PARKA AVENUE: Building a Mod retreat

Building a Mod retreat

  What do you do when you love to collect mid-century modern furniture but you don’t have spare space to put it? It’s simple. You build a mezzanine!Since the first time I laid eyes on the building plans when I bought my loft on paper five years ago, I knew that one day I was going to add a mezzanine....

PARKA AVENUE

2012-01-28 14:09:00 GMT

Latest Video:

Brian Auger & The Trinity - Black Cat

more quality 60s/70s archive footage from BBC4music, with cool Go Go Dancers.

Latest Videos - The Mod Generation

2012-01-28 13:23:43 GMT

Latest Discussion:

The scandals (mod/indie cover band)

If anyone's in the newcastle/Gateshead area tonight, get yourself along to the Blackbull in Wardley, to see THE BEST mod cover band in the north east, we've been on fire for the last few weeks and tonight will be no different, always a good atmosphere and crowd In this venue, we were labelled the best band to have ever played the bebside inn near Blyth, and that's a biker bar!!!!!hope to...

Forum Discussions - The Mod Generation

2012-01-28 12:05:27 GMT

The Forgotten Music Of Ronnie Lane

www.theawl.com

Even among music fans the name Ronnie Lane doesn't come up much. I'm not sure why. He was an original—"the East End urchin with the pastoral vision," as Mojo put it —and about as unlikely a rock figure as you're likely to find. The bassist and songwriter for British bands the Small Faces...

THE IVY LEAGUE LOOK: If the shoe fits, 1962

If the shoe fits, 1962

(click to enlarge)Source:Playboy - September 1962

THE IVY LEAGUE LOOK

2012-01-28 07:54:00 GMT

SOHOSTRUT: Likely Lads - Home Wrecker

Likely Lads - Home Wrecker

We've no sooner done a piece on them than they come out with a new tune. What can I say, this is rather special, in my view. This is a band with potential to take it all the way. They'll be signed soon. With a song like this they have to be - don't they?...

Sohostrut

2012-01-28 02:28:00 GMT

Latest Photo:

P1050185

by Alvise Giacobbi

Latest Photos - The Mod Generation

2012-01-27 20:29:30 GMT

ANORAK THING: The Hipster Image

The Hipster Image

THE HIPSTER IMAGE-Can't Let Her Go/Make Her Mine U.K. Decca F12137 1965Alongside names like The Gass, The Quik, The Loose Ends, The Meddy Evils, The Richard Kent Style et al, The Hipster Image are legendary among mod/U.K. 60's record collectors for not only the extreme financial value of their discs, but the great music contained within.The Hipster Image was a moddy looking 5 piece who had previously made an appearance on...

ANORAK THING

2012-01-27 16:00:00 GMT

MOD MALE: Sharp Stylings #24: Double-Breasted Quinn

Sharp Stylings #24: Double-Breasted Quinn

We can learn so much from yesterday’s fashion icons.  And living in a post-Mad Men world means we can even enjoy aspects of current male fashions! Every Friday, I’d like to start your weekend off right with a little style inspiration from either then or now. Hopefully, my fellow Mod enthusiasts will find the whole or some detail of the whole to appreciate and maybe even adopt. Duncan Quinn, London designer working out of...

MOD MALE

2012-01-27 15:24:00 GMT

Latest Article:

British Pathe archive.

I have just come across this great British Pathe site. There are loads of period clips including the audience at Ready Steady Go, scooter rallies and fashion. Here are some I like. This is a very weird silent clip of Mayfair in 1957 but it does show some early modernists on scooters....

Member's Articles - The Mod Generation

2012-01-21 10:00:00 GMT

Ska Madness 2

Review: Various Artists - Ska Madness 2

soundblab.com

Various Artists - Ska Madness 2 - There seems to be millions of ska compilations, but a lot of them contain filler tracks that should never have been included. Fortunately, there's no excess baggage on Ska Madness 2, a 22-track (including bonus tracks) collection compiled by form

VOICES OF EAST ANGLIA: Soul For Sale - Sixties Record Adverts

Soul For Sale - Sixties Record Adverts

As fans of soulful sounds, we got quite excited when we came across this brilliant selection of record adverts on photo sharing site Flickr. Member Tim the Mod has painstakingly scanned and uploaded over 350 various Soul, Jazz, R&B and Rock record adverts from the Sixties. We've picked out 20 of our favourites, which took a bit of time and effort as there were so many good ones to choose from....

VOICES OF EAST ANGLIA

2012-01-26 19:11:00 GMT

JACK THAT CAT WAS CLEAN: The Face Twist (thanx to Robert Nicholls)

The Face Twist (thanx to Robert Nicholls)

‎"Top Faces. London's top Mod hangout is an ill-lit, black-walled club called The Scene …. Mods change dances even faster than they change trouser-widths. The "Shake" and the "Bird" are both passe, and only the Rockers would be caught doing the Twist. The current dance craze is some thing called the "Face Twist," which has a tricky hand and heel movement that resembles a cross between a hula dance and a...

JACK THAT CAT WAS CLEAN

2012-01-26 13:51:00 GMT

Southend Mods

Mick Bray

breakingtherulessouthend.wordpress.com

Mick a Mod in the early 1960s. “I’m going to take you back to 1962, 63, 64 when the mods were just beginning to emerge in Southend… we were the early mods” Mick is centre, ...

MR. SUAVE'S MOD MOD WORLD: Modcast #221: Baby It's Cold Outside

Modcast #221: Baby It's Cold Outside

What a week. Icy cold storm kept me holed up in suave headquarters most of the week, only to emergy to the news that Etta James had died. Jamesetta, that was her real first name which she later reversed for her stage name, grew up hard, lived hard, worked hard, and sang hard....

MISTER SAUVE

2012-01-25 20:55:00 GMT

"I am very excited about my new relationship with Mark Fried and his team at Spirit. I feel that my song catalog is at last consolidated with one guiding company, and I'm optimistic that Spirit will keep my music in the public mind,"

Spirit Music Signs Deal With Pete Townshend, The Who to Acquire Catalog | Billboard.biz

www.billboard.biz

Pete Townshend and Spirit Music CEO Mark Fried have cut a deal that gives Spirit the rights to Townshend's entire catalog, including tracks like Won't Get Fooled Again,...

MOD MALE: Mod Gone Wrong: Royal Guards Desert Boots

Mod Gone Wrong: Royal Guards Desert Boots

I'm actually starting to like Clarks desert boots now, believe it or not.See, every time I find myself facing writer's block, Clarks comes through with shoes like these (as seen on His Knibs): For when traditional brown is just not enough.Now please don't get me wrong... I've got nothing against brightly-colored dress shoes, obviously....

MOD MALE

2012-01-25 17:25:00 GMT

MODCULTURE NEWS: A to Z of Mod book

A to Z of Mod book

I don't know much about this (although I believe this particular site gets a mention in it). So for now, we'll just have to go with the details on the sales page for the A to Z of Mod book. Published by Prestel and credited to Paolo Hewitt, Mark Baxter and Martin Freeman (introduction), it's due for publication on 30th April 2012....

MODCULTURE NEWS

2012-01-25 12:02:18 GMT

HAPPENING MAGAZINE: Win – The Tyrant King DVD

Win – The Tyrant King DVD

A Swinging London spectacular with theatre school kids in cool clobber and psychedelic music galore. A real forgotten period piece tailor made for the weird, wired and wonderful readers of Shindig! and Happening.To win the entire series on DVD courtesy of Network answer the below question:"Which British psychedelic/progressive group provide the theme tune for The Tyrant King?"Please email answer to win@shindig-magazine.com with the title WIN – THE TYRANT KING in the subject...

Happening-Magazine

2012-01-25 09:30:00 GMT

The club runs from 11pm till 3am on the first Saturday of every month in the O2 ABC2 Glasgow in Sauchiehall Street.

NOWT BUT NORTHERN - HOME

www.nowtbutnorthern.co.uk

Nowt But Northern began in July 2011 with the aim of establishing a regular Northern Soul night in Glasgow, Scotland.