Who Loves Who The Most ? The Luck Of The Jordans

The Kiwi musician and his alter-ego are so in tune!

- Carmen Lichi

Despite 27 years between them, Jordan Luck and Jordan Mooney have an undeniable kinship which goes way further than a taste for sharp suits.

Swaggering for the camera in Auckland’s iconic Kings Arms pub, the duo, both self-declared extroverts with a love of the limelight, are in their element.

“Let’s go beak to beak,” declares Jordan Luck, lead singer of ’80s rockers The Exponents, one of New Zealand’s most-loved bands.

The other Jordan, an actor who stars in Outrageous Fortune prequel series Westside and Netflix fantasy drama The Legend of Monkey, willingly obliges, before effortlessly hoisting his nimble 28-year-old frame on to the bar ledge.

“Oh, to be young,” sighs Jordan senior, who has played dozens of gigs in the historic venue, sadly due to be demolished later this year. “They say time speeds up as you get older, but it doesn’t at all. It slows down.”

The Canadian-born, Geraldine-raised singer, now based in Christchurch after splitting from wife Rita earlier this year, has done a lot of living in his 54 years – from opening for David Bowie to getting kicked off tour with Australian band The Divinyls.

Clocking up 18 Top 40 hits, including “Victoria” and “Why Does Love Do This to Me?”, with its iconic “I don’t know-oh-oh-oh” chorus, the band’s camaraderie and colourful rock’n’roll antics are precisely why director Danny Mulheron decided to make a movie about the group originally known as The Dance Exponents.