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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 ...