Celebrating Mod Subculture & Soul Music Across The Decades
Danny Coates – Promoter Of That Riviera Touch, South Shields – North East Mod Weekender & Get Smarter, Gosforth, Newcastle. Continuing my chat with Newcastle Mod & DJ Danny Coates regarding his recollections and his redolent memories of his participation in the UK Mod scene for over 40 years, here is part two of his transcript. Here in Danny’s own …
Paul Hallam – The Post Mod Years – The Mid 1980s To The Late 1990s It’s always a pleasure to chat with friends recounting their memories of participating in the Mod scene across the decades. However it’s also equally as pleasant to chat with those friends too of their recollections that were to follow beyond those years. For many of …
Mick Taylor Discusses Soul DJing & Some Of His Favourite Soul Tracks For anyone who loves Soul music, they will know it often begins with a brief introduction to a handful of tracks and what is to follow cascades into a lifelong love affair with this genre of music. I have yet to speak to anyone who is a vinyl …
Soul DJ Dave Rimmer Talks About DJing, The Rugby Allnighter, His Rare Soul Music Books & Some of His Top Favourite Soul Tracks For everyone who knows me, it’s a noted fact that I have an unshakeable love of Soul music, that spans over 35 years. We are very blessed to have a collection of Soul DJs who have an …
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The Rimini Mod Scene Part 5 – Italo Adriani …. 80s Mod Events Music Memories Continuing with the articles and series of chats with Andrea Mattioni and Italo Adriani regarding their recollections of the Rimini Mod Scene, here is part 5. This article covers Italo’s music memories. An exemplary music compilation of some of Italo’s selected tracks that remind him …
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The Rimini Mod Scene Part 4 – Andrea Mattioni …. Music Memories From 1980s Mod Events In his previous article Andrea Mattioni gave us a lovely insight into his memories of his participation in the 80s Rimini Mod Scene. Andrea’s second series of chats, recollects his music memories of back then. Andrea has chosen a selection of ten tracks that …
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Mods : Shaping A Generation Exhibition, Leicester Part 1 For many of the visitors to this site, I am sure you will have visited or be aware of the Mods : Shaping A Generation Exhibition festival in Leicester. This ran from the 13th April to 30th May 2019 at the New Walk Museum. This unique project encompassed the 1960s youth …
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Clelia Lucchitta – Italian Mod Girl Interview Part 2 – 1990s & Beyond Milan Mod Girl Clelia Lucchitta, back in the Spring of 2019, previously discussed her memories of being part of the Italian Mod scene. As part of several articles for the site Clelia, contributes to further interviews discussing her Mod memories. Here is her transcript from the 1990s …
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Danny Coates – Newcastle Mod & DJ – Get Smarter & The Riviera Touch As part of my memories and interview section for Soul & Mod, I always like to try to incorporate a variety of interviews from Mods spanning across the generations. Here is another of those interviews with my friend Danny Coates, Newcastle Mod and DJ and original …
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Following on from Mod Books, Mod Reading & Mod Subculture Literature Part 1, here I conclude with part 2. Contributions come from Mod authors Elizabeth Woodcraft, Shaun Knapp, Neil Sheasby and Don Hughes, Elizabeth Woodcraft’s first book about the early Sixties in Chelmsford. A Sense of Occasion, is a collection of interlinked short stories about four young women finding their …
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