Greenbelt is a British Christian arts festival that started in Charsfield nr Woodbridge Suffolk and has also been held at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, Deene Park, Northamptonshire, Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire and Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire. Mike Peters solo, The Alarm, Mike Peters & The Poets, Dave Sharp solo and Coloursound, have all appeared at this festival.
Some of the information below comes from the Very Official Greenbelt Facebook group.
(v) 23rd August 1986 : Mike Peters – The Big Top, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Set list : The Stand, The Deceiver, We Are the Light, Blaze of Glory, Walk Forever By My Side, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, This Train Is Bound for Glory, Sixty Eight Guns
Mike’s first ever solo show. 5000 people crammed into a big top intended to hold 3000. For Knockin On Heavens Door & Bound For Glory, Mike was backed by a hastily arranged band of festival organisers & members of bands Talking Drums, The Crooked Rose & Jump The Nile.
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(v) 20th August 1987 : The Alarm – Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Band line up : Mike Peters, Dave Sharp, Eddie MacDonald, Nigel Twist
Set list : Gaz Top Introduction, Newtown Jericho, Strength, Knife Edge, Howling Wind, The Deceiver, Hallowed Ground, One Step Closer to Home, Rain in The Summertime, Absolute Reality, Shelter, Rescue Me, Spirit of ’76, Blaze of Glory, Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke, Sixty Eight Guns
Greenbelt Program 1987
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(v) 25th August 1990 : Mikes Peters – Solo Mainstage, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Set list : Spiritual, My Sweet Lord
This was the debut live performance of Spiritual which would then emerge as part of the solo set in 1992
(v) 25th August 1990 : Mikes Peters – Radio Greenbelt,Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Performs Unsafe Building as part of an interview
(v) 25th August 1990 : The Alarm – The Big Top, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Band line up : Mike Peters, Dave Sharp, Eddie MacDonald, Nigel Twist
Set list : Rocking In The Free World, The Road, Unsafe Building, Devolution Working Man Blues, The Stand, God Save Somebody, The Cross, The Wind Blows Away My Words, Lead Me Through The Darkness, Declaration/Marching On, Sold Me Down The River, We Are The Light, Reason 41, Rescue Me, Blaze of Glory
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(v) 28th August 1992 : Mike Peters & The Poets of Justice – The Big Top, Deene Park, Corby, Northamptonshire
Band line up : Mike Peters, Ethan Johns, Dave Watkins-Clarke, Martyn Barker, Jules Jones-Peters
Set list : Into – Endless Art, Poetic Justice, All I Wanted, One World Exodus, Unsafe Building, It Just Don’t Get Any Better Than This, Spiritual , Train A Comin’, Levi’s and Bibles, Refugees In The Westworld, Into The 21st Century, Unstoppable, Can’t Get Through, What The World Can’t Give Me, My Sweet Lord, We Are The Light, This Is War, Beautiful Thing, A New Chapter
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(v) 31st August 1992 : Dave Sharp – Deene Park, Corby, Northamptonshire
Set list : Drivin’ Hard Rain, Hard Travellin’, Easterhouse, In The City, Ghost Train, Warm Heart,, Bad Lands, Roll On, Ain’t Long For The Day, Playboys and Playgirls, My Land, Your Land, Last Smilin’ Villain, Passing Through
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28th August 1994 : Mike Peters & The Poets – Deene Park, Corby, Northamptonshire
(v) 31st August 1998 : Coloursound – Mainstage, Deene Park, Corby, Northamptonshire
Band line up : Mike Peters, Billy Duffy, Craig Adams, Steve Grantley
Set list : Under The Sun, Where Do you Want To Go, Strength, For The Love Of, State Of Independence, All Kinds Of Wonderful, This Perfection, Rain, Heavy Rain, Alive, She Sells Sanctuary
(v) 29th August 2016 : Mike Peters – The Rising, Mainstage, Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire
At the Rising on Monday, Martyn Joseph talked to She Makes War and Mike Peters, formally of the Alarm. Both made fine contributions, but the most compelling component of the show was Peters’s account of setting up a bone-marrow-donor charity after he recovered from leukaemia. Anyone attending his gigs is asked for a cheek swab as they exit venues, and is added to a matching database. The programme has saved 3000 lives, and enlarged donor availability by a huge margin.
The Church Times- Website
(v) 29th August 2016 : Mike Peters – Glade Big Top Mainstage, Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire
Mike Peters solo show part of the Spirit of 86 in 2016 Tour
(Last updated 10/08/2025)