THE MODCAST

Founded in 2010 by Eddie Piller and Sarah Bolshi, the Modcast began life as an hour-long monthly podcast with a wide variety of guests including Martin Freeman and Bradley Wiggins all talking about their passion and interest in all things mod. The podcast soon attracted 25,000 iTunes subscribers and can now be found on regular weekly shows on www.totallywiredradio.com. Further to the success of the podcast, the founders started hosting parties.

The first has become by far the most popular and regular; a Sunday cruise up and down the Thames that soon became known as simply ‘the Modboat’. Indeed, the boat parties became so successful that they are held three times a year, and the most recent one sold out in all of 84 minutes! But the Modcast didn’t rest on its burnished laurels, instead, they branched out – Alldayers at the Singer, a superbly converted former sewing-machine factory in the east end of London, an annual beach beano on the Brighton seafront every august bank holiday, regular ‘away-day’ events at other seaside resorts and regular New Year’s Eve rave-ups. The music policy has always been to push the boundaries of what can be played and accepted on a scene that for many years has appeared as a northern soul ghetto. You can hear house and hip hop alongside the staple mod fare and this open-mindedness has increased both the appeal and the demographic away from the parka-wearing mainstream.

The pair hosted their first weekender in 2019 with a fabulous DJ lineup and talks with Kenney Jones (Small Faces), Buddy Ascot (The Chords), and Gaz Sparks (Purple Hearts) in conversation with Eddie and Terry Rawlings… The old Blue Note sound system has been bought of retirement for some fabulous sound.

The 2019 DJ lineup included Dr. Bob Jones (legend!), Ivor Jones, Marc Lessner, Dean Thatcher (Studio 45), Rocky (Ballistic Brothers), Jeff Barrett (Heavenly Records), Wendy May (The Locomotion), Wil Nicol, Dean Chalkley, Jo Wallace (Ramrock Records), Eddie Stenner, Tony “Mappy” Hayzer, Ian and Rob, Des Cridland and residents Paul “Smiler” Anderson and Dave Edwards.