We had loads of ideas - a lot that didn’t work out but paved the way for other songs, and some songs just wrote themselves. “We wanted to be very sonic with great highs and lows be rocky yet robotic,” recalls Score in a January 2018 interview with “We wanted to be diverse like The Beatles but recognizable as our own band. The touring line-up of A Flock of Seagulls in February 2017, with Kevin Rankin, Lucio Rubino, Joe Rodriguez, and original member Mike Score. concert, sponsored by, is free.įounded close to 40 years ago by Score in Liverpool, England - his brother Ali along with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds formed was is still referred to as the band’s classic lineup - A Flock of Seagulls capitalized on the video-fueled New Wave pop music explosion of the early 1980s.Ĭome 1982, with the single “I Ran (So Far Away)” a worldwide hit, the band’s strange name - inspired by a lyric from the 1978 song “Toiler on the Sea” by The Stranglers and the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull - was on the lips of pop music fans around the globe. While the band members’ bizarrely teased hairstyles are long gone - three of the four founding members are now bald - the band is still very much with us, as will be evidenced on Wednesday, July 11th at Del Crary Park as Peterborough Musicfest presents A Flock of Seagulls featuring co-founder Mike Score. There’s no public parking at Del Crary Park, but there’s neighborhood street parking nearby and ample parking in downtown Peterborough. VIP seating available for Sponsors and Fest Friends.
N., Peterborough)īring your own lawn chairs or blankets (lawn chairs are available to rent for $4/chair).