This “Super bowl of Rodeo” was first held in Las Vegas in 1985, and has now become an annual tradition. For ten days Las Vegas becomes the Rodeo capital of the world with the top 15 qualifiers in different categories competing for a trophy and money. This is the ultimate vacation for the rodeo fan, [...]
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Vespa S
Posted by Delrond in October 25th 2007
The Vespa S is the brand new Piaggio Vespa to hit the market. My first emotion is Wow - and the next feelings I feel border on the erotic. The one thing that is noticeable to even the lay man is how small this scooter is. Compared to previous Scooters - the Vespa S [...]
The Sex Pistols Reunite
Posted by Delrond in September 19th 2007
This may not be strictly MOD music but The Sex Pistols have been a favourite band of mine throughout my early teens.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the famous “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols” album, they are doing one exlusive gig at the Brixton Academy in London, UK. If you want tickets [...]
Mods! Book Review
Posted by Delrond in August 21st 2007
After digging through my attic I found Mods! It’s an old book that I loved in the late 1980’s. I have also found a great little review that adequately describes how influential I found this book.
Mods! by Richard Barnes (1979) was another Townshend-sponsored project. It remains a great first-hand observer’s account [...]
Do you want Lambretta clothing designed by The Who?
Posted by Delrond in August 13th 2007
After visiting the Lambretta clothing website I noticed that the company is planning to release a clothing range with help from the band The Who. This could be very interesting and maybe this could be a trigger for another mod clothing revival?
Here is an excerpt from the Lambretta site: “Lambretta has partnered with [...]
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Get all your information about MOD art and The Who
Posted by Delrond in August 2nd 2007
At the very least, subsequent use of the Union Jack in the Gear boutique sunglasses of 1965 and John Entwistle’s jacket on the cover of The Who’s My Generation in 1966 can be directly traced to Geoff Reeve’s similar experiments with sunglasses and silk screened fabrics in the early 60s. The art-clothing connection of [...]
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Mod art - The Who and Jasper Johns’ target
Posted by Delrond in July 26th 2007
Indeed the concepts of motion, action, and speed that were inherent in the paintings and designs of the early decade were quite closely mirrored by the modernist culture. London’s Situationists particularly attempted to redefine the contents of the canvas not as pictures but as events and the recording of a [...]
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Mod art - Mile A Minute Typography and Ready Steady Go!
Posted by Delrond in July 24th 2007
Does it make any sense to associate mod culture–ostensibly known as a working-class ethic with strong emphasis on the materialistic- with the elitist and cultured atmosphere that the word “art” usually brings to mind? Direct connections might exist or have existed: ex-art school types who are/were [...]
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You want to hang out with Paul Weller?
Posted by Delrond in July 19th 2007
Although the history of musical trends in mod culture is easily chronicled, any attempt to strongly classify bands or music as mod is flawed in its premise; there is no mod [...]
Mod music | Obsessive about collecting records, music and obscure information
Posted by Delrond in July 18th 2007
Somewhere on the way home from school or work, the mods went “missing”-they were absorbed into a noonday underground of cellar clubs, discotheques, boutiques and record shops which [...]
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