Photo: The Alarm,4/1/1986

‘Chant Has Just Begun, The (Single version)’ [3:41] (Macdonald/Peters/Sharp), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Weialala leia Wallala leilala (Fighting) The chant has just begun The song must now be sung For the word must now be spoken The chant has just begun (Fighting, Fighting) Here we are in times of recession The cuts are like a stab in the back To the monetary sound the world goes round Unrest on every [read more]

CHART COMMENTARY From UK.Launch.Yahoo.com by JAMES MASTERTON The Stands break into the Top 30 for the first time at Number 25 following two smaller hits in 2003, but the big story of the lower end of the chart arrives at Number 28. Step forward The Poppyfields who are an old name with a new name so to speak. The group are best known as 80s welsh rockers The Alarm who, [read more]

Day Thirty Nine: Tuesday 12th July 2005 The idea is that we start around 10/11 in the morning and then work to around the same time in the evening, allowing time for last orders at the pub. As always when you are recording an album, the best laid plans go out the window almost immediately. We end up working until about three in the morning as we get so into [read more]