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It really was. With the game at a rugby stadium, fittingly it was almost like an old 4 Nations with that line up. U2 (Ireland) The Pretenders (England) The Alarm (Wales) The Silencers (Scotland) Other than the headliners then as the biggest band in the world, the reception that the Alarm got...

Sad news indeed. Saw them support U2 in front of a raucous home Welsh crowd at Cardiff Arms Park in '87, then at Hammersmith and at Greenbelt Festival. Easy to pigeonhole them in the banal 80s stadium rock genre, but as mentioned above, many songs had sharp political lyrics. They remembered...