I was a huge Alarm fan throughout my teenage years 83 onwards and to my shame fell away a bit in my mid 20s. Listening to this and other songs takes me back and reminds me how damn good they were/are and has rekindled my love for them. So talented, so good ❤
@cliffordmarkland26246 жыл бұрын
My first live Alarm gig at Cardiff arms Park in 87, went to watch U2 but realized that The Alarm was my favourite band and still are Regards Cliff.
@dizzylizzysunflower5 жыл бұрын
Clifford Markland I saw the Alarm support U2 too 🙂
@elainekwok35954 жыл бұрын
Clifford Markland same when I saw The Who in 1983 but realized The Clash was actually my fav band
@johnny58052 жыл бұрын
Me too ! There were The Silencers and The Pretenders playing too ! It was like 6 hours of support bands in the blazing hot Cardiff sun ! And you had to hold your pi55 for all that time too.
@cliffordmarkland26242 жыл бұрын
@@johnny5805 off to Leeds tomorrow to watch the alarm 😄🇬🇧
@vKarl713 жыл бұрын
The song is based on a poem by Idris Davies, Welsh poet born in Rhymney. Pete Seeger set it to music.
@Alftupper334 Жыл бұрын
You don't say
@RonnieTheSim Жыл бұрын
This is genius. (Vantage point: I'm in North America and only just this second discovered this Welsh band. I suppose the McGuinn/Byrds version being *so* well known tends to bump newer arrangements down the search results, eh?) But what I want to say is: This is genius!
@debjohnson79973 жыл бұрын
Great, great grandfather, Enoch James, emigrated from Rhymney, Wales to Mayfield, Pa. (Mines in both locations).
@janinelowe65516 жыл бұрын
The Alarm are my favourite band since the early 80s. This video is excellent Janine XXX
@phillip01ish Жыл бұрын
Even though I love the Byrds' rendition that introduced me to this song as well as Pete Seeger's amazing performance of this, the song is about Welsh miners. How better than Welsh musicians to sing about this disaster? The pipes and drums evoke this tragedy. Although I adore all of these versions, I must say this is the best one.
@andrewwilliams39653 жыл бұрын
I lived 200 yards from the church in this song (Rhymney.)
@theeaselrider40326 жыл бұрын
That's the song! For years I've been trying figure out what that was. They played it one night many years ago when I saw them in Toronto and I haven't been able to figure out what it was until now. What a great song. Thanks!
@elainekwok35954 жыл бұрын
The Easel Rider Pete Seeger sang it but did not write it ; Jakob Dylan just sang it in the doc echo in the canyon I think the most popular rendition was the byrds
@vKarl713 жыл бұрын
@@elainekwok3595 Actually...Idris Davies, famous Welsh poet born in Rhymney, wrote the original poem, Pete Seeger set it to music (just as Schubert set existing poems by Goethe to music). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_Davies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bells_of_Rhymney
@darreng745 Жыл бұрын
@@elainekwok3595 Sadly Pete Seeger had no idea how to pronounce Rhymney and a generation of American artistes followed in his footsteps, this is how you pronounce the the place name.
@Neil20225 жыл бұрын
Mike hasn’t changed one bit. Humble, affable and a top guy.
@CaStW2 жыл бұрын
Awesome!👍👍👍
@wfl68873 жыл бұрын
Mike Peters is a good lad. Plus he’s a big red.
@user-kn2do4wq7b3 ай бұрын
From Newport n lovin this song
@cathyskywalker776 жыл бұрын
Saw them at Toad's Place in New Haven CT back in the mid 80s. Such a great band!!!! Love them!!! And used to have a crush on Dave 😊
@Reallaw-p8o4 жыл бұрын
superb
@davidbroom2162 Жыл бұрын
Re the pronunciation - let's not forget Idris Davies wrote it in rhyming couplets. So maybe he intended it to be pronounced "Rimney" (to rhyme with "give me"). Certainly makes sense musically. And Seeger pronounced it the same way - probably because he didn't know any differently! So there is also an argument that the boys are being faithful to Pete's version.
@joelhoward8211 Жыл бұрын
Gotta love that eighty's hair
@bjorntoulouse75235 жыл бұрын
There are some great versions of this but none can beat a Welsh band doing it.
@GatoWales4 жыл бұрын
Not when they pronounce Rhymney wrong lol
@bjorntoulouse75234 жыл бұрын
Gareth Owen - Oh yeah, never noticed before, but so do The Byrds, does any version pronounce it correctly?
@GatoWales4 жыл бұрын
@@bjorntoulouse7523 I think The Alarm do now when they perform it and Roger Mcguinn does, he apologised for it in a concert in Ebbw Vale lol
@liamr2549 Жыл бұрын
An amazing respectful performance .......look at the audience
@beatlesrutles Жыл бұрын
Ahhhh....now I remember why I had a massive crush on Dave Sharp when I was a teenager!!!!
@jonreynolds16553 жыл бұрын
Sorry for the long Intro ....but stay with it and enjoy the ALARM's version of the " The Bells of Rhymney" from the heart :-)
@Wolfington2 жыл бұрын
Good performance this. Mullet Central though.
@Alftupper334 Жыл бұрын
The most underrated band of the '80's
@rogerbelger2014 Жыл бұрын
no , that would be The Church . but yes- The Alarm was bigger than what most perceive
@Alftupper334 Жыл бұрын
@@rogerbelger2014 The Alarm were better than U2 but had no recognition. No idea who that band your warbling on about were.
@rogerbelger2014 Жыл бұрын
@@Alftupper334 I loved The Alarm. but U2 changed my life...'whos better than who' doesnt matter to me...plus mike and bono are friends - i think thats pretty cool
@paulwales28673 жыл бұрын
Terrible pronunciation of Rhymney, a y in Welsh sounds like a u in English, Rumney, not Rimney
@philldavies7940 Жыл бұрын
As they speak Welsh they would know that. I guess they are just following the mangling of the pronunciation that started with peter Seeger, then continued through the Byrds, john denver etc
@paulwales2867 Жыл бұрын
@@philldavies7940 Suppose so
@roostriccardo85143 жыл бұрын
😁👍🏴
@danbgt10 ай бұрын
I was in my 30’s in the 1980’s. That seemed to me, at the time, to be the decade when music in general began to go down the tubes. And I also thought, at the time, that hairstyles had surely completely deteriorated to the point of complete stupidity. I am 73 years old now and can honestly say that music and hairstyles have continued to deteriorate to the point where the 1980’s actually look and sound pretty good. I like this rendition of this song by the way. The hair? Well. We’ll just leave that to history.
@familydogg12347 ай бұрын
Hello Linda H!
@familydogg12347 ай бұрын
Must be from The Tube Englush TV show Jeff Beck Star Cycle us the theme song
@leedsboy645 жыл бұрын
that crowd is out of control
@mdmejia674 жыл бұрын
lol
@donhancock3324 жыл бұрын
Is this band from Liverpool?
@edwardchapman60033 жыл бұрын
Two from Prestatyn/Rhyl in North Wales and two from Manchester I believe.
@johnoreilly53562 жыл бұрын
Close enough
@russelhill97212 жыл бұрын
Rimney?
@DEOO1002 жыл бұрын
Good version but..it is pronounced RUM.NEY not RIM.NEY
@darreng745 Жыл бұрын
Depends if you live in Kardiff or in the valley doesn't it boyo?
@philldavies7940 Жыл бұрын
@@darreng745 No, its pronounced Rum-knee, not rim-knee, same as Rumney in Cardiff. you'd have thought mike peters would know that (even though he's a gog)
@cield39873 жыл бұрын
The drumming is banging, plunking, and stops the song. Maybe it's just their style. Otherwise love it.
@kingbrenin85823 жыл бұрын
4:21
@georgecrumb909915 күн бұрын
Just no no no on a million levels.
@johnhuwroberts7766 Жыл бұрын
As Valley boys you would have thought they would pronounce Rhymney correctly. Ruined it for me. Try RUM KNEE…..Bloody RIM knee!
@jonathanbennetts26322 жыл бұрын
Rhymney miss pronounced. Nice try though.
@grimupnorth2 жыл бұрын
Nice try, but the Byrds still hold the crown.
@beatlesrutles Жыл бұрын
Nahhh....the Byrds are American. These are true Welshmen!
@williamparker1085 Жыл бұрын
nice job though, interesting timing and harmony choices