Review: Review: Coloursound EP

At precisely 21.00 Hours on the 25th January 2003, Mike Peters and The Alarm took to the stage and delivered a 2 hour and 50 minute rock and roll extravaganza of brilliant new songs and and the best that their illustrious past has to offer. On entering the venue, which was decked out in huge swathes of poppy fields projected onto walls, back drops and matching white amplification and drums, [read more]

This ambitiously titled best of selection provides a shedful of reasons why The Alarm have failed to build upon their loyal cult audience in the UK. In a sweaty club or concert hall it is possible to surf along on the waves of euphoria generated by the group’s derivative lightweight rock anthems and the air-punching enthusiasm of their fans, but collected together on this LP, their recorded highlights sound worthy, [read more]

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]