{"id":21245,"date":"2023-02-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21245"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T12:05:46","slug":"rainy-days-mondays-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21245","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Days &#038; Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This new video and single is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel for Mike Peters so lets celebrate this Monday with the brand new video and song off the new album &#8211; Take it away MP&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Alarm - Next [Official Music Video]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T71c6IG1gpo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEXT is the brand new single from The Alarm and is available to listen to now at all DSP&#8217;s and online music services. Are you ready for what&#8217;s next? 28 February 2023 Subscribe &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUJuS1pBVVBFRm9rOVhfMkh0N1RBdXRrLWNkZ3xBQ3Jtc0trNV81VVhLeVFZMUt6LXNOcEY1Z3VsdHBKQ0RRUFdNRV95X1pGVlRkZmo5MXdzWklrWDFjRXlLMmdvN3hXNWdjckZDbVotc0hrUVpuODNUdGtIbk9FdGFyM2RtVkJWVEpZN183TTQwSHNRVldydFl1bw&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fsmarturl.it%2FSubscribeToTheAlarm&amp;v=T71c6IG1gpo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/smarturl.it\/SubscribeToTheAlarm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWords cannot express the joy of leaving hospital after a long stay on the wards, especially when it means you have regained your health,\u201d he says, referring to the last year of hospital visits, chemo treatments, and life-threatening pneumonia brought on with the relapse of his leukaemia, which was originally diagnosed in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow The Alarm: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3BpUktVRHM0ZFdkYU51QVAyMjRNdDY2cmNsQXxBQ3Jtc0tuZDl5S01faU8ybDZOVTcxU0w3eTdDYk5vQlFmMDFQQVdmamNBU1ZkeTRDQjNhMUZVQk5tVjI4NUVXbEVsR3BMZzRiTGRSam43RjZWUGV5NTZyYTNTYVJyS1dXa21Sd1NZcHh5M0hGb19ZZ0NnY2QtTQ&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fthealarm.com%2F&amp;v=T71c6IG1gpo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thealarm.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDh1R3lEU1ZkeXE1bXM4V1hLNWZxQUVxMVhod3xBQ3Jtc0trbkpVZTV1T1otZ2tGRTI1bnphcG9MeUJ1aDMtVUJvUFFCZG5CLWZFQk9lYlpLVV84Z1ZQaVhTNkxNT1BzanhrNW1iaXBpRmVEUl9lRXRZTVZ3bTZKY3Q1b1RXdWxiUlRYR1lORjE3U1RXX1RlbzVjZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheOfficialAlarm%2F&amp;v=T71c6IG1gpo\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOfficialA&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHplTGJNbGFsUFhNeC1LeDBlVnRFTWpPUndGQXxBQ3Jtc0tuQ1VtNmo2d3hsU3RxcU5fSVI0NTRydWZQRzh0YktnNzJEZS1fRFZDWHJmYzY3ZEZZZFUyVGlkMWRqN0RUbDBMVzB3bFBQX05IMmV1S0k4VkpLOC1wdVZqVWYyOXBKU2oxUTBJWUVXSFRzXzBpVV96aw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fthealarm%2F&amp;v=T71c6IG1gpo\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thealarm\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3hiMzBSSWpBQ2phNWo3OEJQV2FVWDU4WUxVUXxBQ3Jtc0tub1FlYVR2akg1b2psOTZvN2dFWTBKQTZNV2tUMlU4dk52cFFtVGp4Y0RwcG5hVjZwZERCWHlEOTV1Rk1CUGk1MDdEaVBEdWpIaVNlVWpLQmluTEpwSmRPaVlMc1ZFdjBsVTF1c1ZZaHltek5PZnBvWQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fthealarm&amp;v=T71c6IG1gpo\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/thealarm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the single may signal that he\u2019s newly energised from a healthy prognosis and ready to return to what he loves best \u2013 recording and performing \u2013 the fact is that Peters never stopped doing either of those things. Writing new music and performing it live to hospital staff while undergoing medical procedures to keep his cancer in check, Peters wrote \u201cNext\u201d with his trusty acoustic guitar and an IV stuck in his arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe lyrics of the song were conceived while I was being treated for a leukaemia relapse and a lung that had filled with blood,\u201d&nbsp;Peters explains.&nbsp;\u201cThe outcome was uncertain, but the medical and nursing staff did all they could to keep me going and, in fact, were probably the first people to hear what I was working up musically while they did their life saving work. It wasn\u2019t planned, but once the realization hit me that I was going to be in hospital for a long time, I knew I needed my guitar to break the monotony of the isolation. Being able to play music to myself kept me going and I\u2019m convinced that it helped me make the transition back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder of what he went through and what he leaves behind, Peters filmed the new video in hospital corridors, a familiar sight in the last year especially.&nbsp;\u201cI wanted to film something that captured the elation of knowing you are going home, moving on, going forwards ready for what lies ahead, for what\u2019s next,\u201d&nbsp;he says.&nbsp;\u201cAt night and in between IV sessions, I would walk the very same empty hospital corridors of the North Wales Cancer Centre trying to preserve whatever human strength I could hang on to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new video and single is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel for Mike Peters so lets celebrate this Monday with the brand new video and song off the new album &#8211; Take it away MP&#8230; NEXT is the brand new single from The Alarm and is available to listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1787,7619,1818,2052],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-lhs-2","tag-new-album","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21248,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions\/21248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}