![]() ![]() It’s the only building in its street not turned into flats, with our interview at the home studio in his basement. Mike greets Classic Pop at his impressive townhouse in Liverpool. See you.’ Some brothers go to the pub together, some go, ‘How you doing?’ ‘Great!’ and that’s me and Ali. “But we’re the kind of brothers who just go, ‘How you doing?’ ‘Great! You?’ ‘Yeah, great!’ ‘Cool. “Everyone thinks we hate each other,” laughs Mike, at 61 five years Ali’s junior. Drummer Ali Score is Mike’s brother, so the two meet up at family gatherings – despite long-standing rumours that the siblings never speak. He’s since met up with Frank and guitarist Paul Reynolds to film the new video for the orchestral version of 1982 single Space Age Love Song. Last year, Mike moved back from the US to Liverpool where the band formed. In the meantime, the touring line-up of A Flock Of Seagulls fronted by Mike has been busy playing US festivals. There was a lot of turmoil in the band, which meant the original four members haven’t been in the same room since a short-lived reunion tour in the US in 2003.īut they came together last year to work on music for the first time since 1984, albeit remotely, for the album Ascension – an orchestral reworking of their biggest songs. Mike can afford to be calm about A Flock Of Seagulls’ position. Looking at photos of that first gig where Frank flattened my hair, I thought, ‘That looks pretty alien’, and I tried to bend it towards being more alien.” “There was a bit of David Bowie and Alice Cooper in how the band looked, without copying them. Try to be yourself, because that way people will remember you.’ “I was a little space cadet and I wanted to look like an alien,” Mike explains. With Mike having gone for a virtual mohican at first, bassist Frank Maudsley patted the singer’s hair before an early gig, with the resulting flattened look becoming the unique style former hairdresser Score was after. It’s a well-known story that Score’s trademark “winged” haircut came about largely by accident. They’ve realised there are great songs there.” To me, Kiss’ music is rubbish – but I’d love to see Kiss to see them! Over the years, people have realised that there’s more to us than the image. I get that, because I’m the same with Kiss. “For a long time, people came to see us for the band’s image. “I didn’t think our image ever dominated the music – but I know MTV thought it did,” he admits. It’s a status Mike is relatively comfortable with. To this day, “A Flock Of Seagulls” is used as shorthand for bizarre hair in pop culture referencing the 80s, up to current Netflix smash Stranger Things. In this Flock Of Seagulls interview from 2019, singer Mike Score tells Classic Pop why it was the right time that the band reformed… A Flock of Seagulls interview
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