Over the past year, Acid Jazz label owner/DJ Ed Piller and designer Steve Rowland have been putting together a book of mod revival fanzines from 1978 to 1984, entitled Modzines. “They’re an important ...

The relationship between Mods and the Fred Perry polo shirt has been an enduring one, lasting over six decades and still ...

Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of Mods Mayday — a 1979 concert at The Bridge House in London documented on a live album, featuring five mod revival bands. Started in 1978, mod revival was a music ...

The fluid concept of the mod subculture – or modernism – has been with us for a very long time. First mentioned in a review in The Daily Sketch of a 1957 jazz concert, to delineate between fans of ...

While many Aussies were embracing beach culture and rocking to Barnsey and Farnsey, a sub-culture of youngsters was suiting up and buzzing around on souped-up scooters. These young hipsters were the ...

Ask five different people what a _mod _is and you’ll probably get five different answers, covering maybe five different decades. So here, basically, is what you need to know: "Modernists" started ...

MOD culture and Southend have always gone hand in hand. From the early days in the Fifties when the first mods began to emerge, through the Sixties heyday and a revival in the Seventies and Eighties, ...

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