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.
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“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. 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.
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