New Alarm Tour Dates!!!

After a quiet year on The Alarm front 2013 is looking good already! Not only do we kick the year off with The Gathering but we have a full band tour starting in February with tickets going on sale this Friday (19th October).

The dates we know so far are....

28th February 2013 - BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
2nd March 2013 - LIVERPOOL O2 Academy 2
3rd March 2013 - SHEFFIELD O2 Academy 2
6th March 2013 - NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
7th March 2013 - OXFORD O2 Academy 2
8th March 2013 - LEICESTER O2 Academy 2
10th March 2013 - LEEDS O2 Academy
13th March 2013 - BRISTOL O2 Academy
14th March 2013 - BIRMIMGHAM O2 Academy 2
15th March 2013 - LONDON Islington O2 Academy

More dates as we get them, be sure to check out The Alarm site for the official announcement in the coming day or so.....we will be at Islington - See you there!

James solo album update....

We couldn't wait for more info on James' upcoming solo album so we asked him for some more info to whet our appetites!

"All I can say is it's turning out better than I ever could have dreamed - mostly because producer Pete Walsh is a genius and fantastic contributions from Glen Matlock, Steve Norman, Pete Rizzo, Geoff Dugmore, Chris Bell, Criag Adams, Barriemore Barlow, Maggi Ronson, Tracie Hunter, Elizabeth Westwood and of course Mark Taylor who relentlessly kicked me up the ass to do it!"

Now if that doesn't get you excited I don't know what will!

James names solo album!

The Gene Loves Jezebel site has reported that James has been in the studio finishing his much anticipated solo album tentatively named "Everything Is Closer To Being Over". More details such as track listing, personnel and the ever important release date when we can!

New Mike Peters Festival Date & Big Country do Hogmanay!

A couple of new dates for your diary.....

Big Country send the year out with a bang with a Hogmanay gig at the Red Hot Highland Fling in Inverness. This will be a free event and will feature the new line up which has Derek Forbes taking over the bass duties.

Then looking ahead to next year we have a Mike Peters solo date (by the look of things) at the Nantwich Jazz Blues & Music Festival which takes place over the Easter Weekend 28th March - 1st April 2013. A tentative line up includes Mike, The Blockheads, Marc Almond, Sad Cafe, Shakatak and Jive Aces. More info as we get it but for now you can check out the site at http://www.nantwichjazz.com/

More dates added to the Red Poppy Tour.

Just in case anyone missed this announcement Mike has added a further five dates to the solo Red Poppy Tour which now also features Joe Silva as special guest on all dates.

The new dates are...

NOVEMBER
1st Central Station WREXHAM
3rd The Electric Circus EDINBURGH
4th King Tuts GLASGOW
22nd Park & Dare Theatre TREORCHY, RHONDDA
24th The Leopard DONCASTER

These join the previously announced dates that you can find in full here http://www.inthepoppyfields.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/red-poppy-tour-datesofficial.html

as well as the previously added date in CHESTER on the 20th November at Telford's Warehouse.

Grab your tickets now!

Joe Silva confirms support slot for Mike Peters Tour.

Mike & Joe

Joe Silva has announced he will be supporting Mike Peters on the Red Poppy Tour this November, as if you needed another reason to get tickets to see Mike do an acoustic tour!

Full dates can be found elsewhere on this site....we will both be at London, hope to see some of you there!

The Cult...The Mission...The Alarm?

Rumours are starting to spread tonight that The Alarm may be set to replace Killing Joke for the imminent Cult & Mission dates. At the moment these are rumours and by no means should you take this as official or something that will happen so do NOT get those tickets just yet unless you want to see 2 brilliant bands of course! There are lots of things that could support the rumour....Craig and Billy Duffy for example however this would mean Craig doing back to back sets which has been done before but it is certainly not the norm. So will we see Mike or the full band at these shows if it happens?

OUR ADVICE IS MONITOR ALL OFFICIAL SITES AND TWITTER/FACEBOOK FEEDS and be prepared to act fast! Ticketmaster has removed Killing Joke from the listings but currently only have The Cult & The Mission listed.

Please take this as it is intended...IT IS A RUMOUR...but if it happens you will want to be there!

Snowdon Rocks 6 Photos

Here are a selection of photos taken by both myself (Rob) and Joff. Snowdon was a brilliant experience despite the awful weather and I would recommend anyone to do it at least once. The turnout was amazing and it was nice to meet so many great people. I am sad to say I didn't make the summit as I suffered a funny turn at about the three quarter way mark where my lips turned purple and I couldn't go more than a few steps without stopping to catch my breath, many thanks to Stefanie Silverly and Sara Diana Williams and her hubby for helping me out during this time. Making the decision to turn back was one of the hardest things I have done but I think it was totally the right one, I was disappointed and upset but I am proud in what I did accomplish. After taking it really slowly back to the halfway point I actually really enjoyed the walk down. Joff went on to make the top so a massive well done to him and to all our fellow walkers that achieved their goal.

All Just Giving pages remain open for the next month so if you would like to donate to any of the walkers individual pages then please do so or directly to Love Hope Strength Foundation themselves.

Joff http://www.justgiving.com/Joff-Northfield
Rob www.justgiving.com/inthepoppyfields

Snowdon Rocks 6 video

Here is the start of the Snowdon Rocks 6 event from Sunday 19th August 2012 with Mike & friends performing "Love Hope And Strength" at the assembly point. The weather wasn't kind as we went up the mountain so this is the best video taken on the day by Joff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5YNGRsE70o&feature=channel&list=UL

Ben Nevis Rocks band line up announced

The band that will play at the Ben Nevis Rocks concert on Friday 24th August has been confirmed as a Celtic Supergroup that features....

Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Smiley all from The Alarm of course! Bruce & Jamie Watson from Big Country and former Simple Mind Derek Forbes.

Tickets are £20 and are on sale now direct from the LHS store http://www.lovehopestrength.co.uk/