The Alarm - A New South Wales

[starkresistant]

what the fuck! I have to analyze this shit for school! damn !

[Kwales66]

Brilliant

[yippitydodah]

I visioned my own daughter old towards the end of 21st century, in an ultra technological small grandparents house for the end of her life, and her grandaughter visiting her, with a great-granddaughter, produced still looking like her great-great grandad, and having that same young attitude to life - fuck them, on her old lap. Yes, visioned living on the south-east coast of Pembrokshire, circa 2080. Visioned a Viking boat coming on coast too AD680, genes more planted....

watch?v=Y54ABqSOScQ

[yippitydodah]

@yippitydodah AD680, asked for fresh water for longboated his men under, gladly gave, and friends were made, and son-in-law became, and how the seed was spread for natural health.

[yippitydodah]

might have been a good idea to have the lead singer and the pianist and the choir only, with the rest of the lads sitting on seats by the ways? Just a thought, but hindsight is easy, isn't it? They do look a bit naffe plucking strings.

[yippitydodah]

@yippitydodah

"by the ways" is where colliers ate their food on breaks, away from the scream of sprakes and coal filled cable drawn drams full of coal passing by on the route to up to the screens and washery up top.

[peejay67]

@Irish Martin Thanks Martin, im trying every avenue I can. I agree - the song is stunning, I remember buying it back then too. I cant think of a more fitting tribute. If you can spread the word, and try and get people to go to the facebook page to click "like" it will be a help. Thanks for your support

[tube2007rhw]

@peejay67 Have you thought of A Facebook group

[peejay67]

@tube2007rhw Hi yes I have started a facebook page - Rerelease A New South Wales please try and get as much support as you can

PJ

[peejay67]

I am trying to get this song rereleased in aid of the families of the Gleision miners. If you support the idea please go to the Facebook page Rerelease a new south Wales and like the page. If anyone has any contacts with the band or their record company please contact me : pete Jenkins 07746304376

Thank you

[IrishMartin]

@peejay67 Fair play to you pal i hope you succeed. I remember when this song was first released i was stunned by its beauty, when it crawled into the charts at number 38, i knew it was time to stop taking the top 40 seriously. God bless the 4, a breed of men who said "no" to the desolate Thatcher.

[gavindrobac]

Stunning song, on such a sad sad day. Rip guys

[OldEng1ish]

Seen the Alarm a fair few times back in the day....... Whole communities destroyed by unemployment, drugs, crime & poverty, Tory Scum!! Get on your bike & find work!! Never forget!! very powerful song.

[1953sparks]

i come from a long line of welsh miners , my great grandfather and my grandfather done their time down that deep dark pit , our generation has it a little easier these days , but i love this song , gives me a grounding and makes me appreciate what we have as young welsh males

[burningthunder19]

This is REAL music.

[gakkg]

Love this song wish they had sung it at the Glasgow gig last week

[drachenlady1976]

When I first listened to this wonderful song my english wasn`t too good and because of that I wasn`t able to find out the name of the song OR the group - nearly 15 years later a friend of mine had a tape at home - with himself playing the piano as guest player in a small pub in Germany - I nearly freaked out and jumped like the Teenager I had been when I first listened to the song - and until now I get emotional while listening to it.

[pilipalod]

There is no probably about it. This was definitely the Wogan show with Joanna Lumley temporarily hosting it. The reason I am so absolutely certain is that I am one of the people singing. Thanks for posting this. It brings back memories.

[burningthunder19]

@pilipalod thank you so much for singing on it! changing the world!

[lewisnigel1]

AWesome

[BUFFALOBOT]

i still remember the mines being shut .kill all tory scum

[drubhoy]

awesome.....simply just awesome......

[pjbropjbro]

John4 .

[pjbropjbro]

The Rose and the dragon ,

The red dragon and the white dragon,

The Victory goes to the righteous ,

The roses stand with the righteous,

We are one of the same .

But so are the roses of the white dragon.

[BUFFALOBOT]

hope thatcher dies a slow and painfull death the horrible bitch

[tranmer3]

thatchers dying!!!! YEEEEHAAAA :---->)

[bluemoon61393]

yeah lovin this

[BUFFALOBOT]

saw this at the time and since then loved them

[welshcanadian1]

'the charter that would save their sons' I wonder what the Chartists would have thought of Blair and Brown. A war mongerer and a serial fantasist who believed he saved the world...

[welshcanadian1]

I'm originally from Wales but now live in Canada. I sing this to myself from time to time to remind me of home. I'm lucky enough to have seen Mike Peters perform at Caerphilly Castle and at Blackwood 'Stute. Absolute class

[kemathenga]

like so many of your I heard this song in 1989 on the radio - and never forgot it again. Love to find it here now.

[TheItchyFetus]

LOL! I live in New South Wales.... Australia

[gregglesmegma]

@TheItchyFetus me too hello fellow blue nsw man

[kraxus03]

Finally...its taken me years to remember what this was called and to find it on Youtube !!

I remember when it first came out but it popped into my head a few years back..I only remembered the choir part, which is probablyh what made it harder to find.

[cymrutad]

fantastic grew up listening to this and all the stories from nantgarw and gelligaer pits in south wales

[yuryiodizadebee]

the song obviously didn't inspire the host joanne lumley to take up cause for south wales she went and fought for another mans cause and saved the gurkas.

[maromma]

my dad used to play this to me all the time. He bought their whole album for this one song :) .... gotta love it!

[Chonoryokusha]

@maromma

So did I.

[maromma]

@Chonoryokusha ha ha!

does anybody listen to the rest of the album. I've never heard another song ;)

[Chonoryokusha]

I don't think so; to me, it was always about this one, particular, very beautiful and very haunting song.

PS: I suspect your dad's about my age, then...

[daz70den]

are you listening maggie??? proud people fighting for their jobs... united we stand

[iand61]

loved this when it first came out

sounds even better now

even though i have no Welsh connection i come from an area with a strong mining history and family members who spent years down the pit.

not getting top 30 shows that the charts where as crap then as they are now

[daz70den]

i grew up in south yorkshire where the pits were crucial to my family..thay closed in 92 leaving an entire community in turmoil..hats off to mike and the gang for highlighting the disaster.. brill song to bring it home to the `miners sons`...

[snorresvei18b]

This song is fantastic and so fuc.... beautiful;P

[lprees1968]

Just a great song, a couple of beers in me, and i remember standing on the picket lines aged 12 in Abernant with my dad. Amazing voice. Mike you've still got it mate. Full of Hwyl!!!

Love to hear mike sing with the levellers!

[drachenlady1976]

wonderful song :-)

[schouk]

Saw the Alarm play live in Narberth Village Hall and this track just left me speechless. A long was to go to see them live from Coventry but class none the less

[berlinmitte10117]

Fantastic

[dbeefy]

Wicked! My grandad Ray Landry was the secretary and member of the Morriston Orpheus Choir at this time and sang with the Alarm a lot. So cool to see this on youtube. Great is the need for a new south wales, are you listening?

[nigiethomas]

SPINE CHILLING SONG AWSUM FAIR PLAY

[ASPWATTERSON]

MIke Peters is doing the Rhondda Rocks climb tomorrow from ABERDARE - go to the LHSF site on a Google search. Also Snowdon on 4th July, with concerts after both climbs for cancer charity. Andi

[traveller410]

I remember this song aired in 1989 on the italian music channel called Videomusic, they were airing it over and over again and I loved it, and still today gets me emotional!

[callumovclyne01]

i sang this song in my assembily

[thisishell]

welsh music is a sorry fucking state today. Shit like the sterophonics, kids in glass houses, funeral for a friend and the fucking lostprophets and to think we used to produce bands like this and the manics before they too went tits up. Lyric wise there aint much about that can top this. Michael peters is a legend

[IrishMartin]

Fucking hell yer right, this song destroys me, but in a good way.

[lprees1968]

Still a song that brings a tear to my eye, The choir just work so well with Mike, genius, total genius.

[Ginatheroma]

One of the most Classic song to

be produced

A fantastic song

The Welch choir are

Fantastic

as the Alarm still are.

Would love to see them

live again.

[mufcjd]

The band all went to school in North Wales and I know Mike and Eddie are definetly Welsh. Mike still lives locally and I see him quite often, what a great down to earth nice guy.

[richardltodd]

Shame that only one of them is actually Welsh. How authentic - lechyd da!

[CHIMPLICKER]

Mike Peters and Eddie MacDonald were Welsh, that's 2 ;-)

[unsafe68]

As lyrically relevant a song now as it was then. Absolutely brilliant.

[kenttaylor333]

I have been searching and now i have found top draw last herd live in manchester years ago.

[arencraig]

Saw them in Cleveland in 1990 or 1991. Only about 50 people showed up, but they still came out and gave 100%.

After the band finished playing, the lights came on and the crowd started to leave. A small group of 10 to 12 people standing in the front refused to leave and kept cheering for more. After about five minutes, nearly everyone but the employees had left, but the band came back out anyway and played about five more songs just for our tiny group. Awesome show!

[IrishMartin]

That story breaks my heart. I was astonished when i first heard this record, it limped into the top 40 at 38, it was then i realised the charts can fuck off, when you think of awful acts like Westlife getting numerous no 1's it doesnt mean shit. This record is a work of art and the message behind it brings tears to the eyes.

God bless the decent Welsh.

[thisishell]

This kind of music puts all these so called new welsh bands off the fuckin page.Lostprophets,funeral for a friend,stereophonics, even the manics...sit up and admire the best band ever to come out of wales...the mighty ALARM!

[JAYLEEYATES]

CORRECT THE MIGHTY ALARM

[IrishMartin]

No mate he's as welsh as you, he's singing about the closure of the pits and how Wales was screwed by the government.

[chazz1966]

Just fantastic,never thought i would see this again,what a great post,thankyou.

[Wobgoblin]

Wow. Just wow.

[mdbmdbmvc]

The Choir is the Morriston Orpheus Choir directed by Alwyn Humphreys

[IrishMartin]

Jesus mother. This song makes me weep. Fucking spellbinding. Celtic defiance.

[cymro1975]

and they are still raping my fair country. of all our natural resources coal water and gas from milford haven. who says we can't survive on our own ....independence !

[IrishMartin]

Good for you pal! They did it to us all. And still they have Ulster.

[mmbrittingham]

who is the piano player?

[fattyfattybumbum1]

steve jones.... another Welshman!!

[hairybub]

Awesome. Have been looking for this songs for ages! Thanks for putting this on.

[kevin2007male]

makes you want to cry if you are a welshman and worked in the pits.fantastic singer

[lockwyn]

Beautiful!

[DooBeeDoo72]

Truly truly beautiful!!! One of the most underrated bands of all time :/

[leedel20]

The tories will never be in Government, that were truly vile, the youth training scheme.

thanks for this song.

[musicmaker1999]

didnt think id find this song ty a beautiful song by a very passionate singer bravo

[kedwil]

had the pleasure of seeing the alarm supporting queen at wembley back in 86. AWESOME

[mgf23]

you really can find anything on youtube!

[wrayboy]

outstanding moved me to tears

[dapperdrdan]

Wow .. I have tried to listen to this since 1989 when I heard it on Sky Music TV

Thanks for this D: