Secret Affair - Time For Action
Working class lads taking pride in their appearance, looking sharp, having a laugh
In the wake of The jam there was a 'mod revival' aka 'New Mod" in 1979 - in the south you had the
faces of the scene:
Secret Affair,
The Purple Hearts,
The Chords - and from Huddersfield,
The Killermeters - and of course you had the 'plastic', fake record company hopefuls / posers
The Merton Parkas.. who remembers these now?
well, I sort of do, due to a New Years Eve night in a biker pub where, unexpectedly, the DJ threw on Secret Affair's
Time for Action and it 'went off' as the kids say, and i ended up dancing with rock chicks in leopard skin print ( exhibiting their 'animal' side )
cash in compilations hoping to capitalise on the release of Quadrophenia ( featuring Sting as the 'ace face' ) - bands no one remembers, all lost to history
Look at that scooter adorned with its poxy lights!
None of that shit for the forgotten youth cult of the 80s, the
Scooter Boys - I only know about this because my brother was one - chuck all that mod shit in the bin, scooter boys rode the moped equivalent of a 'chopper' - cut down, built for speed - no parkas, they're just going to get in the way, it was all US flight jackets and army surplus gear, nothing that's going to get tangled up
Scooter Boys!
My brother told me stories of Scooter Boy weekenders, necking as much acid and speed as you could, running down the high street of some seaside town head butting any fucker who got in the way, all to a soundtrack of Northern Soul
in a sense, anti-Weller, with his condescending "Style Council", the very name smacks of elitism and judgemental attitudes..