Vapour Trail Live: Synth Britannia

While Greg Peters was away, Meagan and Bret played songs from the late 70's and early 80's to yesterday all focusing on the keyboard and synthesizers. Inspired by the documentary Synth Britannia, we chose bands from that movie as well as acts that were signed to Mute Records, bands that rewrote the pop song, that blazed a trail for a new sound.  

 

We got some great requests, as usual and got loose and did a little dancing for over three hours. I hope you got in the groove and danced along with us!

 

Patrons get to hear Vapour Trail Live one week before everyone else.

 

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Vapour Trail Live 2/10/2023

Synth-Pop 

 

Bret's First Set:

Visage - Fade to grey - Visage, 1981

Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind - Quartet, 1982

The Human League - Seconds - Dare, 1982

 

Bret and Meagan speak at 6:14 PM

 

Meagan’s first set:

Love Comes Quickly - Pet Shop Boys (request for Kris Gardner) (1986)

Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl (1982) 

Boyd Rice/Frank Tovey - Extraction 2 (1981, copyright was from 1984 - release year?)

Kelly Lee Owens - Night

 

Bret's Second Set:

Gary Numan - Cars - The Pleasure Principle, 1979

OMD - Souvenir - Architecture & Morality, 1981

Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence - People Are People, 1982

Heaven 17 - Let Me Go - The Luxury Gap, 1983

 

Meagan’s second set: 

Camouflage - The Great Commandment (Request by Joseph Scurto) 

Robert Görl - A Ist Weider Da

Throbbing Gristle - United

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

 

Meagan and Bret speak 7:14 PM

 

Bret’s Third Set:

Erasure - Chorus- Chorus, 1991

Yazoo - Don't Go - Upstairs at Eric’s, 1982

The B-52's - Whammy Kiss- Whammy!, 1983

Q-Feel - Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Re-Bop)

 

Bret and Meagan speak, 7:45 PM

 

Meagan’s third set

Telex - Dance to the Music (Sly & the Family Stone cover) 

Prince - Delirious

Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People (for Greg

Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator (for Greg)

 

Blancmange - Living on The Ceiling - Cabaret Voltaire - Doubled Delivery 

Linea Aspera - Malarone - Linea Aspera LP, 2012

(Joseph Scurto of Captive Frame request)

 

M & B talk briefly 8:21 PM

 

Frou Frou - Must Be Dreaming

Ladytron - Ghosts -Velocifero, 2008  (Craig Tigwell of Tina & The Hams request)

A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song (M) 

The Normal - T.V.O.D. (M) 

Black Cab - Rotsler’s Rules (Greg)

 

M & B talk briefly 8:43 PM

 

Visage - In the Year 2025 (M)

Eric C. Powell, Andrea Powell - The Bedside Table - Fly Away, 2020 (B)

Parallels - Electrimotion- XII, 2012 (B)

Fawns of Love - Innocence of Protection - Innocence Of Protection, 2021 (B)

 

Madonna - Into the Groove

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Thompson Twins - In the Name of Love

Duran Duran - The Chauffeur (request by Heather Macias)

Thomas Dolby - Europa and the Pirate Twins