Dyserth is a village in North Wales close to Rhyl and Prestatyn and is the home of Mike and Julie Peters. During 2020 the Big Night In was broadcast from their home during the Covid19 lock-downs. In February 2021 much of the WAЯ album was recorded in their Crusader caravan, renamed Crusader Studio, parked on their drive
In 2021 the Alarm Staycations started based at the former Bethel Chapel in Dyserth running weekly from July 2021 to September 2021. 1869 saw the opening of the newly extended Bethel Chapel, with seating for 380 people. The chapel is said to have cost £1300. £600 of it was paid off straight away, and on January 1890 they celebrated the final payment. In 1988 Mynydd Seion closed and the congregation joined the one at Bethel. This chapel in turn closed in 2002 and the Welsh Presbyterians from Bethel now share a building with the United Reformed Church in Upper Dyserth. the Chapel was bought by Mike and converted into a studio for demonstration and final recording of solo and songs for The Alarm. Promotional performance videos have also been shot here
Dyesth also has a very important role in the early days of Mike Peters performing live. Stripey was a Rhyl schoolboy band formed out of jam sessions at the Bodunig public house in Dyserth in 1975-76. The line up featured Steve Allan Jones vocals and keyboards, Mike Peters on bass guitar, Dave Parry on guitar, Gary Jones on drum), Julie and Melvin on vocals. 
(Picture from http://www.dyseth.com)
Albums Recorded in part of in full in Dyseth at Sea & Mountain or Bethal Chapel Studios
Breathe The Acoustic Sessions (1995)
Acoustic Works 1981 – 1986 (1997)
Acoustic Works 1987 – 1991 (1997)
Live gigs
Part of the Staycation weekend is an intimate acoustic gig performed by Mike Reters
(v) 3rd July 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Unsafe Building, Just Don’t Get Any Better Than This, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Spirit of 76, Up For Murder, Second Generation, Third Light, Newtown Jericho, Sixty Eight Guns, One Guitar, We Are The Light, Get Down Get With It
(v) 10th July 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Unsafe Building, Just Don’t Get Any Better Than This, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Spirit of 76, Up For Murder, Second Generation, Third Light, Newtown Jericho, Sixty Eight Guns, One Guitar, We Are The Light, Get Down Get With It
(v) 17th July 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Punk Rock Medley [Sheena Was a Punk Rocker, New Rose, Fight For Your Right to Party, Pretty Vacant, God Save The Queen, Boredom] Spirit of 76, High On The Hill, Walk Forever By My Side (Duet with Steve Webster), Maggie May
(v) 24th July 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Rain In The Summertime (with Gary Tarling on shaker), One Guitar, Strength, Moment In Time (Swansong version), Declaration, Marching On, The Stand, Tell Me, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Sixty Eight Guns, Majority, Walk Forever By My Side, How The Mighty Fall, Hardland
(v) 31st July 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : One Step Closer To Home, Sold Me Down The River, No Frontiers, Train A Comin’, Breathe, Rocking In The Free World, One Guitar, Unsafe Building, Third Light, Absolute Reality, Knife Edge, Spirit of 76/White Riot
(v) 7th August 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list : Statue of Liberty, St David’s Day, Rain in the Summertime, Change II, Refugees in the Westworld, Levi’s & Bibles, What the World Can’t Give Me, Spiritual, A New Chapter, Unbreak the Promise, Unsafe Building, Rise, Raindown, After the Rock & Roll, Pray, Without a Fight/Strength/Spirit medley, Rockin’ in the Free World ft Jay De Gato Pioden, Still Unsafe, Only the Thunder. The Stand, Warriors, Beautiful, Sixty Eight Guns, 45 RPM, Two Rivers, Blaze of Glory
(Set list provided by Mel De Castro Pugh)
(v) 14th August 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
(v) 21st August 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
(v) 28th August 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
(v) 4th September 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
(v) 11th September 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
(v) 18th September 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
(v) 25th September 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Statue of Liberty, Unsafe Building, Up For Murder, Shout To The Devil, Anarchy In The UK/Pretty Vacant/Spirit of 76, Nothing To Do, Bank Holiday Weekend, Breathe, Under The Sun
(v) 2nd October 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included :Walk Forever By My Side, Only The Thunder, The Day The Ravens Left The Tower, Permanence In Change, Statue Of Liberty, A New South Wales, Love Don’t Come Easy, Let The River Run It’s Course, Breathe (performed with Phil Blanchard), The Wasting Land,New Home New Life, Contenders
(v) 9th October 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Breathe, Into The 21st Century, Shine on 113th Dream, In The Poppy Fields, Right back Where I Started From, The Unexplained, Mercenary Skank, When Everything Was Perfect, My Town, Cease & Desist, Plastic Carrier Bags, Tomorrow,Coming Backwards, Thirteen Dead Reindeer, Psalm, Armageddon In The Morning, Two Rivers, Fail
(v) 16th October 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Spiritual, Rise, Broken Silence, White Noise, The Wasting Land, Transcendental, The Drunk and The Disorderly, Conscientious Objector, Three Seven Clashes, rat Trap, Heroine, Armageddon in The Morning
(v) 23rd October 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Psalm/40, Cenotaph, Coming Backwards, Time, Two Rivers, All Seeing, Zero, 45 RPM, In The Poppy Fields, Let The River Run It’s Course, Hwylio Dros Y Mor/A New South Wales, Red Wall of Cymru, In A Big Country
(v) 30th October 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Broken Silence. Rise, Under The Sun, Close, Peace Agreement, All Seeing, Be Still, Mercenary Skank, Situation Under Control
(v) 6th November 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Street Of A 1000 Faces, Unbreak The Promise, Across The Border, Newtown Jericho, Hallowed Ground, Irish Sea, One Step Closer To Home, Hurt, Angels and promises, Time, The Air That I Breathe (The Hollies), In a Big Country, Wonderwell, Red Wall of Cymru
(v) 13th November 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Breathe, Feel Free, Rise, St David’s Day, In The Poppy Fields, My Calling, The Innocent Party, Right Back Where I Started From, The Drunk And The Disorderly, Release The Pressure, Tomorrow, Angels and Promises/Chance, Angels and Demons, Still Unsafe, Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
(v) 20th November 2021 : Mike Peters – Dyserth Community Hall, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list included : Newtown Jericho, Presence of Love, Rose Beyond The Wall, No Frontiers, The Rock, Black Sun, Where A Town Once Stood, Caroline Isenberg, Reason 36, The Deceiver, Third Light, What Kind Of Hell, Reason 41, Unsafe Building, Breathe, Levis and Bibles, Right back Where I Started From
(v) 18th March 2023 : Mike Peters – The Red, Dyserth, Wales
Mike Peters solo acoustic performance
Set list requested from the attendees of the Staycation weekend : Moments In Time, Change I, Love Don’t Come Easy, Change II, Corridors of Power, A New South Wales, Ballad of Randolph Turpin, Irish Sea, Newtown Jericho, Rose Beyond The Wall, Rain In The Summertime, Dawn Chorus, The Day The Ravens Left The Tower, Majority, Spirit of 76, Walk Forever By My Side, Black Side of Fortune, Howling Wind, Where Were you Hiding When The Storm Broke? (With Andrew Dawes on guitar), We Are The Light, Street Of A Thousand Faces, Blaze of Glory, Forwards, Coming Backwards, Two Rivers, Cenotaph, Hellfire, Armageddon In The Morning, Cease and Desist, This Is Life Get Used To It, Rat Trap, Love Hope Strength, Change III, One Guitar, Free Rock & Roll, In the Poppy Fields. All Seeing, When Everything Was Perfect, Raindown, The Rock and Roll, Transcendental, Broken Silence, Gone Elvis, Back Into The System, Spiritual, Breathe
(Set list provided by Derrick Evans)
(Pictures by Karen Marubbi-Hamer, Gina Irlam)
(Page updated 19/03/2023)