Mike Peters of The Alarm
The Alarm is back with a brand-new album called Forwards, and frontman Mike Peters has just released a third single off the upcoming record, a song called “Whatever” with a video that finds him on Moel Hiraddug, a mountain in his native Wales.
The 10-track Forwards will be released June 2 in all digital formats — including hi-res and Dolby Atmos editions — and on both compact disc and LP, with the vinyl release featuring two different sleeves and colored-vinyl pressings. (Pre-order: Amazon.com, Apple Music)
Peters, who was initially diagnosed with leukemia in 2005, spent much of the last year in hospitals, receiving chemo treatments and battling a life-threatening pneumonia brought on by his relapse, according to The Alarm’s publicist — who added that Peters is now “newly energized from a healthy prognosis.”
“Whatever” was inspired by John Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Thru The Night,” Peters told The Big Takeover:
“I thought to myself, ‘Never mind the night, what am I going to do to get through life?’ The song ‘Whatever’ was born soon after and it’s really about the most simple, yet most important things like family, friends and loved ones who help you in the hours of need and an appreciation of life’s fundamental gifts such as being able to breathe, talk and to walk.”
Check out the video:
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