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EDDIE PILLER presents THE MOD REVIVAL

4cd bookset - £31.99 | Buy
In 1979 as a 15 year old Eddie Piller was perfectly placed to be at the epicentre of the Mod revival.
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Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present Jazz On The Corner

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From the rolling hard bop of Lee Morgan and Art Blakey, via screaming soul organ, jazz funk original acid jazz onwards to the post-modern spiritual jazz of Kasa...
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Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present Soul On The Corner

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Following last year’s acclaimed Jazz On The Corner compilation 2019 again sees Martin Freeman team up with Acid Jazz’s renowned head honcho Eddie Pi...
Eddie Piller Presents - British Mod Sounds Of the 1960s

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limited 140g indies only red & blue 2lp - £27.99 | Buy
This 2LP set serves an introduction to 'British Mod Sounds of the '60s’ and features 34 tracks.
Eddie Piller Presents - British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2

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140g black 2lp - £31.99 | Buy
A deep dive into the post Mod scene in '60s Britain, Featuring a selection of classic and rare tracks, tracing the scene from early '65 to the dawn of a...
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances : A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz

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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances : A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz

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  • Limited Signed Hardback book

    Released: 6th Apr 2023

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    Expected Release: 6th Jun 2024

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The ultimate mod memoir - from Britain's best-known 'face', with a foreword by Paul Weller.



'Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many' - Paul Weller
'A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book' - Mani, The Stone Roses
'What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about what decade you lived in, it's about your attitude, and this book has tons of it' - Kenney Jones, The Small Faces

This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then... WHAAAM!

An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever. Written with humour, passion and attention to detail, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir, taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz. A born storyteller, Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music.

We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence. Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can-do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine, putting on club nights, hustling jobs in the music industry, and eventually setting up a record label. It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise... Visceral and always entertaining, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time.