Music Monday: The Alarm's Frontman on U2 & Other Irish Influences...

Mike Peters recalls how his band's big break was supporting the iconic Irish band on their massive War Tour, which produced Live at Red Rocks concert film and Under a Blood Red Sky live album.

Welsh-born Mike Peters had decamped to the Big Smoke and was working around the clock to wake the city up to the sound of The Alarm when he got an unexpected phone call from Bono, asking him and his band to support U2 on the American leg of their tour in 1983.

Here’s a fascinating piece of music trivia even some diehard U2 fans might struggle to answer …