I was attracted to the dark side of the Seagulls – things like Suicide Day and Remember David, because that’s what fitted in best with my writing.” “If anyone had an idea we would all work to develop it – the song was the most important thing. Mike Score was the principal songwriter, but Maudsley insists all four contributed to the songs. To begin with they were a tight-knit unit, partially held together by Maudsley’s pranks and wisecracks. The band’s rapid success demanded constant touring and all the pressures and excess that went with it. Mike Score’s iconic hairdo was copied by Chandler from Friends “And that was it – the hairstyle – we massaged it a bit so that it looked a seagull – and that was the look.”ĭespite attracting its fair share of ridicule, the hairstyle made Score and the Seagulls instantly recognisable ’80s icons, on a par with Boy George or Adam Ant. “I didn’t want to go on stage in two minutes looking like a disaster – so I pushed him away from the mirror and the front of his hair went down and the sides went up. Mike was backcombing his hair and we all wanted to get to the mirror to do our hair, get our make-up on,” he remembers. “We were getting ready for a gig in Trinidad, it was in a miserable, dirty old dressing room. It’s a story Maudsley has told many times before, but doesn’t seem to tire of sharing. Key to that look was Score’s outrageous hairstyle, which was created by accident shortly before a gig in the West Indies. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push(,” he explains.”Video Killed The Radio Star – know what I mean?” Happily settled back in his beloved Liverpool, he’s determined not to let a little thing like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy get in the way of the band’s comeback tour. A Flock of Seagulls clockwise: Mike Score, Ali Score, Paul Reynolds and Frank Maudsleyīut now, having first been brought back together by VH1‘s Bands Reunited in 2003, A Flock of Seagulls have returned with Ascension a series of orchestral re-workings of some of their most famous songs, along with a brand new title track.įor bassist Frank Maudsley, however, the band’s revival has been bittersweet, coming not long after he was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening heart condition.
They achieved rapid fame – perhaps too rapid in retrospect, burning brightly but briefly – the original quartet releasing just two albums before imploding in a whirl of breakdowns and inter-band rivalries. With their futuristic sound and frontman Mike Score’s outlandish haircut, A Flock of Seagulls were as synonymous with the eighties as yuppies, ET and DeLorean cars.
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