Whatever your age, the 1990s are now a truly nostalgic era. From fashion trends, to films and music - there’s something for everyone to resonate with from this period.
It was a decade that featured the emergence of grunge music, Britpop, and New Labour. A number of bands including Oasis, Blur, Pulp and Radiohead hit the top of the UK charts during the 90s era, which was the last decade when guitar music was dominant in the charts.
The 1990s also saw advances in technology, with the World Wide Web and games consoles such as the first Play Station.
In Birmingham, the city centre roads were taken over by a Superprix to rival the likes of Monaco, we hosted the Eurovision Song Contest and a G8 Summit - with the likes of US President Bill Clinton, President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Tony Blair walking through the streets and Broad Street was transformed with Brindleyplace and the magnificent Symphony Hall and International Convention Centre.
Venues like The Jug Of Ale and The Flapper and Firkin also welcomed an explosion of guitar-based bands, while clubland welcomed a revolution in dance music, and crowds packed out The Que Club.
Here is a look back at some of the best bands to come out of the city during the era.
1. Ocean Colour Scene
Brit Pop band Ocean Colour scene were one of the biggest bands to emerge from the90s. The Birmingham bands have had five top 10 albums including a number one in 1997. They have also achieved seventeen top 40 singles and six top 10 singles to date. Their second album Moseley Shoals contained four hit singles and reached No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart. | BW Photo: Mail
2. The Streets
The Streets may be known for the their iconic debut Original Pirate Material, but the project was actually founded in the early 90s, while Mike Skinner was still a teenager growing up in Birmingham's West Heath - however, no music would formally eventuate until the early 2000s. The Streets went on to release a string of successful singles which reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles chart – including "Has It Come to This?", "Fit but You Know It", "Dry Your Eyes" | google
3. Fine Young Cannibals
The band formed in Birmingham in the mid 1980s by former The Beat band bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox with singer Roland Gift (pictured). Their album, The Raw & the Cooked, topped the UK, US, Australian and Canadian album chart and in 1990, the band won two Brit Awards: Best British Group and Best British Album | Roland Lee Gift Photo: Steve Gunn
4. Higher Intelligence Agency at the Que Club in Birmingham
Formed in 1992 by Bobby Bird, the HIA were part of the same scene as ground-breaking experimental club night, Oscillate. Pioneering an instrumental sound that became known as ‘ambient techno’, The HIA released their debut album, Colourform, in 1993, while other releases included Birmingham Frequencies - a collaboration with Biosphere that featured background sounds from the city, and was recorded at a live performance on the 12th floor of The Rotunda. | Dave Freak