As an armchair sociologist I find Mod very interesting.
I used to hang out on the fringes of the Leicester Mod scene and found it to be a very curious social phenomeneon where everyone was desperate to prove that someone else wasn't as 'Mod' as they were by striving to find an unwritten rule book that defined their subculture.
It's like everyone was trying to take it back to be more authentic than it was at the time. As a pervading social movement I can't find much evidence for it's duration, I supose it might be a bit like the Blur V Oasis period of the mid-ninties might be perceived in twenty years time?
Did many bands at the time define themselves as Mod? – Was it a bit like Grunge in this respect?
Discus
1500 words, on my desk by Wednesday morning, that'll be all class.