It was a decade of change. It changed music, aesthetics, entertainment. It pointed to a new way of life that consumes culture and establishes relationships. The impact 60s continues to live in the dreams of new generations, but at the same time an aesthetic that never dies.
Photographer Álex Amorós from Alicante, who has lived in London for ten years, wanted to show and show this. that trace is still very alive, those years that continued to move thousands of people and that he remembers with his band, drink Experiment, or as a DJ, they are today at the altar of dedication in the English capital.
Between 2019 and this year, Amorós has worked, touring different festivals and revival meetings of the sixties scene.n As in London, Brighton and Margatewhere The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Doors they keep playing.
The result is put together Scene, A 32-page fanzine with A selection of 20 photosPublished by Sugar Kane Editions.
The 60s were the beginning of a new musical and social era, especially with the well-known movements of London. Rocking London or the British Invasion later it acted globally and this project was used both in different revival events of the sixties scene and How in London, Brighton and Margate.
“What I’m trying to capture and honor this movement is and how sixty years later the sixties scene still exists, They are followers of an era that forever changes the perspective on life, both hedonistic and musically and aesthetically,” says the photographer, who has realized various photography projects, is one of them. It’s about Brexit, his confinement in that city or the chairs of the Esplanade of Alicante.
“These people gather at events, dance and enjoy their favorite music in their best clothes. northern spirit, mod, garage clean or psychedelia“As an active integral part of him, on both the photographic and musical levels, and my obligation was to reflect his current legacy,” a philosophy he also shared.
In addition to personal entertainment, Álex Amorós captured both events held in different historical places in London and some events from the past to the present on his camera. the most famous festivals.
This situation Le Beat Bespoke, It is one of the most important of this movement. Room mousetrapcelebrated since 30 years At the historic venue Orleans Bar in Finsbury Park and brings people from all over Europe together. “There are places that are closely related to the music of the sixties, but they work differently in London than in Spain. In England, the organizers rent the rooms to organize their parties.”
Amorós is one of those life style. They collect records, they play records, their aesthetics belong to the 60s because they wear the clothes of that period and dance with that style.”
Loyalty to all that smells of that decade, according to the photographer, “because people still live in that dream and its main purpose is to dance and have fun, the culture stays alive and there is still a hidden audience, so I was interested in the atmosphere, not the bands. what these people feel for this lifestyle“.
In addition, “new generations are following him, both at the level of the bands and the audience, because I think so. pure music; Then there’s the music of the ’90s that was heavily influenced by the ’60s.”
Scene It will be presented in December in London and also in Milan.
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In parallel with this project, he worked on another project. fanzine about mods, Also, a sixties culture whose name derives from the modernist term confirms that in the UK these features are also performed at various festivals, “many of which are related to the same 60s”.
“There is usually scooter works These sixties mornings when scooter culture lovers were heavily inspired by the movie quadrophenia get together and go for a motorcycle ride together”. Concentrations, usually with prizes, with mods “dressed in their best clothes for fun” with their vespas and lambrettas“.
“My project is carried out in the same three cities, but in this case I find myself scooter running culture and I think he’s still very present today and his followers are loyal”.