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Fans and Family Honor Alarm Frontman Mike Peters at Dyserth Funeral Service

Love Hope Strength’s Get On The List campaigns have swelled global stem cell registers by more than 250,000 donors.

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Overview

  • Around 150 guests gathered at St Bridget and St Cwyfan’s Parish Church in Dyserth on May 29 for the funeral, with the service broadcast on a large outdoor screen for additional fans.
  • Sons Evan and Dylan Peters performed guitar alongside Billy Duffy of the Cult, Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and Big Country’s Watson brothers, and attendees marked a spirited “minute of noise.”
  • James Chippendale, co-founder of Love Hope Strength, described the two-hour ceremony as “spot-on perfect” and highlighted Peters’s genuine connection with fans.
  • Peters died on April 29 at age 66 after a 30-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and a late-stage Richter’s syndrome diagnosis.
  • An MBE since 2019 for voluntary cancer-care work, he co-founded Love Hope Strength whose Get On The List initiative has registered over 250,000 potential stem cell donors worldwide.