A Personal Message From Mike Peters
“I’m writing personally to thank you for the love and understanding shown to me and my family during my trials at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, throughout these challenging last few months. Andrew Richardson (my publisher at A Way With Media), has kept me fully abreast of all the wonderful feedback you have sent him regarding the book content, story telling and attention to detail that I poured into the writing of Love 1959 – 1991. Luckily for me, I was able to stay alive long enough through 2024 to complete Volume 2 HOPE – 1991 – 2005 and we are all now ready and excited to share news and detail of its publication so I’m going to hand this part over to Andrew”.
Mike Peters
Andrew Richardson here, so great to have Mike back in our lives again after all he has endured.
We are now ready to announce the next part of Mike’s Trilogy, Hope, which is strictly limited to 500 superluxe copies and 800 luxe copies. The superluxe edition for Volume One sold out during the pre-sale, before its launch, and we expect those to sell very, very quickly.
Here is your link to purchase Hope 1981-2005 by Mike Peters:
Superluxe edition: www.awaywithmedia.com/buy-books/entertainment/mike-peters-hope-superluxe
Luxe edition: www.awaywithmedia.com/buy-books/entertainment/mike-peters-hope
Thank you,
Andrew Richardson
PUBLISHER @ A WAY WITH MEDIA.
Mike Peters – Hope 1991 – 2005 (VOLUME 2).
Readers of Mike Peters autobiography Love 1959 – 1991 (Volume 1) are about to discover it’s the book that keeps on giving when the launch of Volume 2 – Hope 1991-2005 begins officially on April 27th 2025 ready for publication on November 1st 2025.
The books, the music tell the whole story as lived by Mike Peters from birth, re-birth and on to new life.
It’s now only a matter of time before readers of Mike Peters Love 1959-1991 (who have devoured Volume one) can experience what followed next after Mike Peters’ out of character announcement to leave the stage at Brixton Academy and open a new chapter defined by the next seven words he sung on that fateful night of June 30th 1991.
The story of Hope 1991 – 2005 takes readers through some of the most unknown periods of Mike’s life, into the post Alarm aftermath and pre-internet light.
Mike Peters first ever solo photo session July 1991. Photo by Jules Peters.
Within the pages of HOPE 1991 – 2005, you can find out how Mike Peters’ rediscovered himself as a songwriter, founded the MPO and The Gathering, was minutes away from a staggering October 1995 Alarm reunion before being confronted in the very same month by the spectre of Cancer and a new era of the psychological combat zone.
Hope 1991 – 2005 takes you backstage on the ride through Mike’s astonishing 1990’s solo years of Breathe, Feel Free, Rise, Flesh and Blood, the birth of thelarm.com and the dawn of the Internet.
The first steps of Coloursound formed with Mike’s own personal guitar hero – the Cult’s Billy Duffy.
The Alarm 2000 era with Stuart Adamson and Big Country that lead to The Alarm’s eventual regeneration as a new and creative musical force via the revolutionary 5 month / 5 album World Wide Web release – In The Poppy Fields.
There’s always the ever present Peters’ household drama in the background as Mike reveals for the first time, what it was like to have to become a father through IVF and the sacrifices Mike and Jules’ had to make in order to give birth to their most desired of dreams – children and eventual conceptual twins – Dylan and Evan.
Readers will also be able to discover the real backstory behind VHI BANDS REUNITED which finally brought the original members of The Alarm back together for One Night Only in 2003, and then on to the Poppy Fields / Alarm fake band subterfuge that caused controversy around the world in 2004 before the devastation of Mike discovering cancer again in 2005 while touring with Dead Men Walking and making The Alarm MMIV classic album Under Attack.
People say you can’t write the script, well Mike Peters has, and it all continues with Volume 2 Hope 1991 – 2005.
Volume 2 Hope 1991 – 2005 comes with all the scope and detail as can be witnessed in Volume One. This time in a new all white colour scheme and a clam shell box set containing the 120,000 plus word manuscript enhanced with masses of previously unseen photos, contracts and details from Mike Peters’ personal and extensive archive.
Superluxe version also includes Lifetrack VINYL LP and AUDIO CD plus a Reproduction Book of all the contemporary editions of the 21st Century Fanzine which mirrors the story line completely with rare interviews, reviews and news articles from across the era.
Hope 1991 – 2005 by Mike Peters is as complete a package as you could wish for and another legacy marker documenting the remarkable life and times of Mike Peters.