Photo: The Alarm 2000,10/15/2000

�We�re going to rock Missoula, aren�t we?� The Alarm 2000 hits the Ritz this Tuesday. The Alarm is still the hardest-working band in Britain Say what you will about aging frontmen and the occasional overstayed welcome, but so far no one can touch Mike Peters of the Alarm for his work ethic. To celebrate the UK release of The Alarm 2000 Collection, a remastered nine-CD set containing the band�s complete [read more]

The Alarm Alarm 2000 Collection 21ST CENTURY 21C018 Much derided, even in their heyday, The Alarm suffered from a tendancy to wear their influences (Clash, U2, Dylan) all too obviously on their sleeves. Their songs sometimes struggled clumsily to contain frontman Mike Peters’ big-hearted righteous visions, but when it all clicked together (68 Guns, Blaze of Glory) their stomping rock lit up a moribund ’80s musical landscape. Immaculately packaged and [read more]

  STEVE GRANTLEY INTERVIEW Thanks go to Steve for taking the time out to conduct this interview, and to Katrina Copping for conducting and transcibing it. I start by asking you how you got into playing the drums.  I started banging bongos when I was four years old. I got my first drum kit when I was 11. My parents bought it for me after I had driven them insane [read more]