"Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry"
Remembering Mike Peters , Born today 25th February 1959
"A new south Wales" - The Alarm featuring the Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir
Mike laments the demise of coal mines in south Wales.
'Should have been the Alarm's "Bohemian rhapsody" but unfortunately it will probably be remembered as their "Birdie song",' opined Record Mirror.
The Alarm use emotive language and imagery, waxing nostalgic about the coal industry. Perhaps they're not considering how society don't want to be burning coal for longer than we must. [1/2]
In 1884 drukten arbeiders in Chicago hun eigen krant: The Alarm.
Een blad tegen ongelijkheid, loononderdrukking en staatsgeweld — en vóór solidariteit en zelforganisatie.
Ruim 140 jaar later blijft de vraag actueel: wie mag spreken, en wie wordt het zwijgen opgelegd?
Vrije informatie is geen luxe, maar noodzaak.
#TheAlarm #Chicago #Arbeidersstrijd #Persvrijheid #Solidariteit #Geschiedenis #Vrijheid
https://vrheid.substack.com/p/the-alarm-een-krant-als-lont-in-het
The Alarm ontstond in 1884 in Chicago als radicale arbeiderskrant. Het blad gaf stem aan anarcho-syndicalisten, pleitte voor directe actie en werd na de Haymarket-affaire het symbool van strijd, repressie en persvrijheid binnen de arbeidersbeweging.
The Alarm, Change, 1989 on I.R.S. Records
We recently lost Mike Peters of The Alarm, after a 30 year battle with cancer. He also had a lengthy solo career following the band’s breakup in the early 90s, and founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation.
This album was their penultimate with the original lineup, and has NID YN CYMRU AR WERTH carved into the runout (“Wales is not for sale”). They also released simultaneously a version in Welsh called Newid.
My copy—via Vinyl Destination in Lowell MA—is a US pressing from 1989. The cover is die cut (ALARM on the front, CHANGE on the back) such that the inner lyrics sheet (which wraps around the printer inner) shows through.
#1980s #IRSRecords #LoveHopeStrengthFoundation #LowellMA #MikePeters #Newid #TheAlarm #vinyl #VinylDestination #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
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