Rites Of Passage

"We are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods"

Today I found the passage that Phil Daniels and Lesley Ash took refuge in during the riot scene in the film Quadrophenia. While Sting was throwing chairs through shop windows and bouncing up and down, quite frankly looking like a bit of a dick, cheeky chappy Phil was getting it on with the nations favourite Fairy Liquid girl.

Lesley Ash having sex?? How very dare she!

It's a narrow little alley and easily missed. Just off East Street, it has become a site of pilgrimage for mods. Each year the wall is freshly painted only to be redecorated by scooter riding bank holiday pilgrims.