Gig: 7/28/1988, The Alarm, Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, TX

Day Nineteen: Thursday 16 June 2005 The rehearsal room is crackling with energy, we are running through the new song (Working title – It’s Alright, It’s O.K.), it’s working out really well. No dramas, beginning to develop some vocal lines as I want to write the lyrics for this album as the music develops. James finds something in the bridge that I did not realize was there, a have a [read more]

‘New South Wales, A’ [4:46] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time In the Rhondda tonight The Davey lamps that shone so brightly There’s no more need for their light As the last piece of coal is cut From the belly of the black seamed hole A man walks home alone Past a church full of mourning souls Throughout his lifetime he has fought [read more]

Mike Howlett replaces the absent Jimmy Iovine to produce “Strength”. Recording starts the Roundhouse in London. With the band recoding silly covers of a overa dozen songs. A few of the tracks appear on the “Abolsute Tour” flexi disc.