The Mod Generation

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• Hard Mods
  on Sep 30, 2011 in Archway Mob 60's mods John Leo Waters Hard Mods
  Did they really exist?by John Leo WatersThe term 'Hard Mod' has been bandied around for quite some time now and has almost been given credence as a subculture in its own right. I have been labeled a 'hard mod' (by others I hasten to add) so I felt I...
• Brighton Mod Weekend 2011
  on Sep 17, 2011 in Brighton Mod Weekend Brighton Quadrophenia Glasgow Mods Chris C
  A Trip to Mod Meccaby Chris Cameron Michael, Jim and Chris at The Dorset Well they do say that good things come to those who wait. I had wanted to visit Brighton since I was a 16 year old Mod back in 1980, and last weekend that wait finally ended...
• The Who, The Mods and the 60s
  on Aug 25, 2011 in Boseleys Ballroom The Who Marquee Irish Jack Scene Club Kit Lambert Goldhawk Social Club 60's mods Pete Townshend
  by Irish Jack I went to London when I was 17 years old. Re-emigrated, really. I lived in London as a child with my mum. Her and my dad were always breaking up. He was a classically trained violinist and saxaphone player but was too fond of the Guin...
• 21st Century Mods
  on Jul 27, 2011 in 21st Century Mods Stephen Hughes Italia Mods Moscow Mods
  In the late 50's/early 60's there emerged a desire among British youth to break away from the stiffness of 50's 'fashion' and uncouth look of the Teddy-boys. That desire led to the creation of a movement formed of individuals who wanted to look styli...
• Dig The New Breed
  on Jul 10, 2011 in 21st Century Mods Indonesian Mods Stephen Hughes Singapore Mods Innocenti Mod Swing 11 Jakarta Mods Mayday Bandung Belongs To Us
  Bandung Belongs To Us, Indonesia The Wikipedia definition of Mod states that it is a subculture that originated in London, England, in the late 1950s and peaked in the early-to-mid 1960s. There was a mod revival in the United Kingdom in the late 1970...
• The Mods Book Discography
  on Jul 10, 2011 in Stephen Hughes Mods book Mod Music Richard Barnes
  The Mods book, compiled by Richard Barnes, is as close as there is to a 'Mod Bible'. As a good friend of Pete Townshend, Richard Barnes had a perfect insight into the mod movement at it's peak and, in the Mods book, provides as accurate a portray...
• The First Mods I Saw
  on Jul 10, 2011 in Robert Nicholls 60's mods Lyceum Ballroom Ian Samwell Teddy Boys Jeff Dexter The Twist
  by Robert Nicholls Part 1: Early Modernist Fashions Lyceum Ballroom, Aldwych A case can be built for London dance palais being the spawning ground of Mod, rather than R&B clubs as conventional wisdom suggests. I, like many fledgling Mods...
• Glasgow Mods Weekender 2011
  on Jul 10, 2011 in Stephen Hughes Big Boss Man Glasgow Mods Glasgow Mods Weekender
  MODS! Over 400 of them filed into the Balcony Bar of Strathclyde Uni for Saturday night of the 9th annual Glasgow Mods Weekender, making it one of the biggest nights in the history of the event - and the number of young, very sharply dressed mods amo...
• The Tamla Motown Appreciation Society
  on Jun 23, 2011 in Tamla Motown Appreciation Society Motown Robert Nicholls Dave Godin Berry Gordy
  (by Robert Nicholls) TMAS badge courtesy of Alvaro Rubio Sometime in 1964 I joined Dave Godin’s Tamla Motown Appreciation Society (TMAS) of the UK although I have long since lost my TMAS membership card and other insignia. The membership badge wa...
• Top 100
  on Jun 8, 2011 in Blue Beat Rhythm and Blues Ska Motown Mod Music Northern Soul Blues John Leo Waters
  (John Leo Waters' Top 100 tunes from back in the day) I have tried to be objective in my choices. Whilst I love every track listed I have picked tracks that take me back to that period between 1964 and 1967 when I felt that the Mod influence was a...

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