3 What can Mockers fans expect from your upcoming live shows?
An authentic rendition of The Mockers as we musically were in the 1980s.
4 The way fans listen to music is changing all the time. What do you think the industry will look like in a few years' time — can you foresee any major changes or trends?
No major changes. There will always be music and musicians people enjoy. Live performances will remain the important life-affirming experiences they always have been.
How we source our music and experience it may alter with technology, but how we primarily emotionally experience it will remain the same.
5 Who or what excites you most about the New Zealand music scene?
I'm not really paying enough attention to the NZ music scene at the moment to be able to answer this. I'm more introspectively focusing on my own new material.
The Mockers reunited for a tour early last year. Photo / Michael Flynn
6 What is your favourite song to perform live and why?
Messiah with Fagan And The People. And on this current short tour Take Back Your Tears, The Mockers.
7 You can only fit one album by another artist on your device — what is it?
My Bloody Valentine Loveless.
8 You're curating a music festival — who's on the bill, alive or dead?
Elvis when he was over-weight and on prescription pills, The Who when Keith Moon was still alive, Queen when Freddie wore black nail polish, Hendrix ...
It will have a chopper pad on the top for exclusive guests and I'm thinking about calling it 'The Swear It's True Wing' ...
Bonus question: Do you ever wake up the day after Monday and not think about that one song?
Yes I do wake up the day after Monday and not think of that song Forever Tuesday Morning.
Usually that is always the case.
•The Mockers will perform in Tauranga at Totara St on March 1, Wellington at San Fran on March 3 and at Auckland's Tuning Fork on March 4, with support from Gareth Thomas. The CD/DVD will be released on February 23.
