Review: Review: Coloursound EP

Refresh Daily …A very strong album… This Is Lancashire Forget that The Alarm have been around since the early ’80s, this is a cracker. Sunday Sentinel, Stafford THE ALARM MMVI- Under Attack “Since Alarm Singer Mike Peters is currently undergoing chemotherapy for Leukaemia the title of his band’s new album is more than a little personal. After fooling the sheep of the music industry by last year releasing a single, [read more]

This is the kind of record that could only come from a young band. Determined, committed and naive, the five songs on this EP have all the hallmarks of idealistic youth: simple, forceful music, rambling strings of earnestly poetic images and the conviction that speaking out just might change a few things. And like Bob Dylan, U2 or the Clash, these four young Welshmen pull it off. The Alarm don’t [read more]

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]