WE ARE THE MODS - BRIGHTON BANK HOLIDAY MOD WEEKEND 2023
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- This year's collection of shots from Brighton's Mod Bank Holiday Weekender. (this year's is here: • 2024 We Are the Mods ... )
2023 and some new faces and interviews, plus, some familiar faces return to Brighton, and even Phil Daniels sends you all a message!
This time we've gone for a classic Academy ratio/Kodak Vision 250D colour filmic look in this mini doc. Graded in Davinci Resolve with Dehancer Pro 7 - superb plugin.
NB There are a few sound problems in some interviews due to faulty microphone and I apologise for having to use camera's built-in mic (always make me sound louder than interviewee) which isn't great when there's all that noise from the scooters. But its ok, and shouldn't spoil things.
Images shot on Lumix S5IIX and the 20-60 kit lens.
Graded with Davinci Resolve and Dehancer Pro v7.
Copyright Nick Driftwood 2023
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I was an original London mod back in '64-'66 (now 75) and fortunate at the time to live in the West End. A regular at the Scene, Last Chance and Flamingo doing the all-nighters.... Hung up my full length leather and mohair suit long time ago. We Soho mods didn't have scooters main mode of transit was the tube. I am now retired living in the south of France. Great memories.
Maybe you can answer this question ...was there, is there any MOD culture in France ...were the WHO , JAM others big there or not at all ? Have you ever come across Vespas, Lambrettas with all the MOD gear in your travels? Thx
@@paulmaguire2737 Hi, there was a small Mod culture in Paris during the mid-sixties. The Who, The Animals were really popular followed in the later seventies by the Jam etc. Yes Vespas were popular and still are (not so much Lambrettas).
Phil Daniels total legend,brilliant stuff many many thanks for this.
Great video Nick. Best one I've seen of Brighton 23. Actually talking to people and getting some background on them,their scooters, their home towns, their music interests. Too many silent videos with scooters just following scooters down the road going too fast to see what the scooters look like. Brilliant, keep the content coming.
Thanks David
Alf Garnett wasn’t happy when you said it was a bit warm for parkas! 😂🤣💀
And we are the rockers lol. 🤘👊
Great scoots great scene great music great fashion keep the faith ✊
Love this film , especially the interviews with normal none celebrities. It's great to hear what people from all over the country and world think. Cheers from a Trojan Skin in Northern England.
0:44 Phil, Phil - brush your hair. It will give you an enormous sense of well-being
Rudely awoken hair day
It's great seeing those lovely old scooters and mod fashion. I'm a biker myself and love the old BSA twins.
Have you seen the guy with the lambretta with a Yamaha RD350lc motor in it? It's crazy fast.
That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown
Great video Nick, I was originally into the Two Tone scene, this was my first time at the Mod Weekender, loved it and thank you to all the Mods who brought their amazing scooters and to the Mods that blew me kisses at the traffic lights, made my day 😂😂 … can’t wait for next year !!
Brilliant I was a smart mod 62 65 danced Ready Steady Go Vespa GS ,Ilford Palladi was my local, I left UK came to NZ with parents left a lovely girl behind 🎉.
My dad used to go to the Palais in the 60s. I inherited a lot of his clobber in the early 80s. 👍🏻
Love the scooters and the clothes long live mods from an old mod ❤❤❤🎉🤩😊😎🤗
Great vid.. fantastic to see nostalgia bursting in Brighton. well done all who took part. great to see it continues today..🇬🇧👍
Of course the times have changed over the years But the music is still amazing loved the Dorset music djs were awesome the music was to die for . The mods from all years looke well smart . The atmosphere was brilliant . We watched the fossil fuels band great cover band danced me socks off . Defiantly be back next year. Great vid thanks .KTF .
Brilliant video keep the faith late 70s Northern scooterist, Pontefract Mods.
Thanks mate
I was a Coventry mod and had a brand new Lambretta SX150 in 1967, red and white. I took it to Brighton once. I'm amazed there are so many Lambrettas and Vespas still existing in running condition. I now live in the USA. I never see Italian scooters here, all I see are the Chinese knock-offs and even they are uncommon.
Love it thanks so much ❤🎉
Brilliant work Nick, so insightful of the scene and why people got into it, thanks, see you in August 👍🏼
Great video Nick. And that's from a motorbike rider. Even aged 73 I am still too young to have been either a Mod or Rocker but now in my dotage having watched so many video's like yours I think it might be time to sell the bike and get a Scooter. That GP3OO sounds very tempting.
Scooters have small wheels and are very unstable compared to larger-wheeled bikes. The exception is the Aprilia but they are a kind of scooter/bike hybrid.
Would be good to get some drone footage of the rideout just to see the sheer scale of it on that coastline. Awesome video, loads of interesting characters.
Just came across your channel love the video. I was so into the mod scene the fashion the music everything. Scooters are the best bikes ever. Thankyou great vid.
Very interesting and well presented video Nick. It brought back many happy memories of the old days of the Mods of my era in the '60s'. Thank you for your time in producing and sharing this video. Best wishes Vic
Thanks Vic
20 in the 70s,70 in the 20s,,the style I coming back around, I was a mod and didn't even know it. Michael.
Nice video hope all enjoyed and had a great time
Mate absolutely brilliant thank you 👍👍
Classic banter mate!
Just amazing. And I see brother Roy is there with his beauty Union Jack Scoot! We Are The Mods! I rode my 64 GT200 from Toronto Canada to Vancouver Canada then down the PCH from the US border with Canada to San Fransisco. well over 8000 Miles in a single trip over 4.5 weeks
Good to see some humor back in the scene!
Grüsse aus dem Remstal (Germany south) nach BRIGTHON ,an meine MOD Freunde.MODS for ever. SPEEDY VESPA PX 200,VESPA Gts 300 ❤❤❤
I’m getting my tv175 replica next month can’t wait.remember my Vespa px 125 cost 600 quid new in 1982 and the 1965 lambo is 7k but worth every penny!
Real mods would laugh at these clowns........
1964 : 16 year olds, classic scooters and clothing
1979 : 16 year olds, classic scooters, some classic clothing, some Carnaby Street stores
2023 : 60 year olds, twist and gos, Ebay mass-produced clothing
Try Jump the Gun Brighton 2023 and theres plenty of youths getting involved. Watch properly.
Roger a bit snotty there
Oh the Jurassic Mod ,Fred Perry Ben sherman suits
getting a classic scooter in 1964 was obviously easier than in 2023 though. tailoring prices went over the roof and I'd argue that mass produced clothing nowadays is better quality than what you could find in the 80s
@@Soulkid65 Brighton rally use to be that way now looking more like the old CCI rallies back in the day before the split and the pirate rallies.
I wanna tamla motown themed vespa sporting the orignal black & white boxed logo's with a bit of chrome.
Brum mods, haha.... what a 2 stroke bostin energized acsent.... lol.
Great video, you caught the vibe well 👌🏻
"Look Dad! It's the comedy Grandads".
This is a modern world. ❤❤❤❤
Top class lads from walsall lm from bloxwich great scoots great sounds keep the faith 😂
‘I ride a gs scooter with my hair cut neat
I wear my war time coat in the wind & sleet’
I've heard them words before somewhere
Had to be the best dressed music trend ever ..
Dapper ❤❤
wish we had something like this in the US
Great video, next year look out for the collibosher birmingham scooter club. Usually a good bunch of lads and lasses. Moondog and Ernie would give you a few stories for the camera
Awesome
Adrian from 109.30 thank you!
SO frustrating to have cars in the Rideout! Otherwise..a GREAT video!❤
amelia from darby what a lovely looking modette
09:42 gotta be Guy Ritchie
Yeah - t'would be ungentlemanly conduct not too!
Nice Video Nick...hope your well🙏
@27.10 the guy talking about Long John Baldry. I worked with his nephew years ago and I was on the phone to a buyer arranging a meeting with our managers. When I said the name of our manager the guy on the phone said ha ha Long John Baldry. I'd never heard of Long John Baldry so the joke was lost on me. His nephew overheard my call and asked " were they talking about my uncle?" That's how I found out who Long John Baldry was!
Hairdryers reunited!😂
I DlG all this Mod talk!❤🤝
great video
The Rockers are Missing ;-)
They're waiting around the corner....
With their walking sticks and three-wheeled mopeds lol
They go along the seafront with customised bikes. What great mods, true British workin class culture at its best. So good to see some of you coming so far on scooters. Great to see the older generation. I love the small faces, mine below zero .
A good video presentation overall but missing one important factor.....The Music. some scenes inside the clubs would only add to the Mod scene at Brighton.
Definitely. Next year we cover the clubs too!
Brill vid m8 ❤
"BELL BOY!!!!!!"
Didnt know The Specials were a mod band.
they were not all pofs but because they loked it people just assumed i knew several who were not
OUR CULTURE
HELP!!!
Do any of you know a scooterist Stephen 'Spider' Webb originally from SE London?
He had an accident years back and lost the use of his right arm due to a spinal injury (Brachial Plexus Avulsion)
I was a friend of his 45+ years ago, a motorcyclist who lost the use of his right arm due to a BPA!
I I eventually put a trike back on the road but he stuck with scooters and apparently was quite a face on the scene!
Any help in putting us back in touch would be much appreciated...
Proper dress up
Great Vid,I'm the guy from Macclesfield.
at 59:19. Yeah nice one Neil. Next time let's get an interview?
@@driftwoodtv ,sure.
Mod or greaser. I was a mod. Better birds
Middle class mods the 'authentic' side of working class culture
1:07:51, that's me 🏁
GUY RICHIE probably
Anyone watching this go to Whitby for the Battle of Whitby Abbey 1980? I was a biker camping up there. We gave you some stick 😆
I wonder how many of these old mods still take speed??? One or two I reckon.
Probably mostly on blood pressure and cholesterol pills.
Old men look daft on scooters
They look daft anywhere so they may as well look daft on a scooter.
Wish I could have my 61tv s2 back, will Mansfield monsters sc!!!
There is only 2 real Lambrettas 1964 B reg TV/GT 200s and 1967 E reg SX 200... Brighton to be seen, and who remembers The Florida Ballrooms at The Aquarium... I lost my 2 front teeth on those steps tripped on 2 pints of Red Barrol and a Rum and black 😢😂
I remember the TV175 being very sought after. My 1967 SX150 was plenty fast enough for me.
How long before Brighton council ban these scooter rallies on environmental grounds - especially the two-strokers...?
I doubt it. If they did an economic impact assessment as to how much visitors spent on Mod Weekend ! Must be a £10million impact at least...
@@driftwoodtv I'm told that the annual London/Brighton Mini-car rally and the annual London/Brighton commercial vehicle rally have both been cancelled...
Ha Ha ,my starter motor's bigger than these bumble bee's.Are they even powerfull enough to carry all the extra mirror's and light's.Perhap's it's to see all the traffic there holding up!
A 150cc Lambretta will do 65 mph with 2 people on it.
wheres the Ace face? He must be at the Grand bell boying!
What is this ? the bikes are cool with the chrome, i especially like the thin one. It seems like a mindset to be a mod ? this kind of strange skinny clothes. Was this what they did in britain in the 80's ?
people used to laugh at the mods, the nancy boys with andogynous looks and feminine clothes
not all were homosexual but a lot sure were lol
It takes one to know one.
I ride a gpz 750 air cooled 4 ......oops ! sorry ,wrong video !
Brighton has gone way to commercial now went a few years ago never again sadly massively diluted cash in scene but there are still some decent events around if you know where to luck 😉
Who is this @ 6:47 , i cant think of his name
👍🛵
Sorry...but these people are not mods. The mods I knew from the late 80s to early 90s wore sharp clothes that weren't so loud and stripey. Not a badge or patch in sight...and didn't take scooters that seriously. The few scooters around were plain with no mirrors or lights.Our main mode of transport were classic sports cars.
These folks are strange. More a parody of mod than the real deal.
That said...if it makes them happy...
The real mods were in the 1960s. The 80s was a revival but not the same.
Real mods died young.
Brighton is dog rough nowadays.
Nah. Its still good. Just visit the right places.
His hair is way too long and he's got a tash 😮
What is the culture in Brighton these days?
Multi
Wears rokers for ding-dong 😂
I've always liked the mod fashion but their bikes not so much..
What group do you like , what a stupid question!
Jam or the Who FFS. I love both bands but hardly Mod music is it.
Drinking and riding not cool...................
Never liked mods …
Always liked motorcycles….
Thanks for sharing that.
There's a Ghost in his House
Where's the real bikes?
Only old People
The mods were à youth mouvement
That makes no sense
Being a mod was about the music and fashion. Never a youth movement.
A man who thinks the same at fifty, as he did at twenty, has wasted thirty years of his life.
My mother was a mod in the late '60s. I got into it in the '80s ..drifted away from it ..and came back to it in my 30s.. ditched it again. I remember my mother criticising the aul dolls and aul lads running about doing the mod thing in their 40s and 50s.. she said they needed to wise up and grow up 😊
@@donnasmyth45 Same Donna. I was Mod in the eighties too. Your mum sounds like a wise lady. Too much narcissism and snobby elitism for my tastes now. I love the music, clothes, scooters and such. But too many of the Mods were insecure and stuck up their own exhaust. 👍
@@WinstonSmith22 you are spot on Winston! I found it the nastiness, backstabbing clique ever. Take care.
@@donnasmyth45 Same Donna. All the while protesting how "right on" they are! We are better out of it. The same snootiness drove me out of the culture too many years ago lol! Nice to meet you. 👍
@@WinstonSmith22 And you, Winston. 😊
Jesus what a bunch of fashion victims
It's a mod thing you wouldn't understand.
@@andypeterson3070 A fashion victim is a fashion victim
..and a ballbag is a ballbag! 😂
Wish I could be like Billy watts
Nice little line green J series at about 1:10. 🛵🛵 One of these days..