Day Fifty Sixty : Saturday 13th August 2005
Electric Lady Studios, New York. While I perform an extremely emotional Alarmstock in the live are of the studio. Ryan Simms works up ...
Scottish Daily Record dated 25/02/06.
Scottish Daily Record dated 25/02/06.
Full Frontal Recoedings
There�s 13 tracks in all and if great guitar music is your poison then you really do need to check ...
Day Fifty Nine : Sunday 7th August 2005
Pete Walsh mixes 'Something's Got To Give' at Ark studios in Surrey. James Stevenson re-records the guitar solos for the track. On the ...
Day Fifty Eight : Saturday 6th August 2005
Today is Alarmstock Abbey Road. The idea is that while I am performing the shows in the live room downstairs at Studio 2. ...
Alarm Call Feb 23 2006
Claire Rees, Celtic Newspapers
WHEN Green Day gave an uber-fashionable music programme of their top 10 most influential bands, Mike Peters from Welsh rock outfit The Alarm ...
2/25/2006: The Alarm MMVI, Cardiff Coal ExchangeSummary Press Release
The Alarm MMVI will release their much anticipated new album titled 'Under Attack' on EMI records on February 20th 2006. ...
Day Fifty Seven : Monday 29th July 2005
I get a call from James Stevenson, he has been listening to the album non-stop all weekend and morning. He is not too ...
Dave Owens @ ICWales:
To sum up, Under Attack is both the sound of a band playing on its raw instincts and pushing the parameters of its creativity and experience. In ...
Day Fifty Six : Saturday 30th July 2005
We all assembled at the wedding and had a blast, kicking into our favourite glam rock tunes and toasting the health of the ...
Day Fifty Five : Friday 29th July 2005
Midday and a quick check of the mix of 'Be Still' and it is sounding fantastic. It's the final day today and Liam ...
Day Fifty Four : Thursday 28th July 2005
George and Martin have run the vocal comp through to the morning. We are all getting tired now and everything is taking longer. ...
Day Fifty Three : Wednesday 27th July 2005
Today followed a similar pattern as yesterday. Vocal comp on 'Something's Got To Give', then some last guitar overdubs and then onto the ...
Day Fifty Two : Tuesday 23rd July 2005
In the morning, George and I sorted out the best vocal take for 'This Is Life [Get Used To It]. We added some ...
Day Fifty One : Monday 22nd July 2005
Run off the mix of 'Zero' and then Craig records bass on 'Few And Far Between'. We then move onto 'This Is Life ...
2/18/2006: The Alarm MMVI, Hard Rock Cafe presents - First Play Thursdays: The AlarmSummary Press Release Set List Band Comments Fan Comments
Day Fifty : Sunday 21st July 2005
George is mixing 'Zero' this morning. The track has most of it's information recorded. It only needs a guitar part from James which gets ...
Day Forty Nine : Saturday 20th July 2005
We head off to the Leckie wedding at 9 o'clock in the morning to soundcheck before the wedding guests arrive. It has been ...
Day Forty Eight : Friday 19th July 2005
Somehow we have been coerced into playing a Children Of The Revolution gig for John Leckie. John Leckie is the famous producer of ...
Day Forty Seven : Thursday 18th July 2005
It's a busy early morning as Jules and Dylan are going back to Wales. Jules has got Alarmstock in London, New York and ...
Day Forty Six : Wednesday 17th July 2005
Tough day finishing 'Without A Fight' mix. George finished a mix with Martin that everyone seemed to like. While we were making a ...
Day Forty Five : Tuesday 16th July 2005
Began the day with a walk along the river into Henley. By ten we were working on comipling the best vocal take from ...
Look At this Review Of Under Attack From Rock Sound Magazine
Another Great Review From Manchester Online
By AS
The Alarm have been through hell since their heady 80�s high times ...
Day Forty Four : Monday 16th July 2005
We finish the mix of 'Cease And Desist' by midday and then move onto 'Without A Fight'. Steve and Craig arrive in the ...
Day Forty Three : Sunday 15th July 2005
It's time for me to me to deliver the lead vocal on Cease And Desist. As it is such a fast song there ...
Day Forty Two : Friday 14th July 2005
George finishes the mix in the morning, while Jules, Dylan and myself take a walk along the banks of the Thames. It's another ...
Day Forty One : Thursday 13th July 2005
The morning is spent getting the best out of the four vocal takes I recorded yesterday. At 1200 we observed the two minute ...
Superchannel - The Alarm (EMI)
Just as 45RPM roared its defiant way into the top 40 on the back of some stealth bombing by Mike Peters and his army of devoted ...
Day Forty: Wednesday 12th July 2005
'Superchannel' sounds as good today as it did last night. The mix is run off together with an instrumental backing track mix without vocals and ...
Day Thirty Nine: Tuesday 12th July 2005
The idea is that we start around 10/11 in the morning and then work to around the same time in the evening, allowing time ...
Day Thirty Eight: Monday 11th July 2005
Finally get to the Doghouse Studios and it feels like home straight away. George and Barrie are there to meet me, Jules and Dylan. ...
Day Thirty Seven: Friday 8th July 2005
After the events of yesterday, everything seems subdued and you can't help feeling that this is what it must be like all over the ...
Day Thirty Six: Thursday 7th July 2005
We will all remember where we were when we heard about the bombings on the London Underground. I was with Jules traveling across the ...
Let�s get this out of the way first. �Superchannel� rocks. It rocks hard. It�s a sing-a-long, balls-out scorcher. It�s catchy enough to be a hit ...
Day Thirty Five: Wednesday 6th July 2005
Martin was first in this morning and spent an hour or two tweaking the computer system. We are using a Mac based system with ...
From the Western Mail:
ALARM leader singer Mike Peters is to start discussions with Rhys Ifans in a bid to persuade the Welsh actor to play him in a new Hollywood ...
Day Thirty Four: Tuesday 5th July 2005
Craig recorded his bass guitar on all the remaining tracks including 'Zero', which we have got a feeling might make it all the way ...
Day Thirty Three: Monday 4th July 2005
I get into the studio early today as I want to try and work up a song for 'Zero'. J.J. has been good to ...
