THE ALARM'S PETERS FIGHTS BACK, MARCHES ON!

The Alarm founder/frontman Mike Peters is a two-time cancer survivor, and those battles fueled the urgency of the songs found on the current Guerilla Tactics, an album that is anything but covert: it is decidedly overt, in-your-face rock and roll, from beginning to end. "Being diagnosed with leukemia was a big driving force behind this record," Peters declares, "but it was in the post-diagnosis that this record took shape. It was in the area of recovery and reclaiming my life back. I needed to fight back and I needed an uptempo
soundtrack and that's where the song back from for Guerilla Tactics." When asked when he first was inspired to play rock and roll, Peters, without a second of hesitation, fired back, "October 1976 I saw the Sex Pistols. I stood right in front of Johnny Rotten - it woke something in me really important, they made you unafraid to have a go at being in a band and I'm forever grateful for that." Catch The Alarm, The Fixx and the English Beat Thursday in Saratoga, CA and Friday in San Francisco on the final two dates of the Rockin' The Colonies tour; go to www.thealarm.com for more information.