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Michael Leslie Peters (25 February 1959 – 29 April 2025) was a Welsh musician, best known as the lead vocalist of
the Alarm The Alarm are a Welsh rock band that formed in Rhyl, Wales in 1981. Initially formed as a punk band, the Toilets, in 1977 under lead vocalist Mike Peters, the group soon embraced arena rock and included marked influences from Welsh language ...
. After the band broke up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, before revamping the Alarm in 2000. Additionally, he was co-founder of the
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Foundation. Between 2011 and 2013, Peters was the lead vocalist for
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as well as the Alarm. He was appointed a
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(MBE) in the
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for services to cancer care.


Early life

Peters was born at Chatsworth House in
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,
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in North Wales, on 25 February 1959,
and grew up living at the Crescent Hotel on Edward Henry Street,
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, with former the Alarm band member Eddie MacDonald. The name of the street became the inspiration for a track on the album of the same name, released as part of ''The Poppyfields Bond'' of albums. On "Edward Henry Street", Peters describes his life growing up in Wales. Peters' first job was a computer operator for
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. He worked on an old
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.


Musical career


1970s

Peters' musical debut was on 10 October 1975, when he fronted Hairy Hippie (named by the disc jockey James Alexander Barr), a band formed with his schoolmates to perform at his sister's 21st birthday party at the Talardy Hotel in
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. The first song performed that night was a
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of "
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" by Smokie. His first proper band was the Toilets, formed after he saw the
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play at
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in 1976. The first song the Toilets played live was "Nothing to Do" at the Palace Hotel in Rhyl. Peters, along with MacDonald, Dave Sharp and Nigel Twist (then called Nigel Buckle), formed a band called Seventeen in 1978. The first song Seventeen played was "Pop Generation" at the Bee (now Station) Hotel in Rhyl on 27 May 1978. One single was released in 1979 on the Vendetta
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titled "Don't Let Go".


1980s

In 1981, the Alarm was formed and they moved to London to tour the club circuit. They were signed by the
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label. The band took their name from a song named Alarm Alarm, that was one of the first songs written by Peters for the Toilets. On
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,
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commented that with
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,
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and now Alarm Alarm perhaps he should call himself John Peel John Peel, so the name was shortened to the Alarm. The Alarm played their first gig in the Victoria Hotel in Prestatyn on 10 June 1981. "Shout to the Devil" was the first song to be played. Peters wrote the song that day and as it suited the three
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and drumkit line-up, the band used to rehearse it during the soundcheck. Their first single on their own label, "Unsafe Building", was released in November 1981.


1990s

In 1991 the Alarm broke up after Peters left the band on stage at the
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. MPO (Mike Peters Organisation) was formed in 1992 as Peters used the internet to communicate with his fan] base. The original members of the Alarm have only reunited once. This was for the
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series ''
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'' on 28 October 2003. Two singles were released in 1994. "Back into the System", which also included a Welsh release of the single. This was followed by "It Just Don't Get Any Better Than This". Peters teamed up with the Poets for both records. The single also included a first release of the track "White Noise" which Peters re-recorded for the album ''Rise''. The American release also included a re-mix. It would be a further year before Peters released his first solo album venture '' Breathe''. Being a UK-only release, the CD version of the album did not contain Peters' first two solo singles. An acoustic-only version of the same album was also released. By now, Peters had retreated into the internet and had his own website, where most of his future releases would be sold. After having been diagnosed with cancer in 1995, Peters released his second solo venture ''Feel Free''. The album included a take on
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's influential
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track " The Message". The American release of ''Feel Free'' also included a special hidden track called "Gone Elvis". In 1998, ''
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'' was released, to a wider audience this time. ''Rise'' was a change of musical direction for Peters. "White Noise Part II" found Peters experimenting with studio sound manipulation and drum machines, whereas "My Calling" featured Peters' signature acoustic/electric roots-rock sound. The album also featured the song "In Circles", which Peters co-wrote with
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guitarist
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. Peters followed up the release of ''Rise'' by touring the U.S. under "The Interactive Acoustic Works U.S. Tour", which started in Boston on 10 October 1998. That year also saw the release of the album ''Live (From a Broadcast)''. This set included a version of the Alarm's best known song, "
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", which reinstated an extra verse that the band had trimmed out early in the writing process. In 1999 Peters again worked with Billy Duffy, forming a band called Coloursound with Duffy, Duffy's former Cult bandmate Scott Garret, and Craig Adams (formerly of the Mission). They recorded one
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ous studio album. From 1993 onwards, Peters held an annual weekend event called "The Gathering" at
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. It was attended by various guest musicians, including former Alarm band members.


2000–2025

The new millennium saw Peters release ''Flesh and Blood'', based on the stage play of the same name written by
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. In 2000, Peters decided to reuse the Alarm brand name. After he left the band in 1991, Peters had signed over rights to the name to the other band members. This caused former drummer Nigel Twist to threaten to sue. Peters thereafter used the Alarm brand name, sometimes with added Roman numerals for the year. In 2001, Peters went on the road again as part of supergroup
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. Featuring
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(of the Mighty Wah!),
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(former
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),
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( the Damned), and
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(
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), the band played a mixture of old and new material spanning their combined careers. In 2004, Peters released the single " 45 RPM" using the pseudonym
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, using the guise that this band was a teenage band based from
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. (This hoax was the source of the subject of the movie ''
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''.) Peters came eleventh in an online poll to find
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. He joined members of
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in 2010 to perform songs of
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under the name Los Mondo Bongo. In 2011, Peters joined
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for their UK tour and released a single with the band that August, titled "Another Country", followed in April 2013 by the album ''
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''. On 9 November 2013, it was announced via the Big Country Facebook page that Peters had departed the band.


Musical influences

Peters stated various artists had had an influence on his musical direction. In "Edward Henry Street" of the album with the same name, Peters sings ''"bought
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from Greaves Records"'' in reference to the song by
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.
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was also an influence.


Personal life

In 1986, in the middle of the height of the fame of the Alarm, whilst based in
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during the week, Peters was still living with his parents in Rhyl. Having hitch-hiked home one weekend, he met his future wife, Jules, then an undergraduate student at
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studying English. The couple were engaged two weeks later, and had two sons, both conceived through
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. The family lived in
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,
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. He was a regular member of the running group the NightCrawlers, who run every Thursday night around various locations in the North East Wales area. Peters was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of
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in December 2008. He was appointed
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(MBE) in the
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for services to cancer care.


Illness and death

Peters battled cancer for three decades. He was first diagnosed with
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in 1995. In 1996, Peters made a recovery from lymph cancer,and began
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and touring again, sometimes with members of the re-formed band. He also presented a regular show called ''Bedrock'' on
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. In 2005, he discovered that he was suffering from chronic lymphocytic
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. At this time, he co-founded the
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Foundation with fellow leukaemia patient
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, the president of CSI Entertainment in
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,
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. After going into remission he appeared in a documentary for
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chronicling his battle with cancer. The documentary was released in 2006 as ''Mike Peters on the Road to Recovery'' with some of the proceeds being donated to his foundation. In October 2007, Peters, along with 38 other musicians, cancer survivors and supporters, made a 14-day trek to the
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base camp to perform the highest concert ever on land to raise awareness and money to fight cancer. Other musicians included
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and Jamie West-Oram of
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,
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of Squeeze,
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of
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and
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. In 2011, Love Hope Strength Foundation released the film ''More to Live For'', intended to promote the importance of bone marrow donation in saving the lives of cancer victims. In September 2022, he announced that his
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(CLL) had returned, and he was being treated with chemotherapy at the North Wales Cancer Centre. In September 2024, Peters was reported to be in remission from Richter's Syndrome following a clinical trial at the
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, Manchester. In December 2024, he reported that he had not been able to achieve complete remission and undertook chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in early 2025. Peters died from the illness on 29 April 2025, at the age of 66. His
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was held on 29 May 2025 in his hometown of
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. A musical tribute was screened in Peters' honour in the village square, before the funeral service was held the Parish Church of St Bridget and St Cwyfan. The service was attended by 150 invited guests, with around 2,000 fans watching outside the church on a large screen.


Discography


Albums


Singles


Promotional recordings


Filmography


Videos


DVDS


References


External links


Official Alarm website
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