Where are they now?

The Alarm, The Psychedelic Furs and The Fixx joined forces this past summer for the ROCKIN THE COLONIES TOUR, hitting selected cities throughout the US.

Nothing will stop The Alarm (http://www.thealarm.com/777/) frontman Mike Peters. Band break-ups, a less than successful solo career, cancer, leukemia-you name it, he has seen it all, in spades. After pursuing a solo career in the '90s, Mike regrouped The Alarm with a different lineup in 2004 and releaseed the single "45 RPM" under the band name The Poppy Fields. Unbeknown to the recording industry, radio programmers or the listeners, the lead singer of The Poppy Fields was none other than Mr. Peters, having recorded and released the song without his name associated to it (they even went so far as to pay another UK band to lip sync the video). After the single went top 30 in the UK, Mike let everyone in on the secret (The Poppy Fields was actually the name of The Alarm album being recorded at the time. After being diagnosed with leukemia in December of 2005 ( Mike had successfully fought lymph cancer in 1995), Mike took it easy in 2006 by taking chemo treatments, becoming a father again, founding the "Love Hope Strength" Foundation (dedicated to cancer research http://www.lovehopestrength.com/ ) and starting work on the groups latest effort, "Under Attack". Released in June of 2006, "Under Attack" featured the single "Supperchannel", which went to #23 on the UK singles chart. Earlier this year Mike, along with Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), Cy Curnin and Jamie West (The Fixx), and Glen Tillbrook and Nick Harper (Squeeze) climbed to 18,000ft on Mount Everest to perform in Everest Rocks, the highest concert on land ever held. The concert was designed to raise funds and awareness for cancer research.

Mike Peters, 2006

Cy Curnin, on Mount Everest

Despite not having released any new material since 2003's "Want That Life" (save Cy Curnin's solo release "Mayfly" in 2005 http://www.cycurnin.com/index.html ) the Fixx (http://www.thefixx.com/news.shtml) have continued touring the US for much of the last two decades. Oddly enough, The Fixx were never much of a draw in their native Britain, experiencing much more success in the US and Canada. Despite talk of recording and a possible new album, no release dates have ever been announced. Cy Curnin is releasing another solo album this month entitled "The Returning Sun".

The world hasn't seen any new Psychedelic Furs ( http://www.burneddowndays.com/) music since 1991's "World Outside". When last we heard from Furs founders Richard and Tim Butler, they had broken away from the remaining group members to form Love Spit Love (http://www.lovespitlove.co.uk/) in the early 90's. In 2000 the brothers Butler reunited with former Furs mate John Ashton and "Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live" was released shortly thereafter. The greatest hits package included one new studio recording as well as three previously unreleased songs. In 2006 Richard Butler (http://www.myspace.com/richardbutlermusic) released a self titled solo album.