Never Let The Fires Die: The Alarm Podcast

Is "Marching On" the Quintessential Alarm Song? Also, hear a "lost" version of the song unearthed for (possibly) the first time.  In #29 of the Never Let The Fires Die Alarm podcast, we cover the song Marching On from the album Declaration

Watch the video version here:
Declaration Track 2: Marching On - #29 The Alarm: Never Let Fires Die Podcast (youtube.com)

 #28 in the Never Let The Fires Die Alarm podcast, we cover the song Declaration from the album Declaration We will be uploading more of Never Let The Fires Die 

See video version here: Declaration Track 1: Declaration - #28 The Alarm: Never Let Fires Die Podcast - YouTube

Our buddy, Mike Peters, of the Alarm, is not well. We have decided we want to send him a 2 hour get well soon by listing and discussing 68 (plus many more) reasons why we love him.

After a year break when there was no need for a podcast because The Alarm was basically podcasting 2 hours of content a week, we are back to discuss  the twin earthquakes that shook The Alarm world this week: War and Alarm Central. 

In this episode we review Hurricane Of Change: Upstream while comparing and contrasting with the 1989 Change album and thealarm.change.demos.  It's like high school English all-over again, but with a ton more great music and a bit of (bleeped) swearing becasue we are just that d*amned passionate about The Alarm's music.

In this episode we have a deep discussion about Mike Peters' 2019 release, Downstream, the first disc in the Hurricane Of Change Collection.  

Were the singles picked from the 80's albums by The Alarm the right choices?  Join us as we banter about things we can never change, and play a ton of music along the way.

An interview about the present, which is where the past and future meet.

Thanksgiving is the anniversary of our first  Alarm show (first concert ever) at Cal State Fullerton in November 1985.  In this episode we have a very personal discussion about what that show meant to us as teenagers.

In  this discussion we get a few things wrong.  It's been 34 years, not 33.  The show started with Deeside, not Declaration/Marching On, and we cannot confirm the band played The Chant.  The memory of the show has been some what corrupted over the years by listening to "live" tapes.  Speaking of "live" tapes, the music in this episode was taken from the following sketchy live bootlegs, chosen to closely approimate the band when wesaw the mthe first time.
-Gaumont Theatre, Southampton 18.12.85
-Marquee, London 16.10.85
-City Hall, Newcastle 13.12.85

Thanks to Pete Cole for providing the audio files, and to The Alarm , of course, for playing on them.

#001 The tour begins, or does it? Problems right at the start for The Alarm as transport issues thwart the band’s arrival in Nashville at the start of the Sigma Tour