Thursday 2 April 2015

Remembering 2014 / The Modernists by Jeff Noon . Produced & directed by Rikki Tarascas / The Komedia, Brighton, from Wednesday 18th-Sunday 22nd June. 2014



THE MODERNISTS
Fuelled by amphetamines, fast music, style and the motor scooter, The Modernists is a non-stop ride with the Mods.
In the 1950s the Mods were the pure distillation of Cool.
They adopted blues R&B and Bluebeat, moved into basement clubs and developed their own dances,style and attitude.
Produced & directed by Rikki Tarascas
Tanglehead.co.uk



The mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early to mid-1960s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups became labelled as folk devils.


The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots (although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The common rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, while their music genre of choice was 1950s rock and roll, played by artists like Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Bo Diddley. The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska, beat music, and British blues-rooted bands like The Who, The Yardbirds, and The Small Faces


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