The best of the Mod revival singles in my mind was this glorious single from The Chords. Yes it sounds a bit like The Jam but that's no bad thing when the song is as good as anything the Jam did. Actually although I loved a lot of the stuff that came out under the new Mod banner this was just really kicked. Full of energy and really capturing the spirit of punk matched to the style of Modernism. It's exciting and I hoped this would lead to something bigger for this band. Unfortunately the Mod bands all disappeared and it was gone like some fad.
Over in Australia there were articles about us where the threat of extinction hung over our heads because of our association with Mods. Often I see a note that Little Murders died with the end of the big Mod revival in 1981. Mod didn't die. My mate Poz's band was a big Mod band a few years later. Mods still ran clubs. The party continued. Except no longer in the public eye. Little Murders played to bigger crowds. Went to different places. We kept on going. We recorded plenty of stuff. But we did remove the Union Jacks from the amps. And my Union Jack coat went in the cupboard. And the crowd was still rowdy but the Mods had moved on.
But a real good time was had by all. A couple of years ago we supported From The Jam and all the old and new Mods were there and it was a brilliant night. A real good time singing the anthems of our youth. We should of covered this song though.
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