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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...
• Mod Ska
  on May 19, 2011 in Ska Mod Music Prince Buster Rocksteady Bluebeat John Leo Waters
  (John Leo Waters' Top 50 Ska tunes from back in the day) Having read 'Doctor Robert’s' excellent article on Ska/Blue Beat and noticing the discussions that followed it I got to thinking about my favourite Ska/Bluebeat records from the sixties Mod...
• The Mod Revival
  on May 9, 2011 in The Jam Paul Weller Purple Hearts Mod Revival Chris C Secret Affair
  by Chris Cameron NME Mod article At the start of 1979 few people in my age bracket would have even heard of Mods. But by the end of that year everyone was aware of exactly what a Mod was. A full scale Mod revival had burst on to the youth scene i...
• Diary of a Mod Girl
  on Apr 1, 2011 in Zani Tracey Wilmott Mod Revival Secret Affair Mod Girls
  by Tracy Dawn Wilmott trACEy As a child of the Sixties, my mother raised me on a diet of Elvis and The Beatles. My young mother certainly helped create an affiliation with Sixties culture due to the music I heard as a child. But it took me a...
• Rob The London Mod
  on Mar 25, 2011 in Slim Harpo The Block Robert Nicholls Scene Club Guy Stevens Ronan O'Rahilly 60's mods GS Scooter
  Robert Nicholls is one of the originals, a true face of the London Mod scene. Although he left Britain in the early '70s he has never forgotten his time as a London Mod in the 60's and wishes to share those memories with other aged Mods (like himself...
• Poll Results 2010
  on Feb 16, 2011 in Poll Results
  The Best of 2010 What's your opinion? You can discuss the results in the forum HERE. BEST EVENT Glasgow Mods Weekend 16% of vote Brighton Weekend Euro Ye Ye Le Beat Bespoke 6 Chords reunion gigs...
• Brighton Rock
  on Feb 8, 2011 in Stephen Hughes Brighton Brighton Rock Quadrophenia Mod movies
  Both Quadrophenia and Brighton Rock open with a shot of the sea and, in each, the main character's final scenes are set on the towering white cliffs of the South Coast. In essence both of these films contain the story of a psychologically disturbed...
• Belfast and the Mod Revival
  on Feb 8, 2011 in Belfast Mods Mod Revival Solid Bond Scooter Club
  You can find lots of pics and info as well as a comprehensive list of mod events in the city from the Belfast Mods on Facebook There's also many great photos and details of scootering and mod events throughout Northern Ireland on the site of the S...
• Black & White & Blue (beat)
  on Feb 5, 2011 in Blue Beat Ska Rocksteady La Discotheque
  (by Robert Nicholls) The original mod era encompassed the early days of London’s influx of black migrants from the West Indies which started in the 1950s following the initial arrival of the SS Windrush from Jamaica in 1948. By the early 1960s th...
• Brighton Mod Weekend 2010
  on Feb 2, 2011 in The Chords Brighton Mod Weekend Stephen Hughes New Untouchables
  Brighton 2010 - where to begin?!? How about 8pm Friday and heading down to the Coaltion to see The Chords - the first person we meet is Rob Bailey outside handing out flyers for the New Untouchables weekend - aparently there's a mod thing going on...
• South of London Mods
  on Feb 2, 2011 in Harvest Moon Club Brighton Wooden Bridge Club David B Innocenti Quadrophenia Scene Club Ricky Tick Club Guildford Mods 60's mods
  (by David B) I was born in Paddington but we moved south of London when I was still a small lad. I was involved in the Mod scene around Guildford starting in the summer of 1964. Since I lived alongside the A3 (the main road south out of London) t...

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