It is a Mod weekender, not a scooter rally as such, however, during the day there’s always an abundance of scooters parked up and on display along part of Madeira Drive. For almost two decades, The New Untouchables organisation has been holding its Mod weekender in Brighton over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The south coast resort is perceived as the spiritual home of Mod, more so since being immortalised in the film Quadrophenia.
A very Modern phenomenon
When The New Untouchables, aka NUT, first relocated to Brighton for its annual August celebration of 21st century modernist ideals inspired by 1960s Mod culture back in 2004, it was a relatively modest gathering. Brighton itself at that time had relatively