The Alarm

[Seshmeister]

All I seem to do is go to 30th anniversary shows these days. :p

Tonight it's these people and I have to take the ex-goth out for the night and home before daylight hits her in costume.

I'm struggling to remember much about them...

[binnie]

Wasn't this the band that Stuart Anderson formed after The Skids?

Sort of celtic punk if memory serves.....

[chefcraig]

The Standards compilation was great, yet I have to admit it's the only album I ever bought by them. :ashamed:

The last I heard, they had consented to be on that horrible VH 1 Bands Reunited show. However, a check of the band's website (http://www.thealarm.com/directaction/index.html) reveals this very cool tidbit:



BE A MEMBER OF THE ALARM FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY - Unique opportunity to be in The Alarm.

Alarm fans are being given the unique opportunity to make their own mark on the Alarm's Anniversary year, via a special internet charity auction, enabling winners to become an official member of The Alarm'For One Night Only' for each date of the tour.

Successful entrants will be invited on stage during the encore to become an honorary member of The Alarm.

Funds raised will benefit a cancer care facility local to each venue on the tour via Mike Peters' charity Love Hope Strength Foundation (http://www.lovehopestrength.co.uk/)

The winning bid will also receive:

Play and appear on stage with The Alarm for the Love Hope Strength song, (no musicial ability needed for the winner).
Photograph backstage with The Alarm prior to show.
Meet the band backstage.
Certificate of authentication to validate that you were officially in The Alarm.

The auction is open now with bids starting from £50 per night per show.

PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR EACH SHOW THE BIDDING WILL CLOSE 5 DAYS BEFORE AT MIDNIGHT GMT. For example, Darwen date, bids will close on Sunday, 1 May 2011 midnight.

Please email katrina@lovehopestrengthfoundation.co.uk with your suggested bid and the name of show that you are bidding on.

Winners will be notified by email and payment will need to be received before the event.

Updates on the bids will appear each night on the Alarm and Love Hope Strength facebook pages.

Good luck - happy bidding and look forward to seeing you on the tour.

A nice thing to see, and good for them. :appl:

[Seshmeister]

On investigation I'm told they are more Welsh Big Country than goth.

I'm not sure that's a good thing. May get preloaded on booze and listen to my iPhone during the show.

[chefcraig]

More accurately, they were like a poorer man's U2, and that isn't meant as an insult. Try these on for size, I'd forgotten what a terrific singles band these guys really were.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yndjq8CJ4uE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIlR2fFXM8&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j3_DUqKyTk&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFf7FVICbE4&feature=related

[binnie]

Wasn't this the band that Stuart Anderson formed after The Skids?

Sort of celtic punk if memory serves.....

Correction: I confused them with Big Country. It is also Stuart Adamson.

[Nitro Express]

More accurately, they were like a poorer man's U2

Great description of them. The vibe is there but they are lacking the interesting elements and even the passion U2 had.

[FORD]

Correction: I confused them with Big Country. It is also Stuart Adamson.

Oddly enough though, there was a recent Big Country "reunion" tour, with Mike Peters of The Alarm filling in for the late Adamson.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2LiIbGFRp0

[FORD]

The U2 comparisons is probably what kept the band from getting the respect they deserved, at least in the States. I never looked at them like that at all (as opposed to Simple Minds and a few other bands long forgotten).

Is it the ORIGINAL Alarm doing the anniversary tour, or the more recent lineup with Mike Peters and the hired guns?

[Seshmeister]

It's the anniversary tour.

I hardly recognise any of their stuff. I had a very narrow music taste in the 80s... :)

[Nitro Express]

The U2 comparisons is probably what kept the band from getting the respect they deserved, at least in the States. I never looked at them like that at all (as opposed to Simple Minds and a few other bands long forgotten).

Is it the ORIGINAL Alarm doing the anniversary tour, or the more recent lineup with Mike Peters and the hired guns?

U2 had good catchy songs that were different. They had lots of videos on MTV. They were good live with Live at Red Rocks being a well known concert. U2 had everything and that is why they were better known than other like bands. Bono could work the audience.

[Nitro Express]

The first time I saw a punk was in London in 1978. We had just come in from mainland Europe. What struck me odd was in Austria and Switzerland there were no young people. Even in Paris it seemed like I was one of the few there. In Italy there were more younger people. When we got to the UK there were finally more young people and teens. They all seemed pretty pissed and rebellious. It was the typical punk thing going on and Pic a Dilly at night was quite interesting to say the least. It made the rest of Europe look boring and sane.

[Seshmeister]

I think there is an argument that punk came from NYC initially but London was close on the heels.

All a little before my time and by the time I was a rebellious teenager my punk pal seemed to spend all his time writing 'Punk is not DEAD' on things.

Of course if it wasn't then he wouldn't have had to.

It's funny looking at how short a time it was between people being genuinely shocked by punks until every TV advert for a bank had a guy with a mohican hairstyle in the queue for the ATM.

Roth never said it better than when he said that music categories are all about hair and shoes. Be interesting to see the demographic tonight...

[Seshmeister]

Assuming we make it.

This is the woman that I had to watch spend 2 hours at the hairdressers plus another 4 hours getting ready to go to a Rush gig the other week.

[SunisinuS]

Assuming we make it.

This is the woman that I had to watch spend 2 hours at the hairdressers plus another 4 hours getting ready to go to a Rush gig the other week.

Comedy.

I like the kinda woman that kin pull my truck out of the mud.

:baaa:

[FORD]

Not too many people (at least in the US) are aware that The Alarm recorded an album in the late 70's under the name Seventeen. They named themselves after the Sex Pistols song, but this incarnation of the band wasn't so much punk as they were a throwback to 60's "mod" pop music reminiscent of the early Who, Kinks, or Small Faces.

I'm not sure if the entire album was even released back then, but they did at least put this single out......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQzpJipL_k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CrCEoQgOPM

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDNvWDV7eTU

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYgPUijGG4

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVITxhJ3Vs

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzqFfmaeMw

[FORD]

I can't believe this song never made it onto Beavis & Butthead....... FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-38UzrqEM

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iylGrePc0Tc

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvki1blQOzc