Phat! – The 90’s Night
Ah the 90s. The last 10 years of the old, innocent world.
A time before mobile phones, well okay, the late 90s, but not on the scale we have now. You had to either use the house phone or go to the phone boxes to ring your friends, you had meeting points. You were probably wearing combat jeans, had big stupid floppy hair similar to David Beckham or one of the Backstreet Boys.
You had internet with a dial up connection, it took four days to view anything on line and you might have had to plug out the house phone to connect the lead.
You probably owned a Mega Drive or a Super Nintendo. You might have been picking Potatoes in the great summer sun of 1995, while Clare were lifting their first All-Ireland. Offaly won the All-Ireland in 1994 with the five minute final and the country was Dancing at the Crossroads as Wexford lifted the All-Ireland in 1996.
Cork started the decade with a double and ended it almost winning another. Dublin ended at 12 year drought winning in 1995 and Ulster football dominated the early to mid 90’s carrying Sam Maguire back North.
Packie Bonner saved penalties in Genoa but spilled the ball twice in 1990 and 1994 against Italy and Holland. We said goodbye to Jack Charlton, who went fishing.
There was the arrival of the great Ajax and Juventus teams, near misses for Manchester United until the treble was landed in 1999.
Sonia O’Sullivan endured a near miss in Barcelona and suffered a dose of the beefie tips in Atlanta ’96 but she won World titles and set world records.
Michael Carruth took Gold in Barcelona and Michelle Smith legally won three gold medals in Atlanta.
It was a decade of the Good Friday Agreement, the end of Northern Ireland conflict, the Gulf War, war in the Balkans.
Nelson Mandela was freed from prison and Bill Clinton’s happy endings came to an unhappy ending with the naming of Monika Lewinsky.
There was music, yes the music.
Aqua, Daphne and Celeste, Steps, S Club 7 and B*Witched assaulted our ear drums.
Tony Blair danced and celebrated his election to D’ream – Things Can Only Get Better, while Take That were the chart kings.
Louis Walsh gave us Boyzone. Celine Dion sank the Titanic, Cher made us Believe.
Boyz II Men were the coolest boy band in the world and a must have for any male looking for lust.
Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, the Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur all made music and departed to the Great Recording Studio in the Sky.
The Spice Girls made us Wannabe, while the All Saints looked for a Bootie Call and Britney Spears arrived in a school girl outfit.
Grunge rock was the rage with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, Electric Dance Music gave us the Chemical Brothers, Moby and Scooter. The Shamen and Prodigy were telling tales of Ebeneezer Goode, and starting fires.
Not forgetting, Blur, Oasis, Supergrass, The Verve, Pulp, Radiohead and Manic Street Preachers.
AOS Entertainment brings you a 90s night so Phat!, it needs a diet plan from weight watchers.
We bring the Phattest tunes as we explore the anthology and set course through a journey of hits and misses, musical brilliance and cringing face palm moments.
So break out the Apple Mac, feed the tamagotchi, set the VCR to record Dawson’s Creek, Friends,
Baywatch and Melrose Place.
Join us for a night of the 90s and just like Kevin and Perry, you will be “Havin’ it Large”.