Prestatyn will be rocking old-school style at the end of the month as The Alarm go home for their annual Gathering event. It will be the band’s first Prestatyn gig for 20 years.

The weekend of January 29 and 30 will see Mike Peters and his band head up a celebration of their life and work with thousands of their ardent fans.

It’s being held at Pontin’s Prestatyn Sands and will feature a multiple sets by The Alarm, whose headline...  Read More »

01st April 2010

Nick Harper loves to ponder life, to talk about what he finds funny or the people who really matter to him – but most of all he loves to play the guitar, write songs and sing them.

Fortunately he is rather good at all of it, a natural and sensitive minstrel who engages easily with his audience in both speech and song, and loves to mix humour with more serious and heartfelt subjects.

As the son of legendary British singer...  Read More »

Nick Harper had a head start in the rock star stakes, and as Jackie Butler finds out, he has put it to good use

NICK Harper loves to ponder life, to talk about what he finds funny or the people who really matter to him – but most of all he loves to play the guitar, write songs and sing them. Fortunately he is rather good at all of it, a natural and sensitive minstrel who engages easily with his audience in both speech and song, and loves to mix...  Read More »

The Alarm’s new album Direct Action is a rallying cry for the disaffected and disenfranchised. Inspirational figurehead Mike Peters tells Dave Owens why it’s time to make a stand

A LONE voice rings out in the dim light of a partially darkened arena, all eyes are on the man walking into the crowd, a single spotlight reflecting light off a jet black acoustic guitar.

Fans are rapt in hushed reverie as the opening bars of the song chime out...  Read More »

Apr 10 2010 by David Owens, Western Mail

It’s hard to pigeonhole Mike Peters, but let’s try cancer survivor, devoted dad and charity fundraiser. But also don’t forget his rock star credentials, writes Dave Owens

SENTENCES you don’t expect rock stars to utter: “This morning I did a spinning class. And this afternoon we went to look at our new caravan.”

That’s unequivocally not the sort of normal practice of your average...  Read More »

Although the 2010 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market is industry-only, on Saturday, January 23, they will host an event that convention-goers and the public alike can attend with a concert at by Big Head Todd and the Monsters at The Depot downtown.
The event is sponsored by The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international charity dedicated to fighting cancer through the power of music, and outdoor brands Suunto, Keen, Marmot, and Backpacker Magazine...  Read More »

Big Head Todd and the Monsters
The Colorado rock band and Utah fan favorites are teaming up with Suunto, Keen, Marmot andBackpacker magazine at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Show to help the Love Hope Strength Foundation raise money for global cancer care. Show attendees will be given the opportunity to purchase discounted concert tickets for a donation of $15 or more (tickets at the door are $25).

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Denver - Love Hope Strength (LHS), an international rock and roll cancer foundation, will be at the premier snow sports industry tradeshow with one major goal; saving lives. The music and adventure focused non-profit will be perched at booth #216 with a mission of registering people to the national bone marrow database and providing unique and exciting ways for people to make a tangible difference in cancer care around the world. In addition, LHS will...  Read More »

Meghan Buchanan, of Denver, Colo., and Chris Beck, of Juneau are engaged to be married May 22, 2010, in Seattle, Wash.

The groom is a private banker for Wells Fargo in Juneau, and the bride is a spacecraft survivability engineer for Lockheed Martin.

After the wedding, the couple plans to reside in Juneau. For their honeymoon, they are going to climb Mount Fuji in Japan as part of a cancer awareness nonprofit group Love Hope Strength.

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Do you like to bowl and help save lives? Bowling for Cookies is the first fundraising event for the Olivia Grace Armand Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping nurses and nursing students become pediatric nurses. The event will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Greenacres Bowl, 6126 Lake Worth Road.

The foundation was started...  Read More »

Everett’s father and uncle are both 15 year survivors of prostate cancer, the latter thanks to very early detection and the former thanks to the outstanding treatment protocol at MD Anderson.  A close friend is in the “watchful waiting”...  Read More »