The Alarm
Starting life as a punk act named The Toilets, then a mod group called
Seventeen, The Alarm went on to become the biggest Welsh band of the 1980s,
selling over 5 million records and touring with the likes of The Jam, Neil Young
and Bob Dylan. Rising out of the post-punk and new wave scene, they moved to
London from Rhyl, North Wales and built up an acclaimed live reputation as U2's
support act across Britain and America. Fronted by Mike Peters, they offered a
more polished, genteel approach to punk's anarchic energy, and scored
underground hits with early singles 68 Guns and The ...
