The reason Paul joined is he understood about restraint, where so many guitarists want to blast everything at you.”Ī Flock Of Seagulls’ self-titled 1982 debut album featured their biggest worldwide hit, I Ran (So Far Away), as well as DNA, which won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental. Paul understood that meant there wasn’t enough going on in the song, and he was brilliant at fitting in his echoey guitar parts that didn’t disturb the vocal. “When I sang, I’d hold one note on a synth. Trying to combine singing with playing keyboards led to Mike’s distinctive minimal style. “Frank was saying, ‘It sounds good when you sing it,’ but I thought, ‘We’re still looking for a singer.’” “Because I wrote the songs, in rehearsals I’d say, ‘The vocal should go something like this’ and start singing, but only so we could understand how to play it,” laughs Mike. They got through “six or seven” guitarists before Paul Reynolds auditioned, and they were initially looking for a singer, too. Within three hours of first rehearsing, we had a song.” ![]() “As soon as we started messing around, good things started to happen. “Ali had never played drums, Frank had never played bass, but within an hour they both could,” enthuses Mike. Ali casually said he’d love to be a drummer. On the rebound, Mike bought his first synth, a mono MS-10, so his workmate Frank suggested taking over on bass. ![]() Mike was the bassist in his previous band, sacked when they got a record contract only to be told Mike’s playing didn’t fit in. The crackling atmosphere of A Flock Of Seagulls’ music initially came about by accident. Making Ascension brought back a lot of memories, to when we were in our rehearsal room 35 years ago.” Read more: Top 40 synth-pop songs Read more: New Order – Album By Album It didn’t work out, but there was certainly some of the old magic there. “Doing that TV show, the same problems that had taken five or six years to arise first time round, they came up in two weeks,” says Mike. ![]() It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween, and if your friends would understand the reference, $20 is a totally reasonable cost to dominate any costume party, so get a wig for yourself here.The abortive reunion tour in 2003 came on the back of appearing in VH1 show Bands Reunited, where A Flock Of Seagulls joined the likes of The Alarm, Haircut One Hundred and Kajagoogoo in reforming, 19 years after third album The Story Of A Young Heart in 1984. Sadly, Score wasn’t rocking his signature hair in that video, so here’s “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” for your viewing pleasure: The wig is selling for just $20, and it “will fit most adults.” For the young’uns among is who don’t quite know who A Flock of Seagulls are, it’s likely you’ve come across “I Ran” before: The accuracy does come with a caveat, though: The same reviewer said that “a lot of people will ask to take pictures with you so be warned.” The artificial do is totally convincing: One reviewer wrote that he wore the wig to an A Flock of Seagulls concert, and said that people “lost their minds when they saw” it and thought it was his real hair. But now, the struggle is over, as has won the battle with their Mike Score wig ( via Dangerous Minds), which looks absolutely amazing: ![]() File this one under products that arrived 35 years too late, but are still too wonderful to avoid today: In the early 80s, new wave/synthpop group A Flock of Seagulls set the game ablaze with both their upbeat hits and lead singer Mike Score’s upright hair, with its iconic styling of wings on the side and a pronounced downward swoop in the middle.īack in the day, many tried and failed to emulate the style: It’s hard, and there’s a lot of hair product used in this fight against gravity.
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