as much as i wish i got it perfectly right when i was 17, there’s a alarming amount of loud and stupid crap i gladly saved up for way back when.
old me disliking young me’s music shocker.
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I think the difference is that with the entire history of the world available in a box in their hands, kids today (from a lot of what I’ve seen on social media) have little or no connection/knowledge of musical lineage before their birth. We all came up reading about music in the NME and Melody Maker and journo’s would often reference obvious influences when reviewing or interviewing a new band. It sparked us to track back and seek this source. I’m not sure that happens today due to the way music and media is rapidly consumed and then scrolled to the next serotonin reward.
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So right, my 17yr old was going to her first one day festival here last summer and I had a look at who was playing and I only heard of one or two, I said you should go to see Romy and she said no I don’t follow her 
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Oppenheimer.
Like Dunkirk, if only Nolan had used cgi. No sense of scale
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I loathed it.
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Yes.
Managed to make a thrilling story dull.
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Bet those slip ons cost an arm and a leg and yet still looks like that bloke who’s in the bookies /pub every night with a yellow tache and a smokers death rattle.
What’s ‘mod’ about dressing like it’s 1965?
Also while I’m at it, the relentless fawning over fucking Quadrophenia… Babylon is a far more culturally relevant film even in the 21st century (despite Karl Howman)
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Just don’t call their Vespas or whatever mopeds, or on second thoughts do 
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The Zone of Interest should have won everything. Oppenheimer was tosh.
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Look at that smug look on Freeman’s face!
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It was too bad because the book was amazing! Recommended!
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The pizza express artwork isn’t helping either
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actual lol
Rothko lite!
chosen to match the seat
It’s a Joseph Albers (or copy) don’t you know. Big Bauhaus bod.
I never got the Mod thing or Northern Soul for that matter or indeed why a few of them suddenly latched on to ALFOS? A tribal connection? I think that’s why I’m always an outsider everywhere, I just don’t fit the t-shirt. I used to beat myself up about cliques and stuff but you eventually realise it’s not worth it.
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Mod and Northern Soul are both brilliant (for me). I was a Mod aged 13 and it’s always stayed with me, even through House and partying.
I’ve still got my '65 Lambretta. Love scooters, hate the people (mostly) that ride them. I was only ever in a scooter club for about a year before I realised how many of them were the worst racist Little England xenophobic cun*s.
So yeah. Don’t get involved in clubs!
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As a young mod ticket (14yrs in 79) Northern Soul (and ska) was my very first experience of proper black music and dancing, so has been hugely important to me ever since.
Most of my punkier mates ended up listening to goth in the 80s, while the Yardbirds/Who mods ended up taking a circuitous route to Zeppelin and heavier stuff.
Northern Soul saved me 
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