The mods, with their sharp Italian suits and Parkas, stood out absolutely from the cowhide covered and long-haired rockers. The mods viewed the rockers as outdated, grimy and boorish, while the rockers viewed the mods as being feminine, pretentious and weedy. There is an unmistakable difference between the Metropolitan and the rustic shades of England which the mod/rocker division outlines.

The melodic preferences contrasted extraordinarily as well. Mods leaned toward Jazz, Reggae and Soul while the rockers venerated the monsters of the rowdy period like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran.

All through the mid 1960s, mods and rockers would participate in fights in a significant number of England’s shoreline towns, especially along the South coast. Towns like Margate, Bournemouth, Brighton and Clacton were the location of much posse fighting right now. In 1964, reports seemed which gave the impression of a full-scale battle between the two clans. The media’s job in the contention was focal all along.

Subsequently the mod/rocker war turned into a subject of interest for the sociologists, clinicians and other society-intellectuals. Some saw the contention as run of the mill male-youth conduct while others viewed it as another peculiarity; this being pertinent when we think about that the development of innovation and the economy had now made conceivable mass-responsibility for and bicycles. The mod scene had been noted for its complexity and design wise; it currently ended up fairly unreasonably recast as the clan for degenerates and law breakers.

Fights between the two frequently happened where regions covered, or where rival groups occurred on each other. As noted, there was a metropolitan provincial split, implying that the gatherings could battle whenever united by some co-rate. Most frequently, such a situation would include an experience at one of the coastline towns; the holiday destination of decision for English youth in a time before mass air-travel.

In these fights, mods would frequently be furnished with fish-snares and razors which they had sewn into their coat lapels to shred the fingers of an aggressor. This was a typical strategy of the Teddy Kid groups of the last part of the 1950s. Weapons were utilized by the two sides obviously, including flick-blades, coshes and bicycle chains. The different fights and clashes raised all through the mid 1960s, finishing in Clacton in 1964 during the Easter weekend.

The second round of the savagery that started in Clacton happened a month after the fact during the Whitsun weekend break, when huge quantities of rocker and mod packs plunged on Margate, Brighton and Broadstairs, each side uninformed they had settled on a similar revitalizing objective. The opponent packs were straightforwardly battling, frequently destroying deckchairs or anything that brittle articles came to hand. Brighton saw the most obviously awful of the savagery, which seethed for two days prior to continuing on toward Hastings. It then, at that point, spilled once again into Brighton where one gathering of rockers had become caught on the ocean front there. Regardless of endeavors by the Police to safeguard them, they were attacked by groups of mods.

The papers lapped it up, depicting the fights as being of “grievous extents”. The mods and rockers were marked as “sawdust caesars” and “oafs”. Numerous paper articles stirred up agitation, with the Birmingham Post in 1964 advance notice that the mods and rockers were “inward foes” in the UK. If unchallenged, it went on, they (the mods and rockers) would “achieve the crumbling of a country’s personality”. The magazine Police Survey contended that the mods and rockers indicated absence of regard for regulation and request would make savagery “flood and fire like a woodland fire”
A few sociologists contended that as media-madness about blade using brutal mods expanded, the picture of the fur-nabbed parka and bike will undoubtedly incite reformatory responses among general society. Because of the media-inclusion, two English MPs visited the shoreline regions to overview the harm. This lead to MP Harold Gurden requiring a goal of escalated measures to control hooliganism.