MOD REBORN, SKA REVITALIZED
Secret Affair’s second single, “Let Your Heart Dance," joins the charts in a week when the impact of Mod on the mainstream is so marked that the music stops being a sub-culture. Down at the Lyceum, The Specials and The Selector are joined by The Beat for a major excursion by the cream of multi-racial ska/ rocksteady bands.
MOD REBORN, SKA REVITALIZED
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
by
Penny Valentine
Why don’tyou go to a go-go To strut down in Soho With a two tonic smile N , Goodbye to the pogo t And tired old disco Time for a little more Let your heart dance.
Secret Affair’s second single, “Let Your Heart Dance," joins the charts in a week when the impact of Mod on the mainstream is so marked that the music stops being a sub-culture.
Down at the Lyceum, The Specials and The Selector are joined by The Beat for a major excursion by the cream of multi-racial ska/ rocksteady bands. A massive audience of Mods is supplemented by frantic journalists jostling to elbow in to The Event. An NME reporter is heard at the door hustling for his press pass; “But if 1 can’t get in, how can I review it...?” Wafts plaintively on the night air. By such cries shall ye know that Mod music has not only made the grade butthe gravy. It seems therefore unsurprising that Bob Geldof is checking it out but, more importantly, so isSiouxsie Sioux.