Mike Peters
Mike Peters
Genres: rock, singer-songwriter, alternative rock, alternative, Acoustic Rock
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About Mike Peters
Mike Peters MBE DL (born Michael Leslie Peters on 25 February 1959; died 29 April 2025) was a Welsh musician remembered as the lead singer of The Alarm. Peters first rose to prominence in the mid-80s as lead singer of the Welsh band The Alarm, leaving that group in 1991 to begin a solo career. After the infamous Brixton academy gig, he retreated to a small church in North Wales to write new material for his solo career. Over a year later he emerged, refreshed, and contacted The Alarm's fan club. He then went on tour and funded his own fan club, The MPO (Mike Peters organization). In 1992 he held The Gathering, a weekend long gig held in his hometown Rhyl. The Gathering is now in it's 14th year in Llandudno (a bigger venue!). His first album ‘Breathe’ was an underground success. It was then that he was diagnosed with Non- Hodgkin’s Lymphatic Cancer. He kept this a secret from his fans and carried on with the tour. After the tour, he went back to his doctors and all were amazed to find his cancer had gone into recession. Fuelled by inspiration he wrote and recorded 'Regeneration’, a song full of vitality. A second album 'Feel Free' was released in 1996. Peters has played with several bands over the years including 'Coloursound' and 'Dead Men Walking'. In 2000 he reformed 'The Alarm' with the 'Sisters of Mercy' and 'The Mission's Craig Adams; 'Gene loves Jezebel's James Stevenson and 'The Stiff Little Fingers' Steve Grantley. They have released albums, including 'In the Poppyfields' and 'Under Attack'. In October 2005, Peters was re-diagnosed with cancer, but announced in July 2006 that he was in complete remission and that he and his wife, Jules, were expecting their second baby. In 2011, Peters joined Big Country for their UK tour and released a single with the band that August, titled "Another Country", followed in April 2013 by the album The Journey. Peters was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Clwyd in December 2008. He was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to cancer care. In September 2022, he announced that his chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) had relapsed, and he was being treated with chemotherapy at the North Wales Cancer Centre.
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