Photo: The Alarm,7/17/2004

The album title tells it. The Alarm, once ardent sons of ’68 Guns’ have, in their time, hopped, skipped, and straddled most conceivable and accepted rock styles – falling in and out of favour as they’ve done so. If ‘Change” does transcend their solid base of appreciation, then it will almost certainly be helped by Mike Peters’ stark, homespun words streaked with apparent Welsh pride and tarnished emotion. “The valley [read more]

Description: The Alarm’s final show from Brixton Academy, 30th June 1991. Tracks Notes: Versions The Alarm: Video, ‘Blaze Of Glory’ cat #:IRS 8120, country: USA The Alarm: Video, ‘Blaze Of Glory’ cat #:TVC VC4110, country: UK

‘Third Light (live)’ [3:37] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Eddie MacDonaldLyrics: Your head on my shoulder Two months you�ve been a soldier I feel so sick inside, two months you�d have been alive No one here knows your surname and no one knows from where you came The red cross takes you to your grave for which your government kindly pays WHITE CROSS upon the hillside there lies that unknown soldier No [read more]