Review: Review: Coloursound EP

The Complete Coloursound Collection Twenty First Century Recordings (21C022,23,24) Three CD’S Coloursound, the brainchild of Mike Peter’s of The Alarm, Billy Duffy of The Cult, Craig Adams of the Mission/Sisters of Mercy, was bried flicker whose flame appears to have gone out. As someone who saw them live, I can say its a damn shame. Formed sometime in 1998, they toured extensively and released one full-length album that barely made [read more]

http://www.getreadytorock.com/reviews/the_alarm2.htm THE ALARM Under Attack EMI/Liberty (2006) The Alarm are back with another superb album full of rousing anthems and more mellow acoustic moments. After the comeback success of ‘In The Popppyfields’ which included the band’s hit single ’45 RPM’, the band are back on their old label EMI. It maybe just Mike Peters remaining from the 80’s line-up but then he is the Alarm really. The success of this [read more]

The Alarm � In the Poppyfields (Snapper Music) Fresh from their amusingly successful exploits humiliating and exposing the prejudicial arrogance of the high and mighty music press with their recent Top 30 single posing as the Poppyfields, The Alarm return with a new album that seems to owe more than a little influentially to U2. I�m proud to say that we weren�t fooled by the band�s recent spoof outing. In [read more]