Review: Review: Dead Men Walking: Sunday 4th November 2001

Scottish Daily Record dated 25/02/06. Scottish Daily Record dated 25/02/06. Full Frontal Recoedings There�s 13 tracks in all and if great guitar music is your poison then you really do need to check this out. There�s some brilliant Rock N Roll numbers on here such as �My Town�, �This Is The Way We Are�, �Superchannel� and �Cease And Desist�. The other numbers aren�t far behind and I promise once heard [read more]

Their first album in two years is touted as showing these four Welshmen exploring their Celtic roots. Turns out though that what they’ve really been exploring is how to sound like their old mates U2. In particular the new single Rain In Summertime could have been an outtake from Joshua Tree. Not only has vocalist Mike Peters got his Bono imitation off pat but song titles like Jericho and Hallowed [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]