Gathering 31 / 2024
Held at various venues in Cardiff, Wales
Thursday 18th January 2024 – The G’Thur’ing, Temple Bar, High Street, Cardiff, Wales
Friday 19th January 2024 – Umbrella Art Collective Studio, Cardiff, Wales
Friday 19th January 2024 – Y Plas, Cardiff University Student Union, Cardiff, Wales
Saturday 20th January 2024 – Daytime events – Y Plas, Cardiff University Student Union, Cardiff, Wales
Saturday 20th January 2024 – Evening gig – The Great Hall Cardiff University Student Union, Cardiff, Wales
Sunday 21st January 2024 – Senedd Cymru, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales


Thursday 18th January 2024
The Ga’Thur’ing @ Temple Bar, Cardiff, Wales
Gareth ‘Gaz Top’ Jones curated this event at The Official Alarm Fan Zone at the Temple Bar, Cardiff for a night of spontaneous entertainment, live music performance, chat, banter, and bonhomie as The Gathering got underway and The Alarm community takeover of Cardiff began. Expect the unexpected was how it was billed, with acoustic sets from Smiley, James Stevenson, Chris Summerill and very special guest Mike Peters who performed 4 songs : Coming Home, Change II, Bittersweet Symphony and Red Wall Of Cymru



(Pictures by Cathi Simpson, Alan Wareham, Christina Andersen, Sue Sullivan)

Friday 19th January 2024
Umbrella Art Collective Studio, Cardiff, Wales
12:00 – 14:00 Alternative Declaration
A first ever live art exhibition presented in person by Mike Peters with music and paint inspired by the 40th Anniversary of The Alarm’s classic debut album Declaration

(Pictures by Ellis Meredith-Owen, Martin Kyte)
(More images to follow of the artwork itself)

Friday 19th January 2024
Y Plas, Cardiff University Student Union, Cardiff, Wales
The Toilets set: Nothing To Do, Alarm Alarm, Standing On The Corner
Seventeen set: Talking About The Weekend, Hear Me Out, Street Of 1000 Faces, Bank Holiday Weekend
Alarm set: Declaration, Marching On, For Freedom, Reason 41, The Deceiver, Shout To The Devil, Tell Me, Across The Border, Pavilion Steps, What Kind Of Hell, Third Light, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Unbreak The Promise, Second Generation, One Step Closer To Home, Howling Wind, Sixty Eight Guns, Blaze Of Glory, A Legal Matter, Lie Of The Land, The Stand, Better Scream, Unsafe Building, Knocking On Heaven’s Door, We Are The Light
(Set list provided by Matt Saunders)

Saturday 20th January 2024
Daytime events – Y Plas, Cardiff University Student Union, Cardiff, Wales

Saturday 20th January 2024
Evening gig – The Great Hall Cardiff University Student Union, Cardiff, Wales
Mike Peters solo performance set list: In The Poppy Fields, Live Today Love Tomorrow, A New South Wales, Steeltown, Red Wall Of Cymru
Band line up : Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Steve ‘Smiley” Barnard, Jules Jones Peters
The Alarm set list: Superchannel, Absolute Reality, 45 RPM, Two Rivers (Reprise), A Breed Apart, Sold Me Down The River, Next, The Drunk and The Disorderly/Pretty Vacant, Knife Edge (walking through the crowd)
Mike Peters Solo In the Crowd : Right Back Where I Started From, Walk Forever By My Side, The Rock and Roll
Back on main stage with full band: Kill Kill Kill, Strength, Rain In The Summertime, Breathe, Beautiful, My Town, Sixty Eight Guns, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Rescue Me, Spirit Of ’76
Encore: The Bells Of Rhymney, Rocking in the Free world, Blaze Of Glory, This Train Is Bound For Glory, Get Down Get with it
(Set lists provided by Andi Badgeman, Ellis Meredith-Owen, Matt Smith)

Sunday 21st January 2024
Love Hope Strength Event – Senedd Cymru, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales
Love Hope Strength walk with Mike Peters performing 3 songs on the steps of the Senedd Cymru : Love Hope Strength, One Guitar, Staying Alive


(Pictures by Nancy Langfield, Heather Patton, Gareth Mitchell, Chico Fernandez)

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