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Review: ARCC #2: The Alarm Live At The Hammersmith Palais
Album: ARCC #2: The Alarm Live At The Hammersmith Palais Release Date: Dec. ’02 Where to Buy:MPO, online This Live album captures the original The Alarm lineup at what was most likely the best “live” moment in their history. Originally a BBC Radio Show, it was recorded at The Hammersmith Palais Feb 14th, 1984 (and subsequentlybootlegged as “First Rebel Carriage” and “Live In London”). Mike Peters has painstakingly remastered recreated [read more]
Review: Review: The Alarm, ‘Superchannel’ Feb 6 2006
Superchannel – The Alarm (EMI) Just as 45RPM roared its defiant way into the top 40 on the back of some stealth bombing by Mike Peters and his army of devoted Alarm fans, so Superchannel, similarly brim full of belligerent punk fire, looks to detonate in the upper echelons of the charts. And in doing so hopefully ripping a hole in people�s preconceived perceptions of Peters and his music. Stripped [read more]
Review: THE LIMIT, SHEFFIELD, 5 February 1984
The Limit club is packed to the rafters with over-aged and under-aged punks, hippies and students whose enthusiasm is seemingly unbounded. As the evening progresses the sick, smoky atmosphere gets denser and condensation begins to run down the walls and drip off the roof. The Alarm bounce into view and throw themselves into their set with a burning passion, to an instantly wild response from the crowd. Their stance is [read more]