Gig: 5/9/1985, The Alarm, Apollo, Manchester

Day Eight: Thursday 2 June 2005 The first thing I suggest we work on is a song I have worked up for the Mark Radcliffe show on Radio Two. I have been given a set of lyrics called ‘Menai Bridge’ by the winner of a national poetry competition and have been challenged by Mark Radcliffe to put the poem to music. I was given the lyrics during the interactive acoustic [read more]

‘Dawn Chorus (Live Chicago Vic 1987)’ [6:47] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I’m a lonely man walking lonely streets I’m soaked to the skin with the pain of my unease From such a strained existence The tension in this world it keeps me from sleep I’m hungry and cold There’s a weight hanging over my shoulders A rain black cloud of doubt Have I got enough love Have I got [read more]

‘Breaking Point (acoustic demo)’ [3:02] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: three��four Do you wake up in the middle of the night Find your eyes are on full beam You’re totally wired Sweat stains on your bedsheets Your throat is burnin’ dry Caught in your worst nightmare you cannot deny Become what you said you’d You�d never become You hate yourself for all the things you’ve never done You tell yourself [read more]