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Pretend you are a promoter. You can have any 6 acts play at your festival. Living or dead, you name the bands and they will perform from their prime year/s. Who are they? List 1-6 with #1 the opener.
1) Tears for Fears
2) Missing Persons
3) Spandau Ballet
4) Flock of Seagulls
5) The Cars
6) DEVO

1. Thompson Twins
2. Blondie
3. Souxsie & the Banshees
4. The Pretenders
5. The Cure
6. Peter Gabriel

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DayGloJo

Using a real time period with bands that existed at the time:

1982

1. The Smiths
2. Heaven 17
3. The Human League
4. ABC
5. Japan
6. Roxy Music[8D]

1983

1. Wall of Voodoo
2. A Flock of Seagulls
3. Bauhaus
4. The-The
5. Kraftwerk
6. David Bowie

1979

6. Iggy Pop
5. The Ramones
4. The Jam
3. The Stranglers
2. Tom Robinson Band
1. The Clash

The Jam
The Clash
The The
Echo and the Bunnymen
Yaz
New Order
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I know that is 7 but I couldn't help it.

1. Haircut 100
2. Missing Persons
3. Yaz
4. ABC
5. Split Enz
6. Berlin

I would have the original MTV vj's mc the gig

From a purely fun danceable show point of view:

1. Blondie
2. Ramones
3. B52s
4. Lene Lovich
5. Plimsouls
6. Romantics

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
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1. Blondie
2. B-52s
3. Ramones
4. Lene Lovich
5. Plimsouls
6. Romantics

would

Assuming all original members are in fighting form:

1. ABC
2. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
3. Smiths
4. INXS
5. A Flock of Seagulls
6. Big Country

I saw all of the above back in the day except for the Smiths and ABC and they all put on great s

in no particular order of line-up:

1) Kraftwerk
2) Killing Joke
3) Big Country
4) Bauhaus
5) Echo & The Bunnymen
6) Nitzer Ebb

mine are coming from all different styles… I'm afraid I might've accidentally set off a formula for backstage fights.

yeah, those echo & the bunnymen guys send a shiver up my spine.

1. Human League
2. Real Life
3. The Fixx
4. Eurythmics
5. Pet Shop Boys
6. The Cure

Kim baby, you [i]never[/i] cease to amaze me...kinda on the same level as that weird thing growin outta the neighbor's dog's butt...you know you're probably gonna be revolted but you just gotta look anyhow...

A totally dead-led festival:
1) Ian Dury & The Blockheads
2) Big Country
3) Lords Of The New Church
4) The Clash
5) The Waitresses

..cause we'll never see them again