The Alarm: Live at Rockpalast (1984)

Our Alarm-fest continues (more here).



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The Alarm: Rarities (The Eighties)

This one is for Biopunk (who endured weeks of The Stranglers).
and for TylerPistol who provided the music.

A nice bootleg of hard-to-find material by The Alarm. It's nice set for fans - everyone else should go and buy the re-issued albums.



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The Alarm: Live in Boston (1983)

Here is the Alarm (more here) in their big-hair and bigger-choruses glory, circa 1983 in Boston, Mass.

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The Alarm: Direct Action

Mike Peter's has beaten cancer, twice, all the while remaining ferociously active. In fact the 21st century version of The Alarm (with Peters as sole original member) hits even harder than the first version did. It's a testament to the indomitable spirit of Peters and punk rock as a whole.

"45 R.P.M.", In the Poppyfields, 2004

"Three Sevens Clash" Guerrilla Tactics, ~2008

"Direct Action" from Direct Action 2010

"Release the Pressure" from Direct Action, 2010

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The Alarm & Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Heaven's Door

"...The reason I played the acoustic guitar and the harmonica in The Alarm was because of Dylan."

Mike Peters

We've been discussing Dylan's accomplices and interpreters from within the punk fold, so let us not miss The Alarm. The Alarm, from Rhys, Wales, began as a punk band named the Toilets before morphing into mod-punk band 17 (whose one single has more hooks than some band's Greatest Hits' albums) and then becoming something different altogether. Despite often getting lumped in with U2, with whom they shared a manager, a religious persuasion as well as a fierce devotion to bombast and mullets, The Alarm cut their own path. Certainly their kinship with the U2 must be noted but overall such a flip write-off does violence to the band's hard-strumming acoustic anthems, which also suggest an amalgam of '65 Dylan, '75 Springsteen and '79 Clash.

The band did end up as Dylan's opening band in the early days of the so-called Never Ending Tour and front man Mike Peters often joined the man on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".

Today's offering is a bootleg copy of the Alarm's first single from 1981 that I payed dearly for during a mad rush to own all their records many, many years ago. On the 'electric side', "Unsafe Building" does evince some U2-ish tendencies but the 'acoustic side's' "Up For Murder" is a skiffle-punk rave-up.


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(the original cover)

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Thanks to CallPastorBob for the scans.