The Band That Brings The ‘80s Back to Life!

Max Headroom is Nashville’s top party band—a five-piece blast-off back to the go-go ‘80s when pop titans Madonna, Prince, Joan Jett, the B-52s, Billy Idol, Bryan Adams and Rick Springfield walked the Earth, ruled the charts and made music video the hottest thing on TV.

Named after the iconic “talking head” from MTV, Max Headroom provides hours of memorable music and high-energy fun from a hit list runs the gamut of colorful ‘80s awesomeness. The era was fertile ground for a wide variety of music, much of which has endured and even increased in popularity on classic rock radio, at fraternity parties, on movie soundtracks and in TV commercials. From the band’s beginnings in 2002, its mission was to tap into that rich vein of highly recognizable, time-honored, true-tested ‘80s hits that almost everyone knows. You’re not going to hear any mopey, singer-songwriter shoe-gazing, soul-bearing confessional noodling at a Max Headroom show. This is a band that comes out firing with ‘80s songs you remember, invites the audience to jump into the fun and keeps the pedal down to the end.

With a repertoire of so many songs it’s impossible get to them all on any given night, Max Headroom covers a wide swath of the anything-goes ‘80s, which brought about the marriage of “audio” and “video” in a way that had never been done before. MTV delivered a rainbow of wild, wacky, wonderful images and a waterfall of exciting new sounds into everyone’s living room. Movies like “The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “16 Candles,” “Saint Elmo’s Fire,” “Flashdance,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Eddie and Cruisers,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Footloose” married great ‘80s soundtrack songs to images and have become durable movie classics on cable TV. It was a magical decade, a cultural flashpoint—a big blender that stirred up a cocktail that still says “good times!”

Max Headroom’s set list includes…

“Chick” songs from Madonna (“Material Girl”), Cyndi Lauper (“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”), Joan Jett (“I Love Rock & Roll”), Blondie (“One Way or Another”), Scandal (“Goodbye to You”), Pat Benatar (“Hit Me With Your Best Shot”), Chrissie Hyde and The Pretenders (“Brass in Pocket”), Lita Ford (“Kiss Me Deadly”), the Go Go’s (“We Got the Beat”), Katrina and the Waves (“Walking on Sunshine”), Bananarama (“Venus”), Nena (“99 Red Balloons”)…

Big Signature Hits from Poison (“Nothing But a Good Time”), Def Leppard (“Pour Some Sugar”), Bon Jovi (“You Give Love a Bad Name”), Journey (“Any Way You Want It”), Billy Idol (“Dancing With Myself”), Guns ‘n’ Roses (“Sweet Child O’ Mine”), The Outfield (“Your Love”), John Cougar Mellencamp (“Jack and Diane”), Bryan Adams (“Summer of ‘69”), AC/CD (“You Shook Me”), Prince (“Let’s Go Crazy”), Loverboy (“Working for the Weekend”), Rick Springfield (“Jessie’s Girl”), Vanilla Ice (“Ice Ice Baby”)…

Movie Soundtrack Memories like “Footloose,” “On the Dark Side,” “Purple Rain,” “Take My Breath Away,” “Don’t You Forget About Me”…

… and FM Party Classics by Bow Wow Wow (“I Want Candy”), the Cure (“Just Like Heaven”), Tommy Tutone (“Jenny Jenny”), the Romantics (“What I Like About You”), B-52s (“Love Shack”), Soft Cel (Tainted Love”), Flock of Seagulls (“I Ran)”, Madness (“Our House”), Dexy’s Midnight Runners (“Come On Eileen”), Corey Hart (“Sunglasses at Night”), Eurythmics (“Sweet Dreams Are Made of These”), Gary Neuman (“Cars”), Tiffany (“I Think We’re Alone Now”), Violent Femmes (“Blister in the Sun”), U2 (“Desire”), the Beastie Boys (“Fight for Your Right to Party”)

If you loved the ‘80s, you’ll love Max Headroom!

Set List

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER / Blondie
WE GOT THE BEAT / Go Gos
BLISTER IN THE SUN / Violent Femmes
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT / Pat Benetar
JUST LIKE HEAVEN / The Cure
KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF / Georgia Satellites
I LOVE ROCK & ROLL / Joan Jett
MELT WITH YOU / Modern English
PURPLE RAIN / Prince
WALKIN' ON SUNSHINE / Katrina and the Waves
JESSIE'S GIRL / Rick Springfield
99 RED BALLOONS / Nena
DESIRE / U2
DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME / Simple Minds
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU / Romantics
I WANT CANDY / Bow Wow Wow
COME ON EILEEN / Dexy's Midnight Runners
DANCIN WITH MYSELF / Billy Idol
MATERIAL GIRL / Madonna
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN / Bangles
JENNY JENNY (867-5309) / Tommy Tutone
LOVE SHACK / B52s
TAINTED LOVE / Soft Cell
SHOULD I STAY / Clash
GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN / Cyndi Lauper
I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU / Joan Jett
OH MICKEY / Toni Basil
WORKIN' FOR THE WEEKEND / Loverboy
TIME AFTER TIME / Cyndi Lauper
MONY MONY / Billy Idol
YOU MAY BE RIGHT / Billy Joel
AND I RAN / Flock of Seagulls
VENUS / Bananarama
JACK AND DIANE / John Cougar Mellencamp
YOUR LOVE / The Outfield
BRASS IN POCKET / The Pretenders
YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME / Bon Jovi
OUR HOUSE / Madness
DARK SIDE / Eddie and the Cruisers
GOODBYE TO YOU / Scandal
YOU SPIN ME ROUND / Dead of Alive
SUMMER OF '69 / Bryan Adams
NOTHING BUT A GOOD TIME / Poison
SWEET CHILD OF MINE / Guns n Roses
POUR SOME SUGAR / Def Leppard
YOU SHOOK ME / AC/DC
LET'S GO CRAZY / Prince
THE TIDE IS HIGH / Blondie
KISS ME DEADLY / Lita Ford

Here are some new songs added just recently:

Brick House- The Commodores
Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
Hot Blooded- Foreigner
Somekinda Wonderful- Grand Funk Railroad
Wonderful Tonight- Eric Clapton
Superfreak/You Can’t Touch This- Rick James/MC Hammer
New Sensation- INXS
Play That Funky Music- Wild Cherry
Hard To Handle- The Black Crowes
Word Up- Cameo

My Sharona- The Knacks
I Will Survive- Gloria Gaynor
Hot Stuff- Donna Summers
Bad Company- Shooting Star
We’re An American Band- GFR
My Generation- The Who
Hot Legs and She’s Got Legs Medley- Rod Stewart and ZZ Top

Lights- Journey
Radio Free Europe- REM
Workin’ For A Livin- Huey Lewis
Medley of Notorious, Rio and Hungry Like The Wolf- Duran Duran
The Police
Bruce Springstein- Glory Days
Livin’ On A Prayer- Bon Jovi

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)- C&C Music Factory
Under The Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers
It’s My Life- No Doubt [Remake]
One Headlight- The Wallflowers
Are You Gonna Go My Way- Lenny Kravitz
1971- Smashing Pumpkins
Basketcase- Green Day

Hot & Cold- Katy Perry
S.O.S- Rihanna [Uses Tainted Love music]…mix with original Tainted Love
Get This Party Started- Pink
The Killers- Mr. Brightside or All These Things That I’ve Done
The Ting Tings?

Drift Away- Dobie Gray
Everything I Do (I Do It For You)- Bryan Adams (‘90s)
Stand By Me- Ben E. King
Dock Of The Bay- Otis Redding
My Girl- The Temptations (’67) (Jordan to sing)