The Alarm - Post Brixton Academy

Post Brixton Academy

Post Alarm, Peters teamed up with a band of unknown musicians to form The Poets Of Justice (which included his wife Jules Peters on keyboards), and embark on a solo career which produced a number of singles and albums. In 2000, The Alarm released a complete collection covering all recorded material by the band. It also included sleeve notes to which all four members had contributed. This was the first project where all four original members had contributed since Peters left the band in 1991.

Following the box set release, Peters used The Alarm name on the tour to promote the complete collection release. The musicians Peters used were his backing band in the late 1990s; Steve Grantley from Stiff Little Fingers, Craig Adams from The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission and The Cult, and James Stevenson from Chelsea and Gene Loves Jezebel. The Alarm name was followed by an MM++ that indicated in Roman numerals what year the record was released. Over the past decade Peters has replaced the band members as needed when Adams, Stevenson or Grantley have pursued other projects.

In February 2004, Peters' new line-up of Alarm MM++ carried out a hoax on the British music industry by issuing "45 RPM" under the fictitious name The Poppy Fields. Peters, having garnered positive feedback for the song, decided to disassociate it from his veteran band to have it judged on its own merits, and recruited a young Welsh group called the Wayriders to lip-sync the song in the video. The so-called Poppy Fields took "45 RPM" into the UK Top 30 before the hoax was revealed, setting the stage for the album, In the Poppy Fields.

The Alarm appeared together for a one off show on the VH1 television programme, Bands Reunited, in 2005, and performed live in London with a subsequent expanded DVD/CD release of the episode.

In 2005, Peters discovered that he was suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. At this time, Peters started a cancer foundation called Love Hope Strength to help with the fight against cancer. In October 2007, Peters, along with 38 other musicians, cancer survivors and supporters, made a 14 day trek to the Mount Everest base camp to perform the highest concert ever on land to raise awareness and money to fight cancer. Other musicians included Cy Curnin and Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats and Nick Harper. Peters is the co-founder of The Love Hope and Strength Foundation with James Chippendale, president of CSI Entertainment in Dallas, Texas.

In 2006, the new version of Alarm MM++ released a second studio album, Under Attack. It spawned another UK Top 30 hit, "Superchannel". Im 2008, a third studio album entitled Guerrilla Tactics was released, followed by a fourth, Direct Action, in April 2010.

The Alarm's song, "Sixty Eight Guns", has been featured in a Heineken television advertisement in the U.S. In April, 2008 Sharp launched his own version of the band, AOR - Spirit of The Alarm to showcase the band's American set lists from the late 1980s.

2013 saw the release of Vinyl (2013 film) which featured new tracks written for the soundtrack album and performed by Mike Peters and The Alarm with guest vocals from the films main stars Phil Daniels and Keith Allen.The film, written and directed by Sara Sugarman, is loosely based on the true events surrounding The Popyfields and release of the single 45rpm. It also features a cameo appearance of Mike Peters.Vinyl (2013 film)is a British Comedy film that has aging rock star Johnny Jones ( Phil Daniels)fool the media into believing his music is that of a new fresh young rock group from North Wales. However as the media frenzy develops the truth has to come out. The Alarm took the amazing step of touring the soundtrack album with a showing of the film at selected venues in the U.K. during March and April 2013.