The Mockers were a successful pop band in the early to mid 80's. They become a household name with their hugely successful single Forever Tuesday Morning

History

The Mockers originally formed in Wellington in 1979 as The Ambitious Vegetables,
Fagan (aka. Crumbed Cutler) renamed the band The Mockers When the original band broke up (the others would surface as The Red around the same time as The Mockers first appered).
The original Mockers line-up was Andrew Fagan, Gary Curtis, Chas Mannell and Dale Moynihan. This line-up lasted until 1982 when the members were variously fired by Fagan. Later members included Murray and Gordon Costello, Brendan Fitzgerald, and Steve Thorpe.
They released three singles over the early years and gigged extensively in the capital before moving to Auckland in 1983. As the bands' reputation grew so did their fan base scoring major gigs like the Sweetwaters Festival and at Auckland institutions such as the Rhumba Bar and The Windsor, then in 1984 The Mockers debut album Swear It's True came out .
The band went from strength to strength playing throughout NZ to a diverse range of audiences from screaming pre-teens through to twenty-somethings, Realising their limited potential in NZ the band decided in 1987 that the best move would be to pack up their belongings and get stuck into the UK market but first, tragedy struck. Long-term drummer Steve Thorpe killed himself. The blow of his loss essentially spelled the demise of the band, eventually going through the motions for a further 3 years in the U.K until their break up.
Fagan stayed in the U.K forming a new band The Ligs and doing the london circuit with limited success.

Trivia

Andrew Fagan won Top Male Vocalist of the Year in the 1985 RIANZ Awards.

Discography

Albums

• 1984 - Swear It's True (LP). Reaction
• 1984 - Caught In The Act (LP). Reaction
• 1985 - Culprit And The King (LP). Reaction
• 1986 - The First Five Years (LP). Reaction
• 1987 - The Emperor's New Clothes (LP). RCA
• 2 July 2007 - Woke Up Today - The Definitive Collection

Other

• 1985 - Video Hits (Video). BCNZ

Band Members

Andrew Fagan
Gary Curtis
Dean Hazelwood
Geoff Hayden
Tim Wedde
Brett Adams
Murry Costello
Gordon Costello
Brendan Fitzgerald
Steve Thorpe
Paul Lightfoot

Relevant Links

The Mockers in the NZMusic Store