May 11th 1985 – Hammersmith Odeon
We’d been to see Ultravox at Hammersmith Odeon and had such a great time, that when we saw The Alarm were going there too and on a Saturday, we jumped at the chance to have a full day out in London.
Getting to London from Leicester was pretty easy, we all met at the station and got on the train, an hour and a half later, we were in the big city smoke.
Memory does me no service on what we did during the day, but I would be fairly sure we had what would be my first visit to areas such as Covent Garden, Carnaby Street and a bit of sight seeing….and food and beer!! I doubt at this point we would have ventured to Cambden, I’m sure that happened quite a bit later and maybe even on a non music trip to begin with.
The Alarm were fast becoming a firm favourite for great concerts, singing to the tunes and the atmosphere. I’d by now discovered that black everything was my favoured colours, wasn’t really loving jeans, so black army trousers worked well with black shirt and a black Alarm Canvas jacket (long since gone and out-grown).
In a strange way this was a little bit of a disappointing Alarm concert, not because they were not good, they were their usual great show, but Hammersmith Odeon was all seated and that wan’t conducive to the bopping and moshing we wanted to do.
Great concert and superb day out discovering London for the first real day.
Set List
- Majority
- Marching On
- Deeside
- Dawn Chorus
- The Day the Ravens Left the Tower
- Knife Edge
- One Step Closer to Home
- Third Light
- Absolute Reality
- Blaze of Glory
- The Stand (Prophecy)
- Sixty Eight Guns
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