If the forum is back in full, then threads like this and cooking should broadly be in other parts than Talk Ivy.

Last edited by An Unseen Scene (2021-10-06 08:39:45)

I've seen a few articles reprinted online recently, ranging from 1976 to a few months before Quad came out, all UK publications and all dealing with youngsters who were mods. Wearing vintage clothing, riding scooters, listening to 60s music plus select bands of the time, etc. So the mod resurgence had already started and would have continued without that film, although probably not to quite such an extent. It also would have probably appealed to the same types it appealed to.

Last edited by Yuca (2021-10-06 09:50:46)

Yes the Glory Boys and others had been at it for a bit.

I got to know some older guys who had never stopped and were still around (I got to know them in early 80s).  They had subsumed themselves into the Soul scene and ordinary life but kept at it, then kind of resurfaced late 70s.  I went to the wedding of one of them in I think 85/86.

Yes there had been a parallel pre-scooter boy trend that had continued right through the 1970s. There are pictures of Smoothies on scooters. Crews still with strong regional identity and going to the coast.  It was still a vague thing in Northern Soul scene too.  I have older friends who stayed with scooter and rallies without much attention through 70s long after their scene associations had gone. If anything the scooter scene had become regional and linked to socialising.  There were former Mods on our street as a kid, who were now in their thirties who still had scooters and later became sort of mentors and protectors when Mod came back.

I went to Whitby in 1980 and there was a huge scooter rally, far beyond new-Mods - it was incredibly exciting and dangerous seeming.  Seemed to cut across almost every scene, just loads of young people out for fun, into scooters.

The rockabilly into psychobilly came first via the new-Teds morphing into Rockabilly, our very own Lloyd J selling leather and rockabilly jackets late 70s.  Then the Cramps/KingKurt thing came in from about 82/83 onwards and had a specifically non-Mod scooter boy thing.  We had very strange nights with loads of Mod, then Northern Soul (acceptable to scooter boys and Mods), then Psychobilly (just some of the the scooter boys and Psychobillies) then the white garage R&B (Psychobillies, scooter boys, some Mods, the ones from Northampton like the Psychodots used to love that).  Great mixed up times. People paint the UK as grim, but I had a blast despite the numerous things I wince at thinking back.

Last edited by An Unseen Scene (2021-10-06 10:42:34)

But that was in London. I believe further north scooter clubs were quite popular in the 1970s. Indeed I read that most of the extras in Quad were members of northern scooter clubs (who had to receive haircuts and more appropriate clothing).

Both the 1980s scooter boy/scooterist and pyschobilly scenes were full of fascists. Who of course tried to be as prominent as possible. Even in recent years I've read reports of far right organisations having stalls at scooter events.