They did a 30th Anniversary show at UCLA last year to commemorate the oriinal broadcast. I guess it was the first worldwide live broadcast of a rock concert or something.
http://thealarm.com/24-hours-to-ucla-30th-anniversary/
I never bought any of the reissues. I'm pretty happy with all the original CDs. Mike Peters has done a good job of keeping the franchise going, but he releases WAY too much stuff for me to even try to keep up with, and also does far too many live events to keep up with. I have a friend who's a completist Marillion and The Alarm fan. Both bands keep him busy! I saw The Alarm on the Strength tour in a gym at Ithaca college. It was a great show! Lone Justice opened for them. Yeah, The Alarm did have a U2 junior vibe, but I actually got a lot more mileage out of them than U2. I liked the sort of Woody Guthrie/Neil Young vein they had running through their music. Mike Peters is a good story teller too.
Bookmarks