [read more]