🎶 Live Music: 80s Kids at The Siren

80s Kids run a synthpop joyride at The Siren

The synthpop duo 80s Kids (Shannon Curtis and Jamie Hill) take The Siren on Thursday night, working the era’s essential catalog: a-ha, Erasure, OMD, New Order, Depeche Mode, and Pet Shop Boys, with the synths up and the choruses earning their keep. Doors and dinner at 6:30 PM, music at 7:30 PM. Anyone showing up in 80s gear walks out with a freebie from the merch table.

Synthpop has been quietly working its way back into the touring rotation for the last few years, and Thursday tribute nights at small-room venues have been part of where that revival actually lands. The 80s Kids show splits the difference between a sing-along crowd that knows every word and a younger audience finding the catalog for the first time. The duo format keeps it close to the source material; nothing gets buried under a full band production.

The Siren sits at 900 Main in downtown Morro Bay, a small Main Street room that does well by a show like this: tight stage, close crowd, sound that gives the synth work room without losing the vocal. Most patrons book the night around dinner ahead of the set, and the venue runs a full kitchen and bar through the show.

Tickets are $20 to $25 in advance through tixr.com. Table reservations through monte@thesirenmorrobay.com if you want guaranteed seating for a tribute crowd that tends to fill up. Parking spreads across Main Street and the back blocks.

For more live music, tributes, and theme nights coming up, see the event calendar.