THE Alarm's lead singer Mike Peters will present 'The Alarm - Declare Your Strength' - Spirit of 86 tour' at The Brook, Southampton on Saturday ( May 7).

This will be in his usual contemporary style featuring performance, stories and images to honour the legacy the album left on the decade it helped define and the continuing significance it holds for listeners who can still relate to it’s timeless themes of love, hope and strength.

The Alarm’s debut album ‘Declaration’ was powered by unique electro-acoustic guitars that by the time of the follow up ‘Strength’, had evolved into a much fuller arena rock sound that paralleled U2 and Springsteen’s E Street Band in its scope and ambition. A sound that would see The Alarm break America on a grand scale and peak with a live appearance before an audience of 26,000 fans at a concert in Los Angeles watched by millions around the world via MTV’s first ever live satellite broadcast.

Packed with powerful yet personal songs like the autobiographical ‘Spirit Of ‘76’ and ‘Walk Forever By My Side’, ‘Strength’ went on to become The Alarm’s best selling album of the 1980’s charting in the Top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its themes of love, hope and strength are now so synonymous with Mike Peters and his long running battle against cancer.

Two times cancer survivor Mike is fast emerging as one of the most visible advocates and activists for those living with and beating cancer around the world. Over the last four years, his Love Hope Strength Foundation has found over 1100 potentially life saving bone marrow donor matches; built the first ever children’s cancer centre in Tanzania; supported the Bhaktapur Cancer Center in Nepal with life saving equipment and registered over 70,000 donors through it’s ‘Get On the List’ program. By turning rock concerts into lifesaving events, more than 10,000 international recording artists including Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Frank Turner and The Levellers now support the charity by allowing bone marrow registries at their concerts.

Although Peters, is constantly fighting the illness himself (he may ultimately need a bone marrow transplant), he refuses to stop performing. Continually mixing his role as cancer advocate and musician by leading fundraising treks around the Globe and addressing delegates at the World Cancer Congress in Melbourne, Australia in December.

“Thousands of people from around the world die every year simply because they can’t find a match. The match is out there for everyone; they just have not been found. That is our life mission – seeing that everyone that needs a donor has one. It’s that simple! Equally simple is the process – a simple cotton swab of the cheek – to get on the registry and then, if you are lucky enough to become a donor for someone suffering from blood cancer, the next step is a simple out patient procedure. Most people don’t know this and it is our job to get the message out to as many as possible,” says Peters.

Brook Box Office Tel: 023 8055 5366