‘Unsafe Building (session)’ [??:??] (MacDonald/Peters), The Alarm

Miles Copeland asks Tony Platt to remix ‘Eye Of The Hurricane’ without the band’s involvement. He remixes “Rain” and “Newtown Jericho’, but they are rejected. They songs are then sent to Hollywood to be remixed by David Leonard. When the band finally hears the mixes, they were not happy with tham at all. Dave and Mike personally travelled to Los Angeles on August 26th 1987 to play the originals for [read more]

This mini-LP, retailing at a mere pounds sterling3.99, sees The Alarm working their way through six of their standards- Rescue Me, Strength, Rain In The Summertime, Spirit Of ’76, Permanence In Change and Blaze Of Glory-and as live recordings go, it’s not a bad effort at all. The production is squeaky clean and captures the interaction between band and audience perfectly, particularly on Blaze Of Glory where everyone sings along [read more]

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