Forever Tuesday Morning
19.05.09
The Mockers were hugely successful in an early-mid 80s New Zealand, obsessed with the then current crop of British pop acts.
Lead singer Andrew Fagan's vocals along with a rotating cast of support men, were specifically notable for the hit's One Black Friday and Forever Tuesday Morning.
The band initially formed in 1979 as The Ambitious Vegetables, a highly visible member of the Wellington terrace community with the line-up of Fagan, Gary Curtis, Dean Hazelwood, Geoff Hayden, Tim Wedde and Brett Adams.
Fagan (who had gone by the pseudonym 'crumbed cutler' in usual punk fashion) redubbed the band The Mockers.
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
Their hit single Forever Tuesday Morning was released in 1984 and features on the APRA Top 100 NZ Songs Of All Time list at number 75.
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Forever Tuesday Morning, a genuine Kiwi classic.
