synthmachine

"Synthmachine Logo copyright Synthmachine, 2014""Synthmachine Live at the Alex, photo Jon Allen, 2019-04-12"

Synthmachine in 2024

Current songs we are learning and reworking to bring back into the set

New:

Banarama - Cruel Summer

Erasure - Sometimes

Revisiting:

Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters

Yazoo - Only You

2024 Showreel

We've compiled some photos, video clips, and songs to make a new Showreel

Synthmachine are:

A 3-piece 80's synth covers band, Julienne, Dom and Chris have played together in bands for over 12 years, previously as a rock covers band but, in 2014, we decided to move the band in a totally new direction, and started working on the 80's synth covers we are now performing live.

We've been totally blown away by the popularity of what we're doing now, and we've been perfecting the sounds to get the authentic synth sounds of the 80's.

Perfect for birthday parties, weddings, corporate gigs, public and private events, we provide a show unlike any other, with professional integrated lighting and full PA system.

We can take you back to the charts from the 1980's with covers by artists including Depeche Mode, OMD, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Eurythmics, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Human League and many more...

Synthmachine do Classic '80s Synthpop:

Think: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Gary Numan, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, Erasure, A-Ha, Yazoo, The Communards, Soft Cell, Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Tears For Fears, Cameo

Live at The Squirrel Inn

The hottest September day in 2023 so far, and our 101st gig (we think)

https://www.facebook.com/thesquirrelrugby/videos/322992120306479/

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2024 Events

March 2024

March 16th 2024

The Live and Let Live, Larkhall Lane, Harpole, Northampton NN7 4DP

April 2024

Saturday April 13th 2024

London Calling 11/13 Castle St, Rugby CV21 2TP

Saturday April 20th 2024 from 9pm

The Squirrel Inn, Church Street, Rugby CV21 3PU

May 2024

Sunday May 5th 2024 - 16.30 to 17.10 Doors open at 4pm

MorganFest 5 - The Squirrel Inn, Church Street, Rugby CV21 3PU

"Morganfest 5 poster"

Synthmachine will start off MorganFest 5 at 4.30pm on Sunday May 5th

June 2024

Saturday June 1st 2024

The Ale Pole, 30 Sheaf St, Daventry NN11 4AB

July 2024

Friday July 5th 2024 6pm

Napton Festival, Napton On The Hill, Southam, Warwickshire, CV47 8LS

Saturday July 13th OR Sunday July 14th - Date and Time To Be Confirmed

Crick Music Festival, Bury Dyke, Crick, United Kingdom, NN6 7XA

August 2024

Saturday August 3rd 2024

The Squirrel Inn, Church Street, Rugby CV21 3PU

September 2024

Saturday September 14th 2024

London Calling 11/13 Castle St, Rugby CV21 2TP

November 2024

Saturday November 16th 2024

London Calling 11/13 Castle St, Rugby CV21 2TP

Live Recordings Videos and Photos

Synthmachine Lockdown Videos

Recorded at our separate homes, using mobile phones, and playing along separately to a "live" recoding from one of our gigs, then mixed by Ju and compiled into a lockdown video

  • The Communards ; Don't Leave Me This Way (cover version) COVID-19 Lockdown Version

  • Aha : Take On Me (Cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

  • Depeche Mode : Just Can't Get Enough (Cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark : Enola Gay (Cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

  • Pet Shop Boys : Always On My Mind (Cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

  • Kraftwerk : The Model (Cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

  • Tears For Fears : Shout (cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

  • Gary Numan : Cars (Cover version) - COVID-19 Lockdown version

Synthmachine YouTube Channel

  • Live (sound) recording at The Bell and Barge, December 10, 2015 of OMD's Maid of Orleans. Photos are from gigs at The Squirrel and The Web Ellis in Rugby.

  • Live cover of Kraftwerk's The Model - sound recording from The Milestone, Sheffield, April 16th 2016

  • Studio recording of Gary Numan's Are Friends Electric - Julienne did some graphics, and Dom turned the graphics and music into a video

Synthmachine Live at Daxtonbury performing Blue Monday

  • punkroksal recorded us playing the Daxtonbury Festival on Sunday 1th July 2017

Synthmachine doing A-Ha's Take On Me at Hook Norton Festival, 2018

  • Our friend Tim Yorath took this video at the 2018 Hook Norton Festival of Fine Beers

Synthmachine Live Videos on Youtube by MegaStrangeWorld (Max Amos)

  • Max recorded our performance of OMD's Enola Gay at our first gig at The Alex, in Rugby in April 2019

  • Synthmachine perform "The Model" at The Wheeltapper, Rugby on Friday 10th May 2019

  • Synthmachine perform "It's A Sin" at The Squirrel Inn, Rugby - Sunday 12th May 2019

  • Max captures Synthmachine covering Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts" and Aha's "Take On Me" live at The Squirrel Inn, Rugby - Saturday July 13th 2019

Recordings on ReverbNation

  • Depeche Mode's Everything Counts from the December 10th gig at The Bell and Barge, Rugby

  • OMD's Enola Gay from the December 10th gig at The Bell and Barge, Rugby

  • Kraftwerk's The Model recorded April 2016 at The Milestone, Crystal Peaks, Sheffield

Photos

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