That being said, I would totally go back to it in a heartbeat, if only my hair were short enough to support the weight. That look is cool, man.
Mike is no longer in the group???
It is hardly the Flock anymore as all the others have long gone.
I thought Mike was the only member that wanted to keep the project going.
These reunion type tours worry me. I just want you to be careful if anybody sets off some fireworks.
BAH! I am so pissed. The played I Ran twice. Good song, but really one time was enough. The guitarist was the only one who didn’t wear a baseball cap. He had really frizzy hair but it actually looked natural, so there wasn’t anything to make fun of. His hair may have been the only one with potential to get caught in the ceiling fans. Everyone else had their hair pulled back and wore a baseball cap. It made me cry. I wanted to see some funny hair from the band. Luckily the patrons had some pretty unintentionally funny hair.
Anyway, they were playing at the 930 club which is a local venue. It is mid sized and pretty dingy as rock clubs tend to be. It was a good show overall.
Flock of Seagulls opened, then Modern English, and then Berlin. I was there to make fun of the hair and listen to some 80’s music that I like to listen to.
Anyway, the lead singer of Modern English was some queen working the crowd who looked like a friend of mine’s grandfather. :eek: However, my friend’s grandfather is much less queeny. They kept saying that they weren’t an 80’s band but it sure could have fooled me. It didn’t seem that their musicianship had grown any except maybe that they played tighter. The sound was pure 80’s. Especially their song, according to them, about herpes, “Blister.” They had a ton of new songs that sounded just like all the other 80’s things and then they played 2 or 3 songs from 20 years ago.
Berlin came on last. They really were the best. The lead singer woman had hair like Hedwig (from Hedwig and the Angry Inch) after Hedwig put on the blond wig atop the black wig in the scene where she started playing with the Korean women at the ice cream shop. The keyboard/sampler player had that funky spikey do that I remembered. The drummer was hot in a goth type of way, and the guitarist had guitar mouth. It made me laugh. Anyway, the singer moved around like a man and ended every song with her arms up in the air and looking towards the ceiling. It was ok but started to seem like old dreck. Of course, they played modern stuff as well as a good bit of their older songs. Take My Breath Away was a crowd favourite.
Anyway, I am glad I went. No one played Freebird though. 
Wasn’t Berlin’s singer Terri Nunn? She was hot.
So they played I Ran twice? At least they know what got them there, but they could’ve at least done a parody the second time around and played I Raq…
In one of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming wrote that the only valuable product from seagulls is guano. The entire career of A Flock Of Seagulls has proved him right again and again.
I bet they’ve earned more in royalties from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City than anything they’ve done since the “I Ran” days.
When I read your OP, I said to myself “I’d pay money to see Berlin.”
Glad to learn from your follow-up post that Berlin has still got it.
Bad musicienship?? “Melt With You” is a great song!
I don’t know if maybe AFOS got back together or something. But when I was last in contact, Mike Score was not part of the group and instead had his own rock band based in New Orleans, I believe.
Trigonal, Melt With You is a great song. It must have been their apex though. Everything else they played was forgetable. I seem to remember another hit out there somewhere by them.
Berlin really was the highlight of the evening. They played well and the funky spikey hair was worthy of the book I linked to in the OP.