Gig: 7/14/1983, The Alarm, The Warehouse, Leeds

‘Hardland (electric demo)’ [4:55] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Hardland, Ripped and torn apart Hard dreams, leaves me scared Line on my face A story of faith In the hardlands Oh I was born Deep in the heartlands Where a man is judged By the scars on his face Where that sliding scale still operates I was born, raised in the way of the Hardland I hear a song �Land [read more]

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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]