Gig: 6/3/1984, The Alarm, The Batschkapp, Frankfurt

Strength single is released. Reaches #40 in the UK, #61 on the USA Hto 100 chart, #12 on the Mainstream rock chart. The Alarm finally havea bigger hit in the USA than in the UK.

‘Strength To Strength (acoustic demo)’ [4:29] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Every day in the struggle to survive I see good and I see bad We�ve seen our dreams turn to dust And now we must rebuild them There�ll be no more 2nd chances We must not lose it again Tonight my friend until the end Tonight from strength to strength We were young and easy We didn�t know what [read more]

The Alarm have combed down their hair and finally plugged in their guitars. Martin Wroe turns up the volume and takes a long hard look at the Welsh wonders’ second album. Eight years ago, in a school in North Wales, two punked-up young boys discovered mutual inspiration in a band called The Clash and formed a punk combo named The Toilets. Those two lads, in the flush of youth, were [read more]