A Flock of Seagulls last flew into town three years ago. By all reports it was a great show. The only problem most people said they had was reconciling the music with the men onstage.

Instead of hearing I Ran coming out of the mouth of Mike Score -- a young, swoop-hair-styled freak -- audiences were instead treated to the tune coming from Mike Score -- middle-aged casually-clad rock dude.

"You can't always look like you did 20 years ago," Score says with a sigh.

"Those people need to go look in a mirror with a photo of how they looked 20 years ago. I don't want to look like a my-age kind of dork trying to do my hair up like I did back then."

No, these days Score and the band he tours with as A Flock of Seagulls -- they stop at Broken City tonight for a pair of shows -- are more of a guitar-based rock band than an '80s synth outfit, reflecting the fact he's moved on from the band he started with his brother, Ali, in Liverpool more than two decades ago.

He knows he couldn't use the name without tossing out hits such as I Ran, Telecommunication and Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You).

But he also makes sure those who show up get a healthy dose of what he's been doing lately.

"They do get to hear the big hits which obviously they like, but I think it also shows, from the shows we've been doing, a lot of the new songs are easily as good as the old ones -- they just haven't heard them as much," Score says.

"The style has changed a little bit, but the core sound and the core feeling of A Flock of Seagulls is still there."

That core is pretty much just him and his voice, with the rest of the sound filled out by musicians he considers friends.

As for the original Seagulls, they did reunite recently, thanks to the VH1 series Bands Reunited, and a short reunion tour followed.

But while he plans on heading back overseas soon for a "three-quarter members tour," Score says the reunion -- or rather being reunited with guitarist Paul Reynolds -- made him happy to focus his energy on the current lineup.

"When you reach my age and you're doing music you want it to be fun, you don't want to go through the hassle of carrying someone else's baggage around from gig-to-gig," he says, calling Reynolds a "casualty."