Photo: The Alarm,3/1/1985

‘Lie Of The Land (Live Long Island My Fathers Place 1983)’ [2:57] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: “It’s called Let’s Keep The Flames Of Hope Alive, Never Let The Fires Die Cause If They Should Die There’ll Be No Light Left In This Land Take A Lie Of The Land, Dave” Too young to care too old to fight Ain’t bothered about your life Drop out far out don’t go [read more]

Day Seventeen: Tuesday 14 June 2005 James Stevenson arrives back with his son Oscar in tow. We decide to tackle the guitars on ‘Cease And Desist’. Out comes the cherry red 12 string Gibson 335. This is the guitar that gave such a distinctive sound to ’45 R.P.M.’. The intro riff sounds great even though it takes an age for James to get used to the correct way of playing [read more]

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