In a way it’s exciting and it’s kind of puzzling. You’ve got the original sounding feel from the 80s, kind of, but now it’s got this smoothness from an orchestra. It’s a different direction and a different feel. We never actually got to record with the orchestra. We had an orchestral arrangement set up for us so we knew what was going to be going on with the orchestra. So, we were all actually in different studios and we all played our parts.
#I ran flock of seagulls hair full#
They said ‘can we use the other guys too?’ And I said ‘We were all there, the four of us, when those songs were written so now that it’s coming full circle and going in a different direction, I’m like ‘yeah, let’s all get back together.’ It was kind of strange but because of technology now you can be together but not together, you know. How did that come about?Ī: To me, (recording with an orchestra) was one of the furthest things from my mind. It was the first studio recording with you four since 1984. Q: In 2018, the four original Flock of Seagulls band members did a recording (of some of their hit songs) with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. I used to wake up in the morning and say ‘today I’m going to write a song’ and I didn’t know what would come out. And because they wrote such different songs all the time, I think that also put in me as a writer that you can write about anything.
You had to be up there trying to reach that kind of level. You really felt like you had to do something good. Of course you are from Liverpool and the Beatles are from Liverpool so I’m wondering how much they might have influenced you?Ī: I think it was a total influence because coming from Liverpool and having the Beatles being the biggest band in the world and the best band in the world. Q: I can remember people really enjoying (A Flock of Seagulls) because it was new and it was different and it was probably like the way people felt in the early 60s when they first heard the Beatles. So, thank you U-2 for stealing our stuff (laughs). He says once he listened to what we were doing he picked it up and enhanced it into U-2 stuff. U-2 was kind of…Ī: Well, if you read (U-2 guitarist) the Edge’s book, he actually says he got his sound from listening to us. We had never heard anything like it in the early 80s. Even in our first few months together, we were developing our own look and our own sound. Once we got into that a little bit, it became more about writing songs of our own than trying to sound like other bands. I actually used to like the sound of it out of tune because I could write songs that were different.
#I ran flock of seagulls hair how to#
It took me about a year to learn how to tune a guitar. I’d look up on stage and go ‘I could do that.’ I got with my brother (Ali Score) and he said ‘oh, I’d like to be a drummer.’ I got with a couple of friends (including Paul Reynold on guitar and Frank Maudsley on bass) and we started jamming. I got talking to them and started to go see them play live. So, when I got into hairdressing, people from bands would come in and want hair colors and stuff like that. So, I’d be riding around, singing along, delivering papers.
I used to have a little transistor radio on my bike blasting out the top 40 and stuff. Question: How did you go from being a hairdresser to a musician and recording artist?Īnswer: I’ve always been interested in music even when I used to do my paper route when I was about (age) 12. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. This week Mike Score spoke with the Trib in a video chat from Philadelphia. A Flock of Seagulls is on a tour that brings them to Jergel’s Rhythm Grille on Wednesday.
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