In the early Eighties there was a Mod club called Kommotion which operated from the Prince Alfre Hotel in Chapel ST. (or was it Church St.) in Burnley (or Richmond). The night was run by Chris Hunter and Michael Phillips, two mods. The room was small but the speakers were huge. Some nights I DJed. Some nights I just hung out. Everybody danced. At times, in the spirit of Quadrophenia mods would jump off the speakers to be caught by the crowd. "Night Boat to Cairo" was usually the last song of the night and everyone went crazy dancing around the small room. Yes, it was madness.
We all had pictures taken doing the Madness walk.
After dancing we'd all move out to the courtyard where scooters were lined up along the walls finish off our drinks and head home, tired, drunk and sweaty. Or if we were lucky we'd find another place to go to. Caseys in Brighton started a Mod night and we started going down there after. It was great and it was only a Wednesday night! The weekend was on it's way. work on Thursday was usually pretty rough. Often I'd turn up to teach kids with remnants of eyeliner. (Mod fashion). Actually by the morning I probably looked more goth than mod.
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