Bootleg TThe Alarm: CD, ‘Live At The New York Forum’ cat #:??, country: USA

3/26/2004 It was, pardon the pun, a rather alarming publicity stunt. But it worked. Mike Peters, founder of Welsh heart-on-sleeve rockers the Alarm, thought it’d be a hoot to release a new Alarm single under a different band name. Peters shipped “45 RPM,” a classic rocker in that band’s patented style, all chiming guitars and populist sing-along choruses, to British radio stations in a plain white wrapper, with the moniker [read more]

‘Pavilion Steps’ [3:52] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Eddie MacDonaldLyrics: Remember the place we used to know all those years ago Remember the times we used to have there when we were so young We’d look to the future in our naive way We’d look from the sands the world seemed far away So when we heard we tried to save it but we went unheard And even in the eleventh hour [read more]

2/28/1984: The Alarm, BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen Session (repeat) Summary A re- broadcast of the session first broadcast on 15th October 1983Press Release Set List Howling Wind Unbreak the Promise Walk Forever By My Side Excerpts from One Step Closer To Home – this is how it was announced and is shown as such on the BBC contract.Band Comments Fan Comments