A SPECIAL concert will take place to mark 40 years since the release of The Alarm song Sixty Eight Guns.
Mike Peters will present The Alarm Acoustic in concert at The Red, Dyserth, on the anniversary date of Tuesday, September 12.
The Alarm’s classic Sixty Eight Guns was released as a seven-inch single, the most common form of the vinyl single.
Mike, of Dyserth, said: "It’s incredible to think that Sixty Eight Guns was released 40 years ago. At the band’s first official 40th Anniversary event celebrating our first gig in Prestatyn, there were only a handful of people directly involved at that original 1981 moment. With Sixty Eight Guns, every Alarm fan I have met remembers where they were when they first heard the song and 99 per cent of those in the UK, were at home glued to the TV in anticipation of the weekly broadcast of Top of The Pops when The Alarm burst out of the TV with an explosion of energy and of course – Hair!
"For us in the band it was the realisation of a dream and for those watching it has come to represent the beginning of a continual and shared journey with the band’s music as a soundtrack.
"Who would have thought so much would happen as a result of this cataclysmic event from 40 years ago.
"Sixty Eight Guns will never die."
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Tickets will be on sale at www.thealarm.com from Sunday, July 30 at 7pm UK. Tickets are limited and all who attend will receive a commemorative laminate in honour of the occasion.
The Sixty Eight Guns celebration concert will feature two acoustic performances with one of the performances dedicated to The Alarm’s first four singles / b-sides and 12-inch tracks and a total celebration of Sixty Eight Guns as the finale.
The Sixty Eight Guns celebration concert at The Red, with also feature a Big Night In Special TV recording session which will be presented by Mike's wife Jules along with very special guest Gareth ‘Gaz Top’ Jones and feature insights and stories about the timeline surrounding the Sixty Eight Guns single release and the moment The Alarm first appeared on Top of The Pops.
The Big Night In – Sixty Eight Guns Special will be broadcast on the band’s YouTube channel on September 22, which is the anniversary of the band’s first appearance on Top of the Pops.
In the countdown to the concert, The Twenty First Century Recording Company will be releasing all the first four original Alarm singles as digital editions with the original single versions and b-sides included. Each release will also feature the original single artwork, beginning with the release of Unsafe Building, (Tuesday, August 22), Marching On (Tuesday, August 29), The Stand (Tuesday, September 5), and Sixty Eight Guns on September 12.
All subsequent and following Alarm singles will all be released upon reaching their own 40th anniversary release dates continuing with Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? on January 9 2024 which coincides with the build up to the Gathering Cardiff on January 18, 19, 20 and 21 which will feature a full performance of 1984’s classic Declaration album.
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