Once a mod always a mod. I became a mod in 1979 aged 16.. I am now 60 and still a mod.. And proud

Alas, this England doesn't exist anymore.

Like many my life had been hugely influenced by MOD & in particular trying to remain a MODERNIST .... Incredible that a scene with its first echoes mid 50's jazz enthusiastics styled to the nines to its 60's Mods ..to the soul underground & late 60's suede head streets to the dancing on talc northern soulers and then with the anger from punk but with a need to look sharp to the mass 70's-80's Britain goes MOD bananas ...throw in the casuals, scooter boys, indie & Britpop .... The Modernist style, view and faith to all things being a step ahead never waivers .... Am proud to be part of this culture ....KTF

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

Weller is still grooving hope for mods everywhere.

This vid was one of many thing to inspire me to become a breed of the new modernist movement

The cinematography, editing, etc. Well executed. Hit this one out of the park. You captured the moment, the looks and lifestyle. The whole feeling. This video makes me want to get into the mod look. Well done.

I think weve lost something from working class street style which was all about improvising due to limited clothing budgets. Now it seems to be get the label and your good to go. Its so unimaginative.

I had to laugh when I heard Martin Freeman say you can’t wear a suit these days without someone saying “are you going to a funeral” ? It shows pure ignorance of people’s dress sense. No one would have batted an eyelid a few decades ago but now ...... a lot of the current generation dress like paupers with tracksuit bottoms around their backside and it’s nothing to do with money. Fair play to the current generation of mods having said the above!

just about to turn 16 got my provisional license and a 50 special vespa that i’m working on buzzing the get it on the road for next year and i’m off brighton

A superb piece of cinematography and poetry.

Just came across this. Nice, real nice. Second generation mod. It's amazing how much of it stays with you throughout your life.

Paul Weller 1980s period was very stylish.

Whoa! I love the Harrington jackets and Fred Perry polo shirts. Watching from London.

Always good to see the mods still about being one myself I'm happy people are still a part of the mod subculture.

Some of the older and or more hardcore mods may tear me a new one for this, but they can go ffffffffade away. As a Youth growing up in the middle of Oklahoma, Mod was always something that whether I was in my metalhead phase or my punk rock phase always had respect and admiration for, as I knew punk had so much to owe to the Mods. But as I’ve gotten older and gotten away from wearing denim and leather and studs in chains, Mod culture and the whole idea of modernism seemed to click with me more and more, as I noticed how awesomely alien the look the sound in the ideal for living was in the middle of flyover America where the country and cowboy culture rules all. Mod felt like something was following as a British descendent that was a British subculture that had no some context or overtones of colonization and imperialism and as a Native American of the Mvskoke tribe, those are themes prevalent in so much European art forms that is a turn off to our people. But Mod was different and is different. The other crucial thing about mod that I will give immense credit for in my personal growth was that all the R&B and soul in Motown/Tamla I had no interest in as a headbanging teenager I suddenly went back to and realized that One of the most amazing fundamentals of mod culture that sticks out above all other European and American subcultures is that even if you don’t adopt the clothes or the hairstyles or the complete package, mod establishes an appreciation for the music, art, and culture of Black people, and to go with the whole modernist thing and made me want to listen to current R&B and current music in the black community worth looking for as well as all the greats that the mods looked up to. So even if I’m the only one wearing a green parka over my suit for hundreds or thousands of miles, I will always try to carry on what date so I can of the Mod way. BUT… I cannot do the checkered short sleeve button ups, Sunday school teachers wear those kind of shirts over here😭🤣

I want nothing more in life than to look like the girls in this video

Stay Cool, Stay Rude.. Stay Mod !

love this

Great short film. Shame so many just understand mirrors, The Jam and flags xx

YES! Thanks for this. Brilliant to have Weller's voice on it as well :) I'm off to check out The Hawk now.

PERFECT !!!

Watching because my five year old asked me how to dress like a mod. Adorable.

More of this please,I was thinking that guy sounds like Weller and it was

A nice peep in to the "new" Mod scene..I was apprehensive about this. Welled is as Mod as Abbs nowadays. Some great Mods out there; some fashionistas; but true Mods always I.D the plastics. Thank god to see someone under 30 !

Loved doing this Emma.

This, is pure gold.

I hate how difficult it is to find high buttoned suits now, three to four buttons up - double or single breasted - is my favorite look ever, and it is nigh impossible to find for a good decent price. and this is why, like a true mod, I need to get a job and spend all my money on well tailored suits (and vinyl records).

I'm curious about the garments and outfits that 1960s Rockers wore, but there isn't really any information about it. Dies anyone know of any resources or videos about how British Rockers dressed during the 60s?

Excellent video.

What are the venues in this, other than Bar Itslia ?

44 yrs now. It’s the only way to be. Away from the numbers!

Cool

Where was this vid

Seems like its all nostalgia except to the first. If they never aged they would be wearing the newest fashions and sporting the best new bikes and sounds. I always loved the look but it now seems like a costume.

Very poetic and a rejoice for the the old to accept the young a move forwards to rejoice in our history and move forwards as Mods have to. Thank you for this video

tops !!

Modernists, stylists, forever discovering, borrowing, revolving & evolving...

Absolutely stunning job well done! This is easilly the very best video about the Lifestyle I have ever seen. KTF!

Love the mod girls ♥️

thank goodness he decided to wear socks again

Glad it's about 'now' and not about us , pure fantasy if anyone thinks jazz and Northern Soul 70's disco had anything whatsoever to do with people like me and my mates in the 60's. Weller ? just a bloke from a post mod Woking who cashed in from those who came before him and became something else when that had run out of steam , don't blame him either :-) it's all an illusion.

😍😍😍

Choon in nxt week tae see how jack gets oan but ay

Mods forever

Cool. Weller chatting modernism. Very fucking cool.

....and woe to them who dare transgress....

🎯♂️ straight blue shark skin suit from a Hong Kong tailor 1980

My way mod life

Mod for it 😉

Careful dancing- your shoe lace is untied…

Outside a Hollywood venue late 90’s in a long line to see Pulp, 2 long scraggly hair guys, started bitching at people in line in thick English accents “AINT no quadraphonia BUNCHA WANKAS!” So classic. Peoole in general have never looked worse. Been like that a long time. Mod is a nuanced whisper thing,, everyone shouting with their “looks” today. It’s obnoxious and juvenile and many look old enough to have adult kids themselves.

1:17 - how looks real modern day Mod. Not 'stuck-in-60s' retro hipsters in odd 'mod'-tagged outfits

Love Mod, but more of an Individualist.

Music very similar to micks company

"CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES." MOD is not about who has the most expensive clothes. Mod is about who insists on being sharp, short hair, DJ or musician of great music, and continuing to be MODERN. For too many geezers, it's a nostalgia cult. Weller said in the 90s that techno would be the "new Mod music" and his albums like "Fat Pop" continue to grow. The geezers who drink pint after pint and try to get away with a Fred Perry polo & 50" waist Levi's still want to hear nothing but The Jam. It's not just about what you're into, but what you're not.

The mods were of their time-mods and rockers then skinheads and greasers,punks,new romantics etc etc-didn't go with any of them but you can't go back only forwards.

I came to see PW but just got his voice instead!

Passing the Batton is the opposite of mod it's about being difrent not like your parents or the cool people but like the in crowd

Japanese Mods, solid gold, numbers one...heaven in UKposts but hell in scooter meeting...anti-monarch, 89% pure Mods punk, devil worshiper, pretty much like a Norway Blackmetal band.

Need a bigger wardrobe

Or, as a wiser man said, God is in the detail.

Most Mods these days dress like Suede heads from early 70ts

"Glad am I for the wound"

Anyone got opinions on which is the best jacket?? For mods always

It's a bit sad isn't it? The originals walked it and talked it. The subsequent generations followed like sheep. They refined the look to how they think it was or should have been. The past is great looking through Rose tinted glasses, the whole point of modernism (clue in the title ) is to keep up with current trends. Not to hark back to what yer granny/grandad were wearing 50+ yrs ago. Gotta admit though, they did look sharp...

That was the longest 3:36 of my life.

Lets all look like estate agents 😂

I’m a mod, an individual…just like all the mods 😂. Anyone dressing like this after 25 needs to grow up.

“God is in the detail” - Mies van der Rohe… get it right, saddo

I recognise a few faces here , new and old

Absolute BS, I was there and they didn't look like that

Cheesy as fuck.

Too late paul as u know skins were their before use..Long before u arrived m8..u lot are dead..us ska oi! Trojan Skins are till here..we never left...Take a walk round 2tone village etc...WE are still HERE!!!!!...From Scotland..N/Ireland..Kids dont even know who u are & TBH bands oi! to Ska to trojan sold mega more than u at the time.

Prepare for a life spent learning how to look down on people who have the sartorial details wrong. Prepare for elitism and snobbery. Get ready to pretend to understand French independent cinema and enjoy obscure jazz and garage music. Prepare to embrace narcissism as though it is a mark of pride. Mod is empty and the people who get pulled into it see that eventually. It's what people who don't believe in themselves subscribe to.

What a load of tools prancing around,make the old mods look bad

It's trite to take a boring saying and apply it to everything!

Sad people who don't have the courage to live in the present, and would prefer to hide in the past.

Although I do love this stuff, the clothes, hair, scooters and music: Doesn't being a Mod, a Modernist - mean being new, current and pushing boundaries? If these guys in this video are living this culture, surely that's not being "modern", a modernist? yes its re-living how they dressed but that was then? If you call yourself a mod today, its nothing but a once was, if you like a scooter or like to wear a suit, great - but its not mod really is it? Look, I have a parka, i love it, wear it everyday, i dont own a scooter, i want one but they are like 5k now these days. i wear a suit at a wedding, yes, a tailored , i guess you could call it quite a mod style suit but wtf is mod in 2021?? You cant because its done, its over. Someone once told me it was a way of life: tell me what way of life it is - to dress like you live in the 60s??

And then there was bowling shoes...