The Mockers

aka Ambitious Vegetables


Ancient Times: The Mockers live across Auckland 1984–1985

I had been a long time Mockers fan, first seeing them at The Windsor Castle on the Cleopatra tour. There had been clips on Radio With Pictures but nothing prepared me for their live a...

Mockers Reflect

In the mid-1980s The Mockers were one of the biggest bands in the land before three of the members headed overseas to eventual oblivion. But unlike The (Dance) Exponents – their conte...

The Mockers: Going Up, 1984

First published in Rip It Up, August 1984  -- The Mockers are feeling a little spoiled. After years of folding themselves in the back of vans or, more recently, squeezing into a min...

The Man Who Would Be STAR

First published in Rip It Up, April 1984.  -- It's been a long time coming. Six years, four moderately successful singles and several line-changes on, The Mockers have completed the...

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