Photo: The Alarm,6/29/2004

Day Eight: Thursday 2 June 2005 The first thing I suggest we work on is a song I have worked up for the Mark Radcliffe show on Radio Two. I have been given a set of lyrics called ‘Menai Bridge’ by the winner of a national poetry competition and have been challenged by Mark Radcliffe to put the poem to music. I was given the lyrics during the interactive acoustic [read more]

The Alarm bring alan Shacklock back to try to record some songs for Strength. Shacklock was already working with roger Daltry, but he asked Miek and Eddie to record a song for the Daltry album. They recorded “In The Cold Light Of Day”, which would one day become “Only Love Can Set Me Free”

‘No Frontiers’ [3:53] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: A thousand miles before us Long is the road The mountain high And the valley low Our love is stronger than we know In the tears of a river I see the wrong Hear the mountain cry Cry anger Feel the pain in the valley below I want to run Where the sunlight beats on my face I want to feel The [read more]