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The Song Remains: Mike Peters (1959-2025)

June 17, 2025 Dean Nardi 2
“Musicians start out thinking they’re going to change the world when really it’s the people who make the change. The music just provokes the reaction.” – Mike Peters. Most people who knew anything about Mike Peters […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Mike Peters & The Alarm “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”

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This was not my intended choice for this feature. Rest assured, there have been many splendid eulogies following the death of Mike Peters, and I will not even try to compete. But since the news of […]
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The First Time: Alasdair Fotheringham – The Alarm + Kissing Bandits + Mercenary Skank (Exeter University, 24th January 1984)

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Warning to all The Alarm fans so they can stop reading this now – I didn’t enjoy their part of this gig at all. But weird as it sounds, no matter how disappointing (to me) the […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 1
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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