Photo: The Alarm,5/6/1982

6/4/1983: The Alarm, Polytechnic, Coventry (cancelled) Summary The Stand Tour. The entire tour (only 3 dates!) was cancelled because the band were invited to support U2 on the USA leg of The War Tour.Press Release Set List Band Comments Fan Comments

Day Eleven: Monday 6 June 2005 First job of the day is to record my acoustic guitars on ‘Menai Bridge’. The question is where do we record acoustic guitars? The first place that Martin and I try is inside the drum booth. I decide to try the part on the Gibson J200. Once Martin has a sound up and has hit record, I realize that the picking part of the [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]