New Zealand Listener

Pop & I, the sailor

You’d be hard-pressed to lure Andrew Fagan away from the sea. Even when the Listener calls for a chat about him going back to his old job as frontman for 80s band The Mockers, he’s skippering a barge that’s helping with construction at the Kopu Bridge near Thames.

Once upon a time, he and wife Karyn Hay lived on a boat on the original Thames, after the band had done their dash in New Zealand and tried to establish themselves in the UK.

Coming home, a sailing-instructor sideline to

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