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The Set List

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Here’s our current set list. Gee, there’s a lot more rock than I realized. Also some of t stuff is a bit obscure, but it’s all great music. Plus we’re always adding new songs, especially requests, so much fun music still left to do.

  1. Look Of Love – ABC
  2. Take On Me – Aha
  3. The Sun Always Shines on TV – Aha
  4. Black Velvet – Alannah Myles
  5. Obsession – Animotion
  6. Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley
  7. Love Shack – B52’s
  8. Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
  9. Venus – Bananarama
  10. Hazy Shade Of Winter – The Bangles
  11. Manic Monday – The Bangles
  12. Walk Like an Egyptian – The Bangles
  13. Take My Breath Away – Berlin
  14. The Metro – Berlin
  15. White Wedding – Billy Idol
  16. Call Me – Blondie
  17. Heart Of glass – Blondie
  18. One Way Or Another – Blondie
  19. Small Town Boy – Bronski Beat
  20. Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles
  21. Drive – The Cars
  22. Let’s Go – The Cars
  23. Wild Flower – The Cult
  24. Joey – Concrete Blonde
  25. Friday I’m In Love – The Cure
  26. Just Like Heaven – The Cure
  27. Love Song – The Cure
  28. Girls Just Wanna have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
  29. She Bop – Cyndi Lauper
  30. Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
  31. China Girl – David Bowie
  32. Let’s Dance – David Bowie
  33. You Spin Me Round – Dead Or Alive
  34. Enjoy The Silence – Depeche Mode
  35. Whip It – Devo
  36. Money For Nothin – Dire Straits
  37. Hungry Like The Wolf – Duran Duran
  38. Disappointed – Electronic
  39. Getting Away With It – Electronic
  40. A Little Respect – Erasure
  41. Here Comes the Rain Again – Eurythmics
  42. Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
  43. She Drives Me Crazy – Fine Young Cannibals
  44. One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx
  45. I Ran (So Far Away) – A Flock Of Seagulls
  46. Relax – Frankie Goes Holly
  47. In Cars – Gary Neuman
  48. Our Lips Are Sealed – GoGo’s
  49. Vacation – GoGo’s
  50. What Is Love – Howard Jones
  51. Don’t You Want Me – Human League
  52. Human – Human League
  53. Candy – Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson
  54. I Love Rock And Roll – Joan Jett
  55. Separate Ways – Journey
  56. Walking on Sunshine – Katrina & the Waves
  57. Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
  58. Neverending Story – Limahl
  59. Working for the Weekend – Loverboy
  60. Holiday – Madonna
  61. In To The Groove – Madonna
  62. Material Girl – Madonna
  63. Papa Don’t Preach – Madonna
  64. Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
  65. Words – Missing Persons
  66. I Melt With You – Modern English
  67. 99 Luftbalons – Nena
  68. Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order
  69. True Faith – New Order
  70. The Riddle – Nick Kershaw
  71. Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo
  72. Enola Gay – OMD
  73. If You Leave – OMD
  74. Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Pat Benatar
  75. Always On My Mind – Pet Shop Boys
  76. Domino Dancing – Pet Shop Boys
  77. It’s A Sin – Pet Shop Boys
  78. West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
  79. What Have I Done To Deserve This – Pet Shop Boys
  80. Major Tom – Peter Schilling
  81. Every Breath You Take – Police
  82. Brass In Pocket – Pretenders
  83. Chain Gang – Pretenders
  84. Don’t Get Me Wrong – Pretenders
  85. 1999 – Prince
  86. Send Me an Angel – Real Life
  87. Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer
  88. Talking in Your Sleep – The Romantics
  89. What I Like About You – The Romantics
  90. Smooth Operator – Sade
  91. Don’t U Forget About Me – Simple Minds
  92. Tainted Love – Soft Cell
  93. Breakout – Swing Out Sister
  94. Everybody Wants To Rule the World – Tears for Fears
  95. Shout – Tears For Fears
  96. Blinded By Science – Thomas Dolby
  97. Hold Me Now – Thompson Twins
  98. Lies Lies Lies – Thompson Twins
  99. Voices Carry – Til Tuesday
  100. 8675309 Jenny – Tommy Tutone
  101. Hey Mickey – Toni Basil
  102. Jump – Van Halen

About Us

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We are a husband and wife duo. We’ve been playing 80s music since, well, the 80s. We’re not a tribute act, we just haven’t changed our set list much in 25 years.

Pete sings lead, plays guitar, keys and produces all the music.  Kelly is the live show MC, sings lead and plays percussion. We have tried playing in bands, but haven’t been able to find musicians that share our passion for 80s synth pop, so now it’s just the two of us. Besides, in the 80s, many acts were just like us – Eurythmics, The Thompson Twins, Tears For Fears, Pet Shop Boys, Human League etc.

We play around 100 of the biggest 80s synth pop hits (I’ll post a list later). The music is very authentic. All the synthesizers used are actual vintage hardware synths, not computer “plugins”. For a while, we carried a big rack full of vintage synths and used them live, but that has become impractical. So now the music is recorded in to a laptop. Much easier!

Pete meticulously researches each song and is usually able to recreate the parts using the same types of vintage synthesizers used in the original recordings, such as the lead synth and bass from “Take On Me”, or the bass sound from “Take My Breath Away”, or the synth lead in “Holiday”, or the vintage sampler sounds used in “Shout”. All the music is transcribed note-for-note from the original recordings. There are many years of programming work in those 100 songs.

We do lots of harmony and “tag team” singing, and really enjoy performing. We have a few Youtube videos, here’s Girls Jus Wanna Have Fun