History Main / ScooterRidingMod

* Music/MickJagger looks sharp even when playing a {{Gunslinger}} in ''Film/NedKelly''. At one point he wears a frilly shirt, pointy boots and velvet coat that could have come straight from Carnaby Street.

A sort of precursor to the 2010s-era {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s[[note]]the name referred to fans of "modern" jazz as opposed to the Dixieland-listening "trad" fandom[[/note]]. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, sporting glasses with thick square frames, listening to "beat" music, soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheBeatles, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "{{Greaser|Delinquents}}" look and listened to American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture died out in the late 1960s (although its more working-class and aggressive strand mutated into UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}), experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s and the IndieRock and PopRevival movements in the early-mid 2010s.

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* ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': The 2014 chapter, "The Case Of The Modern Men", involves a resurgence of mod culture in the comic's setting of Tackleford, complete with scooters and conflict with local rockers.

** The Twelfth Doctor's costume is supposed to evoke a "Mod Man in a Box", although it sometimes looks more like a toned-down smart skinhead style.

A sort of precursor to the modern {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, listening to soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "{{Greaser|Delinquents}}" look and American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture died out in the late 1960s (although its more working-class and aggressive strand mutated into UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}), experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s.

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* ''Long Hot Summer,'' by Eric Stephenson and artist Creator/JamieMcKelvie, follows a young mod in Southern California during the revival of the 1980s.

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* 2003 Oni Press miniseries ''Scooter Girl''.

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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Twelfth Doctor's costume is supposed to evoke a "Mod Man in a Box".

* DCComics 1960s teen humour title ''Swing With Scooter'' centred around a scooter riding Mod.

* The younger people in MadMen get into the style of this subculture during a few seasons of the show. Peggy even wears a mod-styled dress while riding a scooter and Sally Draper sports some go-go boots.

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* Mick Jagger looks sharp even when playing a {{Gunslinger}} in {{Film/Ned Kelly}}. At one point he wears a frilly shirt, pointy boots and velvet coat that could have come straight from Carnaby Street.

** As an {{Agent Peacock}}, the Third Doctor's costume was inspired by the Swinging London look of the late 1960s.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', Vince goes for the Mod look.

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''Why that uncertain feeling is still here in my brain"''\\
-- '''Music/TheWho''', "[[Music/{{Quadrophenia}} Cut My Hair]]"

A sort of precursor to the modern {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, listening to soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "[[GreaserDelinquents Greaser]]" look and American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture died out in the late 1960s (although its more working-class and aggressive strand mutated into UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}), experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s.

* Several characters in the 2010 film of ''Literature/BrightonRock'', which is set in 1964 and uses the Brighton Beach Riots as a backdrop.

A sort of precursor to the modern {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, listening to soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "[[GreaserDelinquents Greaser]]" look and American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture died out in the late 1960s (although its more working-class and aggressive strand mutated into UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}), experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s.

A sort of precursor to the modern {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, listening to soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "[[GreaserDelinquents Greaser]]" look and American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s.

* Dave Gibbons' graphic novel ''The Originals'' is about [[RecycledInSpace futuristic]] HoverBike-riding mods in a dystopian society.

A sort of precursor to the modern {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, listening to soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "[[GreaserDelinquent Greaser]]" look and American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s.

A sort of precursor to the modern {{Hipster}}, only with far more amphetamines and street fights, the Mod subculture emerged in England in the early 1960s. Characteristics included wearing tailor-made suits and army jackets, listening to soul, ska, and R&B as well as bands such as Music/TheWho, Music/TheKinks and Music/TheSmallFaces, riding Italian scooters, and fighting with TheRival Rocker subculture, who preferred the leather-jacketed "Greaser" look and American rock and roll music like Music/ChuckBerry and Music/ElvisPresley. This rivalry came to a head at the Brighton Beach Riots of 1964, as shown in the film ''{{Quadrophenia}}''. The subculture experienced a revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and subsequently influenced the {{Britpop}} explosion in the 1990s.

* The [[DoctorWho Twelfth Doctor]]'s costume is supposed to evoke a "Mod Man In A Box".