Interview: Eddie Macdonald, The Alarm

GOING (BACK) OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY The ALARM were one of the bands from the "Celtic fringe" that surfed the post-punk energy tha...

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Interview: Mike Peters, The Alarm

In July 2014, Colin Liddell did a "phoner" (or "skyper") with Mike Peters, the singer and main songwriter of 1980s...

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Interview: Dave Sharp, The Alarm

SHARP TUNING ALARM guitar man Dave Sharp is currently on the road with a backing band of Yankee Hillbillies and a set of songs more akin to ...

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Live Review: The Alarm, Brixton Academy, 15th February, 1990

United Strength I always find Brixton Academy a rather sad venue, a once beautiful building long past its best in a worse than bad ...

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Interview: Mike Peters, The Alarm

SOMETHING TO DECLARE You only live twice: once when you're born and once when you look death in the face. Basho's Haiku poem may hav...

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POST-PUNK HERO MIKE PETERS DEAD AT 66

Mike Peters (third from left) From the BBC : "Mike Peters, front man of Welsh rockers The Alarm and a long-standing cancer campaigner a...

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Revenge Recommends: "Spirit Of 76" by The Alarm

A paean to youthful idealism (or juvenile naivety), Spirit of '76 was the epitome of the Alarm's earnest and heartfelt 1980s C...

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Interview: Richey Edwards, The Manic Street Preachers

Blackwood, South Wales? Ring any bells? ...Thought not. Blackwood, and for that matter Wales in general isn't famed for its Rock N...

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Interview: Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne

Collingwood (far right) Offbeat band a hit with white-collar songs American popular music is notoriously restrictive in its choice o...

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