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"We were walking around with hair brushed up in an exaggerated French Mod cut. We'd get "You ponses! You puffs!" We just had to soak it all up. I used to avoid trouble like the plague. I couldn't see the sense in it. I was into it for the music, the clothes and the scooters."
Alan Fletcher - Author and consultant on the film 'Quadrophenia'
"I used to go down The Flamingo on Friday and Saturday nights. I'd pick up my membership paper and there'd be 'Tonight - Larry Williams and Johnny Guitar Watson.' I'd say; “Should we pop down and see these two then?” (laughs). There'd be Solomon Burke one night, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Reed another, there'd be Nina Simone, you could go down there every night and see someone. You'd also get bands like The Stones in the audience and every night it would be packed. Lots of Jamaicans. It was an amazing place.
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Chris Farlowe - Singer
"In 1995 I lived in Stoke Newington, London for about a year and a half. I thought it was really cool since England is the birthplace of mod, and some mods were still about. The nineties mods looked exactly same as the people in the pictures I'd copied from sixties magazines or books."
Daisuke Usui - Japanese mod band The How
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The Influential Factor by Graham Lentz (Gel Publishing)
The Influential Factor by Graham Lentz traces the growth, development and diverse nature of the most durable sub culture of the late twentieth century. Mod.
From its roots in Modern Jazz to the mod influence on Brit Pop, The Influential Factor is a fascinating journey through fifty years of music, clubs, clothes and attitude.
It follows a path that begins in the West End of London, and moves on to Manchester, Nottingham, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, America, Japan, Australia, Italy, Sweden and Germany.
It is a story told by those who were there and those who are still there today. The Influential Factor includes first-hand interviews with: John Simon, The Flamingo Club owner Jeffrey Kruger, Chris Farlowe, Long John Baldry, Roger Eagle, Brian Betteridge of Back to Zero, Anthony Meynell of Squire, Ed Ball of The Times and Creation Records, Terry Tonic, Maximum Speed's Goffa Gladding, Detour Record's Dizzy and Tania Holmes, Nick Rossi (USA), Daisuke Usui (Japan), New Untouchable's Rob Bailey and The Hideaway Club's Paul Welsby and Neil Henderson.
From modernists to mods, skinheads to scooterists, revivalists to Brit Poppers, The Influential Factor is A4 sized, with 280 pages and more than 250 photos and graphics, some published for the very first time. After seven years of research, finally, The Influential Factor is here.
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"Of course I dressed in the styles of the day. I was smart, but I wasn't at the sharp end style-wise. My money went on vinyl and importing new records. I left the clothes obsession to the kids coming into the club."
Roger Eagle - DJ Twisted Wheel, Manchester
"Suddenly, I was getting mail from Germany, America, Spain, Italy, Australia and Ireland especially, and they were all coming at it from the same angle; ' we thought you'd gone, can you come over, your records are great'. "
Anthony Meynell - Squire and Hi-Lo Records
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"The first period of modernists was 1948 to '58 and this is important because it was an evolutionary period.
It evolved directly through from the thirties and forties cultures, but it didn't evolve by harking back to those days. It evolved in a natural way as the music evolved."
John Simons - Owner of Ivy Shop, Clothesville and J. Simons
"I started off back in the fifties, just me and an acoustic guitar. Mods used to come along when I sang in a band called The Ken Simms Vintage Jazz Band."
Long John Baldry - Singer
"The fact is two minutes forty-one seconds of my life is still appreciated, so I'm proud of 'Your Side Of Heaven' and I hope Sam Burnett, Andy Moore and Mal Maylon are as well."
Brian Betteridge - Lead vocalist with Back To Zero
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"When I first came across skinheads they were at Tottenham Hotspur when they played Leeds, and the clothes they were wearing were the same as we were wearing. But it was like an overlap because they were the younger brothers of the people that we were."
Keith Rylett - Author and 1960s mod
"When I first went to see The Chords play, I think the first time I saw them was one of their first nights at The Wellington at Waterloo on a Saturday night which was fantastic, it just seemed to bring back all that was good about punk music."
Goffa Gladding - Co-publisher of late seventies fanzine 'Maximum Speed'.
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"I guess the Nagoya mod scene was probably born in 1985. At that time, the main hangouts for the Nagoya mods were live gigs of The Collectors or The Strikes since there was no exclusive mod-type night clubs in Nagoya."
Nobuo Tanaka - Japanese mod
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"I have only performed in England and Spain. I really consider the mod scene to be a viable and vibrant thing in both England and on the Continent, at least much more so than over here. A lot of people are tremendously enthusiastic, have a great sense of style, and know quite a lot about music. Some of the hippest people I have met are from abroad. "
Nick Rossi -The Nick Rossi Set
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"The first run we did was Easter 1991 at Hastings in The Pier Ballroom which went very well. It was a period where, no one knew what was going to happen, but we were very pleased with the outcome. I think we had about 400 people at that one, which wasn't a bad start, especially as mod was going through a difficult period."
Rob Bailey - New Untouchables
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