Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz

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Rawlings, Terry and R. Barnes, Mod: Clean Living Under Very Difficult Circumstances: a Very British Phenomenon (Omnibus Press, 2000), p. 89. a b Jobling, Paul and David Crowley, Graphic Design: Reproduction and Representation Since 1800 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) ISBN 0-7190-4467-7, ISBN 978-0-7190-4467-0, p. 213 Twersky, Carolyn (13 April 2023). "Mary Quant, Queen of British Mod Fashion, Dies at 93". wmagazine.com . Retrieved 13 April 2023.

REDSKINS— The Interview, 1986". Sozialismus-von-unten.de. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010 . Retrieved 31 August 2010. Well, thanks to some articles DJ Soft Touch posted recently, I think I've learned what real "clean living under difficult circumstances" is and it's been happening in the Congo for many years. I thought it was tough living as a poor kid in La Puente, CA knowing more about gangs than anyone should (and it wasn't much, really) but I wasn't living in a war-torn Congo. The original mods gathered at all-night clubs such as The Flamingo and The Marquee in London to hear the latest records and show off their dance moves. As the mod subculture spread across the United Kingdom, other clubs became popular, including Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester. [64] A charismatic storyteller, witty and unpretentious, he is at once an engaging protagonist and an indisputable authority, giving a live-wire, visceral perspective on mod life in that short flash of time. He manages to create a welcoming space in this rather exclusive world while never losing his formidable edge as a narrator' - The Big Issue Revolution in Men's Clothes: Mod Fashions from Britain are Making a Smash in the U.S., Life Magazine, 13 May 1966; pg. 82-86. Cover story.

What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about what decade you lived in, it's about your attitude, and this book has tons of it' Kenney Jones, The Small Faces Marshall, George, Spirit of '69 – A Skinhead Bible (Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing, 1991) ISBN 1-898927-10-3 He writes about music with what Lester Bangs once described as an ‘erection of the heart’ or a terminal sense of teenage. It’s when he gets on his bike ( no pun intended ) that the book really takes hold. You write about what was called the blogosphere and how you and many of your contemporaries started off there and recycled a lot of the blog material for your first books. Where did it lead to, the energy of the blogosphere, where do you locate that energy now?

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances' will fit nicely in my bookcase shelf with Hatherley's earlier works. There's still plenty of space, but the author has only just turned 40, so hopefully there are many more to come.

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Mods also treated scooters as a fashion accessory. Italian scooters were preferred due to their clean-lined, curving shapes and gleaming chrome, with sales driven by close associations between dealerships and clubs, such as the Ace of Herts. [ citation needed] It's the phrase coined by Pete Meaden that most Mods, I'm sure, say they live by. Some might say it's the simplest definition of 'Mod'. Yeah, I kinda like it myself. It's simple... yet open to interpretation. a b Artavia, Mario (2006). "SoCal Mods". South Bay Scooter Club. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008 . Retrieved 11 October 2008. There is an important intellectual tradition in English popular culture of outsider writers, steeped in philosophical and political tradition but operating outside the academy. These essayists, journalists and broadcasters refuse to be confined by the boundaries of occupation or form. Their breadth and depth of knowledge is impressive. Their point was always to challenge orthodoxy, to confront social injustice, and to argue for a better world. Their books, essays, plays and TV dramas have defied genre, reaching out to an ever wider audience. What a wonderful book. Mod isn’t about what decade you lived in, it’s about your attitude, and this book has tons of it’ Kenney Jones , The Small Faces

One thing that comes through clearly in most of Hatherley's books and essays is his seething, almost Orwellian, hatred of what I would call 'architectural brutality' (not to be confused with brutalism) – all those massive, ugly structures that distort the face of many a British and European town and city. He seems to be still cherishing the unshaken belief in Winston Churchill's famous pronouncement that we shape the buildings first and they then shape us. What a wonderful book. Mod isn’t about what decade you lived in, it’s about your attitude, and this book has tons of it’– Kenny Jones, The Small Faces Modernism’s most prolific and persuasive contemporary advocate … One of the joys of Hatherley’s writing is that he so often focuses on the unusual and eccentric.”

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Paul Jobling and David Crowley called the mod subculture a "fashion-obsessed and hedonistic cult of the hyper-cool" young adults who lived in metropolitan London or the new towns of the south. Due to the increasing affluence of post-war Britain, the youths of the early 1960s were one of the first generations that did not have to contribute their money from after-school jobs to the family finances. As mod teens and young adults began using their disposable income to buy stylish clothes, the first youth-targeted boutique clothing stores opened in London in the Carnaby Street and King's Road districts. [53] The streets' names became symbols of, one magazine later stated, "an endless frieze of mini-skirted, booted, fair-haired angular angels". [54] Newspaper accounts from the mid-1960s focused on the mod obsession with clothes, often detailing the prices of the expensive suits worn by young mods, and seeking out extreme cases such as a young mod who claimed that he would "go without food to buy clothes". [52] Debolt, Abbe A.; Baugess, James S., eds. (2011). Encyclopedia of the 1960s: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture [2 volumes]: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. ABC-CLIO. p.629. ISBN 9781440801020 . Retrieved 10 June 2014.

George Melly (5 April 2012). Revolt into Style: The Pop Arts. Faber & Faber. p.120. ISBN 9780571281114 . Retrieved 15 August 2013. A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies.”There’s something almost biblical about a man who takes his cultural obsession and makes a first-class career out of it. For Eddie Piller a musical compulsion coupled with a healthy Presbyterian work ethic has for over forty years propelled him forward as a devoted curator of his scene. First, as a young man growing up in Woodford, where a family association with the Small Faces ( his mother ran their fan club ) first ignited the universe in him. Those small steps however would eventually see him forge his own path in the music industry, starting as a DJ before taking the brave decision to form his own record label, all before he had even turned 18 years old. Anderson, Paul "Smiler" (2013). Mods: The New Religion. London: Omnibus Press. pp.91–98. ISBN 978-1-78038-549-5. a b Lobenthal, J. "Psychedelic Fashion." Love to Know. "Psychedelic Fashion". Archived from the original on 17 March 2015 . Retrieved 8 April 2015.