Punks in Parkas

The great mod revival of 1979 was the start of my mod and scooter years so it should come as no surprise to find revival music is a real favourite of mine.

In the early eighties revival became a dirty word and a swing to "real" mod music i.e. soul and sixties beat saw attendances at gigs fall. As a result most of the mod revival bands folded/changed their image. Many stated publicly they wished to have nothing to do with mods. Quite ironic given many have now reformed and are playing to mod audiences again.

Mod revival music was unwanted for many years but now the price of vinyl is soaring for many of the obscure bands. Records which were criticised by the music press are now worth 400+ times their original price while the bands the press loved are forgotten and worth nothing.

Much of the material in this section comes from fanzines I wrote in 1982-85 called " Cranked up really high" (about revival bands) & "It's a legal matter " (press articles and reviews about mod that were so inaccurate as to be funny). Total sales about 50 copies