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SID'80s, also known as Stuck in D'80s, is a retro Commodore 64 rock band playing covers for old Commodore 64 game music written in the 1980s but performed in their own particular style. The band was formed by Andreas Wallstrom and Chris Abbott, the driving force behind the Back in Time Live events and c64audio.com.
The unique thing about this band was that the original members lived in different countries around Europe, getting together on the day of a gig to rehearse and perform later that day. Because of echonomical reasons, members of the current version of the band all live in the United Kingdom.
The line-up has changed for virtually every performance, but the core of the band now consists of:
Ben Daglish - C64 game composer - flute, guitar, wind synth
Jon Hare - famous game designer - guitar
Mark Knight / madfiddler - current game composer/sound designer - electric violin
Jeremy Longley - game programmer - bass guitar
Playing along side them have been:
Andreas Wallstrom - demo scener and webmaster of c64.com - drums
Marcel Donne - remixer - keyboards
Reyn Ouwehand - demo scener and game music composer - bass guitar - keyboards
Matthew Cannon - game composer - keyboards
Among the band's regular repertoire are tunes by Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish himself. Two medleys - Paperboy featuring Arcade Classics (by Mark Cooksey and Rob Hubbard), and The Way of the Exploding Fist featuring International Karate+ (by Neil Brennan and Rob Hubbard) - are also in the setlist.
The band can be found performing at various retro events both in the UK and Europe.
