Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

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

@happydaystoytown71

3 жыл бұрын

@@50milliondownthedraintonym16 ? If your referring to all those different cultures linked well elements of modernism runs through all of them ....as hippies & New Romantics I would not include them as I never mentioned them...if that’s what you are referring??

@happydaystoytown71

3 жыл бұрын

@@50milliondownthedraintonym16 yeh Mods ..some did dabble with mascara ..is it linked to New Romantics ..??? Can’t see it tbh Small Faces ..well for me the hippy/psychedelic thing that they implemented ..a lot of it was tongue in cheek ...think only Ronnie prob took abit of further .... Great question at the end tbh...for me Mod is all about how you try to keep moving forward and keep looking to embrace, learn, develop, it has so much to it ..music and clothes underpin it but ....for me there is so many layers ....musically I love so much mod influenced music ...SF are actually my fave band and Steve my number one hero ..followed by Otis, Weller, Marvin, The Who ....Soul Music is my biggest love but as I have got older my tastes have become so varied and love anything from Floyd to Zep, Tim Hardin to Neil Young ....I could go on ....music for me has so much to offer ....am I mod ...more of a modernist in regs to how think and seek ....do I own a parka ..yes several, do I dress in 60’s clothing no but I dress in clothing influenced that is smart ...do I ride a scooter no ....but does that make me less a Mod than someone who does ...definitely not .... Modernism it’s in the detail and I consider myself to have good taste and good detail KTF ✊

@happydaystoytown71

3 жыл бұрын

@@50milliondownthedraintonym16 funny thing tho is ..Mod as a concept ...actually conflicts hugely ...as the original idea was always about moving forward ..being one step ahead ...yet for most who are influenced by it ...me included look back ....

@stenchosmells

2 жыл бұрын

@@happydaystoytown71 Totally ! I’ve thought that myself and would include myself in that. I can’t say I’m a full on mod as I don’t live and feel it everyday. My parents were 60’s 20somethings so I grew up with a lot of that variable sound and had a great musical upbringing. I listen more to that era than I do of mine. But like you say the looking back of nostalgia and yesterday isnt looking forward but it’s with me everyday and shows in the way I dress.

@megadave1197

2 жыл бұрын

@@happydaystoytown71 lol you sound like an old fart or a young hipster

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.

@arricammarques1955

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, sharp cinematography & editing.

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

@glenmorgan4597

4 ай бұрын

Me too, 62 now, was bought up on 60's / Mod by my eldest brother & playing his records

@freddiemedley5580

4 ай бұрын

Me to, 18 now, got pissed off with my rocker older cousin and so became a mod when I was 16, to piss him off. Then I fell in love with the culture and I'm now a mod for life. Gonna ride my Vespa on the beach of New Brighton (Mars) in mermory of you mad lads!

@stephenackerman2236

Ай бұрын

Me too.Same age as you. In it for life!

@club_rock

15 күн бұрын

LISTEN TO THE JAM And Paul Weller THE VERVE And Richard Ashcroft 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 🇲🇫 🇨🇭 😎

@club_rock

15 күн бұрын

Best British bands : 1 THE JAM 2 ROLLING STONES 3 THE VERVE 4 OASIS 5 JESUS AND MARY CHAIN 6 JOY DIVISION 7 AC DC 8 THE CLASH 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 😎

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

@Skankhunt-mt5dy

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck and enjoy!

@CIMAmotor

Жыл бұрын

@kyfaydfsoab What is?

@TheShayster7

Жыл бұрын

How did you enjoy Brighton? What you riding now 👍🏻😎

@Scoot.2004

Жыл бұрын

@@TheShayster7 massive change over 2 years 😂riding a px and not even a mod no more didn’t go brighton

@trckenergyy7757

Жыл бұрын

@@Scoot.2004🤣🤣🤣🤣

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.

@strappaplank6017

Ай бұрын

very well put/said

Paul Weller 1980s period was very stylish.

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

@pedroconduce8454

3 жыл бұрын

yes, greetings from the levante

@glurbo4210

9 ай бұрын

@kyfaydfsoabyou seem quite bitter and honestly a bit odd

Alas, this England doesn't exist anymore.

@259Den3

3 ай бұрын

It appears they are LARPing while England is going through a demographic transformation.

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!

@yaelyahir3626

3 жыл бұрын

@Hugh Marc yup, been watching on Kaldrostream for months myself =)

@carmelomustafa4943

3 жыл бұрын

@Hugh Marc Definitely, have been watching on KaldroStream for months myself :D

@zaneroy1255

3 жыл бұрын

@Hugh Marc Definitely, I've been using kaldroStream for months myself :D

@StormDatIsApproaching

Жыл бұрын

​@@hughmarc9373 oh bugger off you bot bellends

Weller is still grooving hope for mods everywhere.

A superb piece of cinematography and poetry.

@arricammarques1955

11 ай бұрын

Brilliantly shot & edited. Very Mod.

Loved doing this Emma.

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😭🤣

@terrytaylor1394

Жыл бұрын

You make some interesting observations. Mod to me at its simplest level is just a personal aesthetic and you seem to understand that and benefit from it. Anyway it's about how you wear the short sleeve button down that makes it cool or not. All the best from the UK.

@glurbo4210

9 ай бұрын

@kyfaydfsoabwhat’s weird is you commenting all over this video like a deranged person Jesus Christ

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

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

@thanassisbabatsikos1303

18 күн бұрын

Baracuta

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

Love the mod girls ♥️

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

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

@startintedwater

3 жыл бұрын

Me too :(

@James_I_Archer

2 жыл бұрын

Calm down lads il get you some heels 👠

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 !

@seajays796

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. there is lot of us under 30..

@digiface

4 жыл бұрын

@MrChillin65 Funny first half but there's nothing modernist about being stuck in 1963

@digiface

4 жыл бұрын

@RedSoxMatt Well I've never had a parka or a scooter .. but if I did I'd have a white sx200 with no mirrors and sacrilegiously turn it electric after shedding a tear. Re mods .. I recently checked out the rhyme yankee doodle because of the line 'stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni'. It turns out this was the english soldiers in new york in 1700's taunting their american counterparts for thinking they've got suss just cause they stick a feather in their cap, and 'macaroni' was the term for an elitist men's fashion in europe .. the suss .. real macaroni took years to perfect .. it was a different thing but bears some familiar hallmarks. Perhaps the original 50's mods passion for music and joy of life expressed through good taste just ended up merging with the same old 'im better than you' and 'check out my plumage' mating stuff the more people tried to be a part of it and the passion and joy of life got forgotten

@MountSellout77

4 жыл бұрын

@MrChillin65 You mention how "real" mods are into authentic bands, yet the mods of the 60s loved The Who and, while they dressed like mods, were not totally with the mod subculture. The way of the mod life is to enjoy yourself and not adhere to what your older peers say and do what you want. And @digiface above me says, being modernistic does not mean being stuck in 1963, even though that seems pretty obvious. But hey, what do I know, I guess because I enjoy bands like The Who and don't buy my clothes from ridiculously expensive clothing brands, I'm not a true mod.

@EH-bg1yo

4 жыл бұрын

@MrChillin65 but wellars a gateway into a whole new scene so don't slag him off

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

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?

@dang2443

Жыл бұрын

leather. You're welcome.

@KazeHorse

Жыл бұрын

Leather jackets. Jeans. Engineer boots. That sort of vibe.

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

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

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

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

love this

PERFECT !!!

Yeah 🧿

Vespa scooter, stylish italian clothes & parka, modsound - clean life in mod

This, is pure gold.

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

Excellent video.

Stay Cool, Stay Rude.. Stay Mod !

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).

@andyanderson3567

2 жыл бұрын

A decent tailor who knows his craft should be able to sort you out. Check out Mark Powell.

@thebellbrothers3279

Жыл бұрын

So did you find any affordable 4 button suits?

@ibnufasya6408

7 ай бұрын

i'm lucky to have a hand-me-down 3 button jacket, fits like a glove and looked proper, best of all i got it for free

I recognise a few faces here , new and old

Cool

Where was this vid

😍😍😍

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

@11BlackLamb

Жыл бұрын

Straight blue shark skin suit from a Hong Kong tailor 1980

Careful dancing- your shoe lace is untied…

tops !!

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

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.

Love Mod, but more of an Individualist.

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.

Lets all look like estate agents 😂

"Glad am I for the wound"

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

Mods forever

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

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

@EH-bg1yo

4 жыл бұрын

@modern studies but it was created by rebals from their parents and from the mainstream and by makingnit about tradition you ruin the purpos of the mods

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

@digiface

4 жыл бұрын

.. adapting, searching, finding & refining ..

@jonathanhadley2555

2 жыл бұрын

@@digiface Adopt Adapt & Evolve;-)

@digiface

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanhadley2555 the new book on tesla AI robot children :P

My way mod life

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...

@thedoftranquillity

8 ай бұрын

?

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

Mod for it 😉

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.

@EH-bg1yo

4 жыл бұрын

Well thats bollocks jazz has a lot to do with mod it started out as a modern jass subcture

@jonathanhadley2555

2 жыл бұрын

@@EH-bg1yo Modern Jazz & not Trad Jazz

"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.

@nasdkhan254

Жыл бұрын

Yr right. So why is Weller trying to look like Jimmy Saville???

thank goodness he decided to wear socks again

Need a bigger wardrobe

Cool. Weller chatting modernism. Very fucking cool.

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

Music very similar to micks company

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

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

That was the longest 3:36 of my life.

@estebansteverincon7117

4 жыл бұрын

???

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

Cheesy as fuck.

@dang2443

Жыл бұрын

You're not wrong. That's always been the problem with Mods. they take themselves way too seriously.

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.

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

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

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

@dang2443

Жыл бұрын

you forget that cameras existed in the 60s. You weren't there.

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.

@WinstonSmith22

Жыл бұрын

@kyfaydfsoab Strange Chis Lambert "the ace face" describes his inculcation into becoming a Mod in exactly this way? He describes the process of honing an "assumed identity" and the belief that in calling himself a Mod, or a "Face" that he acquired the characteristics. That much of his front was pure affect, and relied more upon pretence and emulation than it did being anything like the original. Which "Ace face" did you hang around with?

@terrytaylor1394

Жыл бұрын

You could level that accusation at any identifiable group that has a "look. Aren't kids today still one-upping each other over their brand of trainers or track suit? Mod can be as much or as little as you want it to be. I do like obscure soul and garage amongst many other things. For me it's a personal aesthetic, a taste in clothes, music, art, design etc rooted in the 60s. It's nothing to get angry about and over analyse..

@WinstonSmith22

Жыл бұрын

@@terrytaylor1394 It's a pose and a snotty elitist escapism. If you enjoy that kind of narcissism then have at it. Just don't expect other people not to point out the shallow and parodied irony of people protesting how "individual" they are whilst buying books that tell them how to dress, talk, stand, and be. Other (Youth Cultures) do preen and practice one-upmanship. But Goths, Punks, Rockers and the rest grow out of their affected phase. What is it about Mods that sees them behaving in the same way that they did at eighteen?

@terrytaylor1394

Жыл бұрын

@@WinstonSmith22 You choose to take a very rigid and critical view of something that you are not part of. That's simply not how I see it. I suppose goths and Punks grow out of it because they'd look pretty stoopid at 40 wearing that look. Or maybe Mod runs deeper. As I say it's nothing to get upset about. They're not hurting anyone.

@WinstonSmith22

Жыл бұрын

@@terrytaylor1394 You don't think some fat sixty-year-old in a Parka or a boating blazer that is so tight that it is about to explode looks ridiculous? I have news for you pal. By the way, don't come the "you don't know" bollocks, I was a Mod forty years ago. I know what pissy little elitist mummies boys they are. If you ride around telling everybody how they wouldn't understand because it's a "Mod thing" you draw mockery pal. At eighteen it was a great culture. But "I hope I die before I get old" was the anthem for a very good reason. The Mods of the late seventies and mid-eighties were young kids. Not old men playing at being kids.

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.

@CIMAmotor

Жыл бұрын

Oi certianly doesn't predate Mods.

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??

@georgepetrillo7316

2 жыл бұрын

I get what your saying. The whole video is about the re surgence of the mod look. That's the idea the producer is getting across. Bringing back the looks and the lifestyles from back in the day to current times. Nostalgia is very big these days.

@dang2443

Жыл бұрын

oldest, most tired point.....ever.... Go be a Goth.

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

@georgepetrillo7316

2 жыл бұрын

So, what's wrong with carrying on the tradition???

@georgepetrillo7316

Жыл бұрын

@kyfaydfsoab Everything exists in one fashion or another. And don't include me in a generalization that you just made. I think that culture is very interesting and has a unique heritage. I never said it went away. You're statement has really no valididty. Before you call someone out I suggest you do your research first.

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

And then there was bowling shoes...

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

Che schifo di moda esiste oggi importata dalla musica rap Qi mods 🇮🇹🛵🇬🇧