Artist Wiki - all about artists


The Alarm
The Alarm pictures
The Alarm biography
The Alarm songs
The Alarm albums

The Alarm is tagged as: 80s, rock, alternative, new wave, welsh

The Alarm is an alternative rock band which formed in 1978 in Rhyl, Wales. For most of their career the band consisted of Mike Peters (vocals, guitar), Dave Sharp (guitar), Eddie Macdonald (bass) and Nigel Twist (drums). The band split in 1991, but reunited in 2001.
The band began in 1978 in the North-Wales town of Rhyl, under the name of ‘Seventeen’. Its 4 members were Mike Peters, Dave Sharp, Eddie Macdonald and Nigel Twist. They knocked around the music scene for a while with little success and reformed as ‘Alarm Alarm’ (taken from one of Seventeen’s songs) in 1981. Then revered BBC DJ John Peel compared them to Duran Duran and Talk Talk and they quickly changed their name to ‘The Alarm’. With the change of their name, came a change of location. The Alarm moved to London and shared a small flat in the city to save money for their first single, ‘Unsafe Building’ b/w ‘Up For Murder’. They came to the attention of U2 in ‘82 and toured with them as their support band (they frequently reprised that role). In 1983, ‘Sixty-eight Guns’ was released. It became their biggest hit, propelling them to #17 in the charts, and they appeared on Top of The Pops for the first and last time. Throughout the deca...
Read More About The Alarm Biography...

Send The Alarm ringtones to your cell

Top 10 The Alarm Songs
Rain In The Summertime
The Stand
Sixty Eight Guns
68 Guns
Strength
Spirit Of '76
Absolute Reality
Rescue Me
Blaze Of Glory
Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?
More The Alarm Songs
Top 10 The Alarm Albums
Standards
The Best Of...
Declaration
Strength
Eye Of The Hurricane
Change
In the Poppy Fields
Live In The Poppy Fields
The Best of the Alarm
21
More The Alarm Albums
Similar Artists
Mike PetersMike Peters
Big CountryBig Country
The FixxThe Fixx
The Icicle WorksThe Icicle Works
The CallThe Call
Big Audio DynamiteBig Audio Dynamite
Simple MindsSimple Minds
soul seven;kim wilson / jeffrey wright;bill sims, jr. / g-funk / master.p / aicelle santos / gretchen barreto / soldiers of fortune / spectrals / grupo salvaje / congotronics vs rockers
Copyright © ArtistWiki.com 2009 - 2022 - All Rights Reserved 0.004 - privacy policies | contact