Some would argue that at 45 you are too old to be starting a revolution, especially in music, but this morning 45-year-old rocker Michael L Peters appeared on UK Breakfast TV talking about precisely that ...

The members of the latest incarnation of the ALaRM are back in the headlines, with their respective pasts in The Mission UK, the Cult, Gene Loves Jezebel, Generation-X and Stiff Little Fingers, because they have released a fantastic record upon a world where image now matters so much that they had to pretend to be a bunch of teenage pop punksters with their first release. It Worked !!! The ALaRM 2K4 found themselves at number 28 in the UK Singles Charts and being played by DJs who would not have even picked up a record had it said the words The ALaRM on the front. The name they gave the project The Poppy Fields had enough of a connection to the collective past for their fans to know what was going on and in truth they help a great deal in foisting this new song "45-RPM" into chart territory, but the point was made and the world listened, with the story appearing in all the major newspapers and TV News Channels, including CBS Evening News in the US. Could it be that the record buying public are ready for change ??? The answer seems to be an immense resounding yes...

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