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Anyone Remember the Alarm?

  • 22-03-2005 12:05pm
    #1
    Ramones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭


    New to the boards here and just wondering if anyone here remembers Welsh punk band The Alarm?

    Supported U2 back in 85 at Croke Park and also supported them at Red Rocks on the Blood Red Sky gig.

    Sang 68 Guns, Spirit of 76 and Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?

    Anyone remember them?

    :cool:


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  • #2
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    That was Mike Peter's band? They released a live album last year I think.


  • #3
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Ramones wrote:
    New to the boards here and just wondering if anyone here remembers Welsh punk band The Alarm?

    Supported U2 back in 85 at Croke Park and also supported them at Red Rocks on the Blood Red Sky gig.

    Sang 68 Guns, Spirit of 76 and Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?

    Anyone remember them?

    :cool:

    I remember them, that Croke Park 85 gig was my first concert. Squeeze, R.E.M. and In Tua Nua also


  • #4
    Ramones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Ramones


    Yea same here - brilliant day out. I followed them quite a bit from that up until they split in '91.

    Reason I'm asking is because Mike Peters is still using the name with the blessing of the other 3 and he's playing 2 Irish dates in April - both acoustic and the audience gets to choose the setlist at the gigs - requesting songs they want to hear.

    Apparantley he's done this in the UK before and was a great success.

    He's playing The Rosetta Bar Belfast on Fri April 8th and Eamon Dorans in Dublin Saturday 9th of April.

    I'm gonna head to the Eamon Dorans gig myself. Looking forward to hearing some old classics again


  • #5
    abccormac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭abccormac


    As far as I remember they released a single under a different name a year orr two ago, as radio stations didn't want to play songs by the alarm, yhinking nobody wanted to hear them anymore. I don't think it worked particularly well.


  • #6
    Soul Traveller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Soul Traveller


    Actually it was last year, the video for the Single "45 rpm" was filmed using a band called the Wayriders from Chester, and the single was released to the media as if by a band called "The Poppyfields" (which hence was really the Alarm) not only did it reach #28 in the charts, but it made major world-wide news. Subsequently a major Hollywood motion picture is now in the works based on the story.
    More details of the story can be found at: http://www.thealarm.tv/newsdisp.asp?id=959&filter=


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  • #7
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    That Croke Park gig was my first concert too. I was never an Alarm fan but they rocked that day!


  • #8
    Ramones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Ramones


    Bump!

    Tomorrow night - Eamon Dorans

    read a reviw here....

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/music/pages/mike-peters.shtml


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