Some music videos carry more weight than others. The Alarm have shared the official visual for “Live Today,” the final video to feature their beloved late leader Mike Peters, who passed away on April 29, 2025, following a 31-year battle with cancer. Filmed on a beach in the north of England just days before Mike underwent CAR-T treatment in a bid to defeat Richter’s Syndrome, an aggressive form of lymphoma, the video captures him performing with full optimism and joy, unaware of what would follow. “As the sun rose, watching Mike perform this song with so much optimism and hope will live with me forever,” says Jules Peters, Mike’s bandmate and wife. “After filming concluded, we climbed onto the tour bus and drove straight to the Christie Hospital in Manchester. We were full of determination that the pioneering CAR-T would save Mike’s life but, at the same time, I was personally terrified as I couldn’t shake off a feeling that cancer had finally caught up with us both.”
“Live Today” is the latest single from ‘TRANSFORMATION’, due May 29, 2026 on Twenty First Century Recordings/Virgin Music Group. It’s a record that stands as Mike Peters’ final statement, and Jules’ words say everything about the man behind it. “Mike lived a life of beauty and never gave up right to the very end.”
