The Mod On

Biography

The Bernese rock band The Mod On is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year: the band gave its first concert in December 1983. To mark this occasion, an album with about 14 new songs will now be released at the end of 2023. While the band was stylistically oriented towards new wave and post-punk in the 80s, their current sound can best be classified as indie pop/folk.
In the eventful eighties, we were not only an integral part of the alternative Bernese and national music scene, but also actively involved in the opening up of new cultural spaces as part of the youth and cultural movement of the time, which are now part of the established cultural scene. In the political actions around the Berner Reitschule, Dampfzentrale, Gaskessel, Zaff etc. we were part of the musical soundtrack of that time.
Since 2015 the band plays live again and releases new songs in digital format every 4 months since 2021, available on all streaming and download channels, partly with the corresponding promotion videos on youtube. In addition, a large part of our discography material from the 80s is digitized and made available on the streaming channels under the "Chronicles" section.