What can fans of A Flock of Seagulls expect when they come out to see these shows? The Maine Edge: Your fall tour will begin soon. Mike Score: I wonder what they would have thought about that (laughing)? The Maine Edge: It was cool to see A Flock of Seagulls on the same chart next to Bach and Beethoven. In a sense, there was a feeling of ‘here we go again’ but in a different light. Our main thing was to refresh the songs for the people who like them and give them a new listen. Mike Score: (laughs) To us, it was like “Wow.” To get into any chart after a long time is great. The Maine Edge: When “Ascension” hit the top 10 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart in 2018, what was your reaction? We didn’t want to take away from the catchiness of the songs and get them mired down in big orchestral arrangements. Mike Score: You need to maintain the integrity of the song that people know, and just enhance it by giving it a new angle which the orchestration provided. That must have been intentional on your part, was it? The Maine Edge: Like “Ascension” three years ago, the arrangements for the songs on the new LP “String Theory” don’t stray far from the original versions we know. Being original was one of our biggest goals and I think we managed that in the end. We’ve always tried very hard not to sound like anyone else. Mike Score: Influences change all the time but a lot of the local bands from Liverpool influenced us early on, including great songwriters like The Beatles. Who were some of your biggest musical influences back then? The Maine Edge: Nobody sounded like A Flock of Seagulls when your band first appeared. He explains why he reluctantly agreed to take part in a VH-1 episode of “Reunite the Band” and he gives a preview of A Flock of Seagulls’ upcoming fall tour that will bring Score and a different band lineup to Norwalk, CT, on October 10 and Boston on October 11. Like 2018’s “Ascension,” which hit the top 10 on Billboard’s Classical chart, “String Theory” features brothers Mike and Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, revisiting songs from A Flock of Seagulls’ back catalog enhanced with restrained orchestral arrangements.ĭuring an interview with The Maine Edge, Mike Score explained his intent behind his band’s two recent collaborations with the Prague Philharmonic and also drops news about a probable album of new Seagulls songs for next year. When the Liverpool-based new-wave band A Flock of Seagulls appeared on the scene in the early 1980s with hits “I Ran (So Far Away),” “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You),” and “Space Age Love Song,” they sounded like no one else.įounding member and front man Mike Score’s space-aged haircut from the time may be gone, but the original lineup of the band is intact on the new LP “String Theory” (August Day Records) recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
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