Going underground: mod revival fanzines – in pictures

Over the past year, Acid Jazz label owner/DJ Ed Piller and designer Steve Rowland have been putting together a book of mod revival fanzines from 1978 to 1984, entitled Modzines. “They’re an important social record,” Piller says. “By 1980, the mainstream media was virtually ignoring the enormous mod revival, apart from to disparage it.” Fanzines existed to “inform mods about culture, fashion and music”, says Piller. Their creation was aided by the rise of