Michael, Albert, Sefa and Stanley, the heroes of the hit 2006 movie Sione's Wedding, return to the screen - not as adults, but as a teenage gang, back where it all began. It's the 1980s - long before the wedding that threatened to break up the Duckrockers. The TV series starts when the four BFFs go to the 1984 DD Smash gig in Aotea Square that ended in the infamous "Queen Street riot". When a newspaper headline blames it on 'drunk Polynesian schoolboys', the four need an alibi - fast! Arts Laureate Oscar Kightley was Albert in Sione's Wedding 1 and 2. In the TV prequel Duckrockers he plays Albert's father Issac. He's also co-written the TV series with James Griffin and has directed it. Teuila Blakely who played Sefa's partner Lelani in the movies now plays her Mum, Lana. She also has a writing credit and is Associate Producer on the show. She tells Lynn Freeman that when James suggested a prequel, it just felt perfect: Duckrockers goes to air on TVNZ 2 and on TVNZ+ on November 2nd