A New South Wales first appeared on the Change album released on 18th September 1989. It was also released as a single on 23rd October 1989
A New South Wales was demoed during the 1987 Eye of the Hurricane Sessions
A song from the original Macdonald / Peters demo sessions, we recorded this version during the “Hurricane” sessions in Milton Keynes. We were going to add strings etc, but never got round to finishing it off – Mike Peters Alarm 2000 collection
Mike Peters and The Alarm were known throughout the world as an English speaking Welsh band with an enormous following, and their song ‘A New South Wales’, resonated most clearly with audiences at this time. Recorded in both English and Welsh – ‘A New South Wales’ / ‘Hwylio Dros Y Mor’, was recorded was produced by Tony Visconti (Bowie / T-Rex), with backing from the Morriston Orpheus on June 25th 1989 at the BBC Wales Studios, Cardiff and released as a Double A side single. This most enduring of Alarm songs, went on to be recognised as the first ever bilingual song to reach the UK Top 40 and, by pointing Wales’ past towards its future, signposted the way in which a new generation of Welsh artists could express themselves with a greater linguistic freedom. ‘A New South Wales’ was included at number 6 in a poll of Wales Greatest Songs as conducted and published by Wales Online
An extract of an interview Mike Peters had with Alan Thompson in March 2014
The full interview can be read on the I Write The Songs page
Original transcription of the radio interview by S J Henry
AT: Tony Visconti is of course production royalty Mike, working with just about everyone that is anyone in the music business. What influence did he have on A New South Wales in particular?
MP: When we got to work with Tony Visconti for the Change album it was pretty mind blowing for all of us because we all had a record collection full of his productions.
AT: So, you sat with Visconti, you got to meet him obviously and you got on well with him. What was his involvement and his input into A New South Wales?
MP: Well with the Change album I actually had a massive amount of songs to choose from and I think we had about 40 or 50 songs and so he had a lot to get through and then I said, right at the end really, I said there’s one more song I’d like to play to you and I think you will be the only person in the world that would get this. It’s not your usual Alarm song and I played him a cassette demo of it and he went ‘Mike, that’s got to go on the album, that’s beautiful, you’ve got to do that’ and Tony said ‘that completes the album for me’ and we sat down and said how are we going to do it though? Because there’s no drums, no guitar solo for Dave, no bass part and there was a little bit of resistance in the band because everyone thought the album was complete, with Sold Me Down the River, and all the big tracks that were on there, No Frontiers and everyone was ‘we’ve got the big songs’, but Tony was ‘this is not just about the singles, this is about making a piece of art, an album that people are going to be able to come back to and this song you’ve got here is the heart and soul of the record and we’re going to do it’. That was it, it was going to be on the album.
AT: Um, what was Tony Visconti’s input Mike with the orchestral arrangement on the track?
MP: Tony, because he was a string arranger, and he’d done all these great arrangements on the T-Rex records, that was a given that he would write the arrangement. But, Tony had more to give to The Alarm, he was American, but married to Mary Hopkin, he understood Welsh! And so Tony when he heard the song he said to me, ‘I hear the song I hear the choir, this is an album about Wales, let’s bring Wales to this song, let’s get a male voice choir, let’s do it properly” and he, ‘cos he’s aware of all that stuff through the Mary Hopkin world and he’d lived in South Wales with her and he’d travelled around Wales so it was just the right combination all coming together and our battle was we’ve only got 24 hrs to do it because this was right at the end of the album and I said ‘well look, I know a guy at the BBC and I’m going to phone him’. We phoned a gentleman called Gareth Morlais and I said ‘this sounds strange Gareth but I’m with Tony Visconti and we’ve got to record a song for The Alarm album but want a male voice choir in it, could you find us one, by tomorrow?’ (laughing) and an hour later he came back and said ‘I’ve got one!’. It’s the Morriston Orpheus and Tony was kind of grabbing me off the phone saying ‘and we need a string section too! As I’m going to write the arrangement overnight.’ Gareth got a small string section from the Welsh National Orchestra to arrive for the next day and Tony literally spent all night and wrote the arrangement and came in. No-one had heard it until it was placed in front of the string players, I think he was still working on some of it on the train to Cardiff in the afternoon.
AT: Coincidentally, I was actually at that recording. There was a small audience there, you recorded it in the orchestral studio at Broadcasting House in Cardiff. Um, I remember it as being quite a tense situation actually, because it was a live environment, everything was new, the choir where there, the strings had just been written, how nerve wracking was it to record that session? Because it was all done live wasn’t it?
MP: Oh, it was terrifying for me. I’d never done anything like that before, I’d only ever sung in a band, and so all of a sudden, I was singing with these amazing singers behind me, a pianist, and a conductor. I didn’t even know how conductors counted in music as they didn’t go on 2, 3, 4. They just waved their baton and everyone came in as, I thought ‘wow, where’s that come from?’. And Tony Visconti’s there and an audience and it was very, very tense, and the rest of the band were in the seats, not even on stage, looking at me. So, it was so difficult. Everyone wanted to make it work by this point, everyone got, everyone knew this album was coming to its moment where it’s gonna give birth here, it was the big moment.
AT: You pulled it off, I remember that day very well and I thought what an amazing song and a performance. Did you realise when you were making that record that the power of the Morriston Orpheus choir behind you that you were hitting gold?
MP: Yeah, I think we all realised we’d stumbled into something that was bigger than the band if you like. It wasn’t just an Alarm song, this was a people’s song, this was something that belonged to a nation almost. It was bigger than what we were all about and I think it summed up all that we were and all that we hoped to be.
AT: When you are writing a song like that, the song was about building a new Jerusalem, a new South Wales in the shadow of industrial decline, but you used choirs, as we just heard there, and lyrical references to pit shaft wheels and Davey lamps. Was there any danger in being over sentimental and calling on old stereotypes do you think? Were you aware of that risk?
MP: There, there was, but I still don’t think there’d really been a record like it before or since, in a way. Because it was still a rock song at the core of it. It had to look back to go forward, and I think that’s what the song did for The Alarm and for the community it was addressing, and on a wider scale, we were using Wales as a mirror to the world. It was, we were a microcosm of what was going on in the world. The Berlin wall was about to come down, Europe was going to change, countries like Wales were about to be born, and we’d been a small country for eternity, and we’d had to fight for our roots and fight for identity and fight to hold our communities together, and our language. And even though some of it had disappeared it was still in the heart of everybody in the country. I felt that people around the world would relate to our story in Wales because it had parallels for everyone on a global scale.
AT: Did you think it was going to be a bigger hit? So, I thought it was going to be top 10 that one certainly, and even maybe a No. 1, it was such powerful piece
MP: It was, I mean, at the time Simon Mayo on Radio 1, he was the big driving force of playing it on the radio, but I think, there was that element in the 80’s BBC national media that it was colloquial, it was about Wales, they didn’t, maybe they didn’t see it being as large and as wide, and as all-encompassing as we did or as Simon Mayo did. But, I think Britain has a difficulty that America doesn’t, when you could be Bruce Springsteen and singing about New Jersey but you can’t sing about Liverpool or Wales in Britain in the same way without it appearing as if it belongs on BBC Wales, not on the BBC, and that, I think that’s something we’re still trying to overcome in this country.
25th June 1989 recording details
Running length 3:59 Single edit
Running length 4:47 Album version
Written by Macdonald / Peters
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Lead Vocals
Mark Taylor – Piano
The Morriston Orpheus Male Choir – Vocals
The Welsh Symphony Orchestra – Strings
Recorded 25th June 1989 at Studio One, BBC Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Mixed at Good Earth Studio, London W1D, England in July 1989
Produced and Engineered by Tony Visconti
Engineered by Nigel Lewis
Alternative studio recordings – Demo, Acoustic, Re-imagined
23rd May 1987 – Eye of the Hurricane demo
Running length 3:03
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Vocals
Mark Taylor – Piano
Produced by John Porter
Engineered by Tony Platt
Mixed at Cello Studios, Las Angeles, USA 2000 by Mike Peters
5th April 1988 – The Alarm – the alarm.change.demos released in 1998
Running length 2:59
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Eddie Macdonald – Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic demonstration recording
1995 – Acoustic recording details
Running length 2:54
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Recorded at Fort Apache, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Produced by Michael Peters
Recorded by Dan McLoughlin
2019 – Mike Peters presents The Alarm – Stream [Hurricane of Change] – Downstream disc
Running length 3:20 with 0.33 Narration intro.
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – 1st Voice, Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Narration
Steve “Smiley” Barnard – 2nd Voice, Drums, Percussion
Jules Jones Peters – 3rd Voice, Piano
George Williams – 4th Voice, Bass Guitar
Recorded at Sain Studios, Caernarfon, Wales 8th-12th February 2019
Recorded and engineered by George Williams
Assistant recording engineer Aled Hughes
Demonstration tape engineer Mark Warden
Album appearances and discography of studio recordings

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All the following are Worldwide releases except where stated
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18th September 1989 : The Alarm – Change
Released in the UK on vinyl IRSAX 1020, cassette IRSAC 1020, CD IRSACD 1020 by IRS Records
Change was also released on vinyl, cassette and CD in USA, Canada, Vinyl and CD in Europe and Australia,
Vinyl and cassette in Italy, Vinyl only in Brazil Cassette only in Germany, CD only in Japan
Original 1989 full recording
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1989 : The Alarm – The Alarm
Released on CD in Japan IRS Records, catalogue number CDS-34 Promotional compilation album
Original 1989 full recording 
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13th November 1990 : The Alarm – Standards
Released in the UK on vinyl EIRSA1043, cassette EIRSC1043, CD EIRSCD1043 by IRS Records
Standards was also released on vinyl, cassette and CD in Europe, Vinyl and cassette Italy
A New South Wales does not feature on non-European releases
Original 1989 full recording
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1997 : Mike Peters – Acoustic Works 1987-1991
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C005
1995 Fort Apache Acoustic Recording
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13th April 1998 : The Alarm And Mike Peters – The Best Of The Alarm and Mike Peters
Released on CD in the UK & Europe by EMI, catalogue number 7243 4 93751 2 3
1989 original recording radio edit
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1998 : The Alarm – the alarm.change.demos
Released on CD Red Dragon Record, catalogue number LC6448
April 1988 Acoustic recording
2000 : The Alarm – Eye Of The Hurricane [1987-1988]
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C013
1987 Eye Of The Hurricane sessions version remastered
Appearing as part of the Alarm 2000 collection box set and then later as an individual disc
2000 : The Alarm – Change [1989-1990]
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C015
1989 full recording remastered
Appearing as part of the Alarm 2000 collection box set and then later as an individual disc
2000 : The Alarm – The Alarm 2000 collection sampler
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C018
1987 Eye of the hurricane sessions edit version
2002 : The Alarm – Close
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21CS002
1989 recording edit version 
2002 : Mike Peters – Acoustic Alarm Standards
Released on CD in the USA by Conspiracy Music CM0014
1995 Fort Apache Recording
2004 : The Alarm – 2004 Reissues Sampler
Released on CD in the UK by EMI, no catalogue number
1989 full recording
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2006 : The Alarm – The Best Of The Alarm.
Released on CD in Europe, USA & Canada on Capitol Records, catalogue number 09463-57607-2-9
1989 recording radio edit version
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1st October 2019 : Mike Peters presents The Alarm – Stream {Hurricane of Change} – Downstream disc
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C112
2019 recording
5th June 2021 : The Alarm – History Repeating
Released on CD by Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C120
1989 full recording remastered
Single appearances and discography





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23rd October 1989 : 7″ Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / (b-side) The Rock (edit)
Released by IRS Records catalogue number EIRS 129
Original 1989 full recording
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23rd October 1989 : 7″ Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / (b-side) The Rock (edit) Die cut sleeve gate-fold with 4 pages of photos
Released by IRS Records catalogue number EIRSB 129
Original 1989 full recording
23rd October 1989 : 10″ White Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / (b-side) Rivers To Cross (live) / The Rock (long) / Working Class Hero
Released by IRS Records catalogue number EIRS TEN 129
Original 1989 full recording
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23rd October 1989 : 12″ Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / Breaking Point / (b-side) The Rock (long) / Vigilante Man
Released by IRS Records catalogue number EIRST 129
Original 1989 full recording
23rd October 1989 : CD Single – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / The Rock (long) / Breaking Point / Working Class Hero
Released by IRS Records catalogue number EIRSCD 129
Original 1989 full recording
23rd October 1989 : Cassette Single – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / (b-side) The Rock
Released by IRS Records catalogue number EIRSC 129
Original 1989 full recording
Europe Releases :
October 1989 : 7″ Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / (b-side) The Rock (edit)
Released by IRS Records catalogue number 006-24 10407
Original 1989 full recording
October 1989 : 12″ Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / Breaking Point / (b-side) The Rock (long) / Vigilante Man
Released by IRS Records catalogue number 060-24 10406
Original 1989 full recording 
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October 1989 : CD3 – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / The Rock (long) / Breaking Point / Working Class Hero
Released by IRS Records catalogue number IRS 2410403
Original 1989 full recording
Japan Release :
1989 : 7″ Vinyl – A New South Wales
Track listing : A New South Wales / Sixty Eight Guns
Original 1989 full recording
Officially released live recordings – Audio

All are Worldwide Releases on Twenty First Century Recording Company
(Except where stated)
16th December 2000. Recorded at University, Cardiff, Wales
Running Length 3:42
Performed by The Alarm MM : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Richard Llewellyn, Steve Grantley
This tour to promote The Alarm 2000 collection and were billed as The Alarm MM.
The December tour CD’s were released as Live At ….
12th November 2003. Recorded at The Middle East, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Performed by The Alarm MMIII : Band line up : (tbc)
Released on CD The Alarm Live At …
26th February 2004. Recorded at Municipal Arts Centre, Pontypridd, Wales
Running Length 3:17
Performed by The Alarm MMIV : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve Grantley
Released on CD The Alarm Live At …
28th August 2004. Recorded at William Aston Hall, NEWI, Wrexham, Wales
Running Length 3:19.
Performed by Mike Peters acoustic
Released on CD in 2004 as Alarmstock 2 Volume 2 – Is A Working Man Born To Live And Then Die
6th August 2005. Recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2, London NW8, England
Running Length 3:38
Performed by Mike Peters acoustic
Released on CD in 2005 as Alarmstock III London Set 4 – Eight Thousand Went Down
28th February 2009. Recorded at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Wales.
Running Length 3:03
Performed by Mike Peters acoustic
Released on CD in 2009 as Mike Peters of The Alarm Live Acoustic, catalogue number 21C049
28th January 2012. Recorded at The Gathering 20, Pontins Prestatyn Sands, Holiday Park, Prestatyn, Wales
Running length 3.40
Performed by The Alarm : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, Mark Taylor, Steve Norman
Released on CD/DVD in 2012 as The Alarm – The Music Must And Shall Be Preserved (audio disc), catalogue number 21CDVD016
26th January 2013. Recorded at The Gathering 21, Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales
Running length 2:42
Performed by The Alarm : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, Mark Taylor
Released on CD/DVD in 2013 as The Alarm – Abide With Us – Live at The Gathering 2013 Catalogue number 21C063
Officially released live recordings – Video/DVD


All are Worldwide Releases except where stated
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1989. The Alarm – Change
Official Promotional Video for A New South Wales
Released on VHS video in UK and Europe only on Picture Music International, catalogue number MVR 9900863
1990. The Alarrm – Standards
Official Promotional Video for A New South Wales
Running length 4:28
Released in UK on VHS PAL Video – I.R.S. records IVP1. USA VHS NTSC Video EYE.R.S 5VD-13056
13th January 2001. Recorded at The Gathering 9, The North Wales Conference Centre, Llandudno, Wales.
Performed by live by The Alarm MMI : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Richard Llewellyn, Steve Grantley.
Released on DVD in 2005 – The Alarm – The Gathering History
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21CDVD003
24th January 2003. Recorded at The Gathering 11, The North Wales Conference Centre, Llandudno, Wales
Performed live by Mike Peters acoustic
Released on DVD in 2005 – The Alarm – The Gathering History
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21CDVD003
1st March 2004. Recorded at Scala, Kings Cross, London N1, England
Performed live by The Alarm MMIV : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve Grantley
Released in 2005 on CD/DVD – The Alarm MMIV – Live In The Poppy Fields,
Snapper Records catalogue number SMASDVD026
27th January 2012. Recorded at The Gathering 20, Pontins Prestatyn Sands Holiday Park, Prestatyn, Wales
Running length 3.40
Performed live by The Alarm : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, Mark Taylor, Steve Norman
Released in 2012 on DVD – The Alarm – The Music Must And Shall Be Preserved
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21CDVD016
26th January 2013. Recorded at The Gathering 21, Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales
Running length 2:42
Performed live by The Alarm : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, Mark Taylor
Released in 2013 on DVD- The Alarm – Abide With Us – Live at The Gathering 2013
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C063
2nd May 2015. Recorded at The Globe, Cardiff, Wales
Performed live by Mike Peters acoustic
Released on CD on 7th December 2015 – Mike Peters presents The Alarm – Live At The Globe 2015 – Strength Set
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21CDVD019
10th October 2015. Recorded at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff Wales
Performed live by The Alarm : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, The Welsh Pops Orchestra, Acquire Choir
Released in 2016 on DVD/CD – Mike Peters & The Alarm – Poppies Falling From the Sky
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21CDVD021
Sessions, TV Appearances, Podcasts and Online Multi-Media
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25th June 1989. Recorded at Studio One, BBC Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Running length
Performed by Mike Peters, Mark Taylor, The Morriston Orpheus Male Choir, The Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Released on CD in 2008 as The Alarm – Radio Sessions 1983-1991 BBC
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C045
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30th May 2020. First broadcast for Season 1 Episode 11 of the Big Night In live stream broadcast from The Peters House, Dyserth, Wales
Running Length 2:30
Performed by Mike Peters solo acoustic
Released on CD in 2020 as The Alarm Music Will Keep Us Strong – Disc 4
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C118
The Big Night In Season 1 Episode 11 can be viewed in full on the video section of Alarm Central
Lyrics – Change Album
Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time
In the Rhondda tonight
The Davy lamps that shone so brightly
There’s no more need for their light
As the last piece of coal is cut
From the belly of the black seamed hole
A man walks home alone
Past a church full of mourning souls
Throughout his lifetime he has fought
He has given his life
In tears the congregation sing
Cwm Rhondda Oh my Lord
Great is the rape of the fair country
To Botany Bay for my great grandfathers
Deportation sailed
Great so great is the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
The slag heap stares
It blocks out the sky
It keeps this Rhondda grey
The stale beer spills from angry drinkers
Their arguments do the same
A choir voice cries it shatters the silence
Where’s the future in this place
The question hangs unanswered
All eyes on a new born babe
In another lifetime men fought hard
Men gave their lives
For the charter that would save their sons
Cwm Rhondda Oh my Lord
Great, great change in the fair country
The future lies with the sons and daughters
South will meet with North
Say, say a prayer for the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
Throughout a lifetime men have fought
Men have given their lives
To hear a congregation sing
Cwm Rhondda Oh my Lord
Great, great change in the fair country
The future lies with the sons and daughters
South will meet with North
Say, say a prayer for the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
(Oh oh Someone hear my prayer)
(Oh oh Someone hear my prayer)
(For a new South Wales)
(Thank you very much indeed)
(The Morriston Opheus Choir Ladies and Gentlemen)
Lyrics – Eye of the Hurricane Demo / Change Demo
Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time
In the Rhondda tonight
The Davy lamps that shone so brightly
There’s no more need for their light
As the last piece of coal is cut
From the belly of the black seamed hole
A man walks home alone
Past a church full of mourning souls
Throughout his lifetime he has fought
He has given his life
But now he sits at home and sings
Cwm Rhondda Oh my Lord
Great is the rape of the fair country
To Botany Bay for my great grandfathers
Deportation sailed
Great so great is the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
The slag heap stares
It blocks out the sky
It keeps this Rhondda grey
The stale beer spills from angry drinkers
Their arguments do the same
A choir voice cries it shatters the silence
Where’s the future in this place
The question hangs unanswered
All eyes on a new born babe
In another lifetime men fought hard
Men gave their lives
For the charter that would save their sons
Cwm Rhondda Oh my Lord
Great is the rape of the fair country
To Botany Bay for my great grandfathers
Deportation sailed
Great so great is the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Hear my prayer
Lyrics – Stream [Hurricane of Stream] – Upstream
Narration
It was a new day
The pit shaft wheels turned for the last time
And I walked home alone
Past a church full of mourning souls
As I headed back to where I had come from
A new argument was was spilling
From the voices of angry drinkers
In the pubs that marked the way
it was a time for change
And I knew that nothing I had known
Would ever remain the way it was
For some it really was the end
For others it represented a beginning
Lyrics
Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time
In the Rhondda tonight
The Davy lamps that shone so brightly
There’s no more need for their light
As the last piece of coal is cut
From the belly of the black seamed hole
A man walks home alone
Past a church full of mourning souls
Saying, great is the rape of the fair country
To Botany Bay for my great grandfathers
Deportation sailed
Say, say a prayer for the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
Oh!
The slag heap stares
Blocks out the sky
Keeps this Rhondda grey
The stale beer spills from angry drinkers
Their arguments do the same
A choir voice cries shatters the silence
Where’s the future in this place
The question lies unanswered
All eyes on a new born babe
Crying, great, great change in the fair country
The future lies with our sons and daughters
South will meet with North
Great so great is the fair country
Great is the need for a new South Wales
Oh! For a new South Wales
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
Oh oh Someone hear my prayer
For a new South Wales
Audio & Visual Sources

Click on image for video of The Alarm A New South Wales Official 1989 Promotional video
Click on image for video of The Alarm appearance on Wogan, 1989 BBC TV appearance
Click on image for video of The Alarm appearance in 1989 on the Elinor Jones show, Welsh TV
Click on image for video of The Alarm live recording from Oslo. Norway 1990 includes interview
Click on image for video of Mike Peters live audience recording Aberdare festival, Wales 3rd June 2012
Click on image for video of The Alarm live audience recording from Millennium Centre, Cardiff Wales 10th October 2015 with Welsh Pops Symphony Orchestra, Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir and Acquire
Click on image for video of Live audience recording from Mike Peters and Dave Sharp perform with Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir at Midsummer Gathering, Cardiff, Wales 29th June 2019
Audio Link – Mike Peters and Mark Taylor 1987 Hurricane sessions demo
Audio Link – Mike Peters and Eddie Macdonald April 1988 Change demo version
Audio Link – The Alarm October 1989 single release edit version
Audio Link – The Alarm with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Horizons Sing’ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, Wales 25th April 2014
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