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Birmingham was a great city to live in the 1990s.

Lots of our major landmarks were built, we hosted huge international events and our football clubs were on fire.

We take a fun look back at the 14 things that made you a Brummie in the 1990s...

You shopped at Oasis Market

If you were a student, you probably spent many a happy hour shopping at Oasis Market and drinking in the Sacks of Potatoes and the Pot of Beer in Aston. Who remains watching Pop Will Eat Itself perform there?

You moshed at Snobs

If pop wasn’t your thing, then you were probably a regular at Snobs, which was a favourite haunt of bands like Oasis, Blur and Muse.

And Birmingham’s homegrown talent, such as Duran Duran, Ocean Colour Scene and Black Sabbath made sure they returned to play in their hometown this decade.

It was the time when everyone greeted each other with a friendly ‘Wassup!’ from the Budweiser advert.

You did the Macarena (go on, admit it!)

Your Saturday night would generally end up at The Dome, or Dome II as it later became, dancing to the Macarena and Whigfield’s Saturday Night. Were you there when Denise Van Outen was joined by Sean Maguire, Errol Reid of China Black (remember Searching?), Michelle Gayle and Richard Traviss of Bad Boys Inc. as part of Radio 1’s Massive Music Tour in 1995?

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You did at least one all-nighter

Birmingham planted itself firmly on the house music club scene in the 1990s with nights like Wobble and Crunch at Branstons nightclub in Hockley, Miss Moneypennies at Bonds Nightclub and Sundiessential in the city’s gay village. Remember 22 dance clubs where you partied here.

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You tried snails and scallops for the first time

Up until now, there was no fine dining to be had in the city. The best you could hope for would be to head down to Chinatown for some great noodles and rice or into the Balti Triangle for a curry.

Then, Raymond Blanc decided to open Le Petit Blanc in Brindleyplace and views started to change on Birmingham as a culinary capital, leading to Simpsons opening Edgbaston, and a young Glynn Purnell started turning heads at Jessica’s at the start of the millennium too.

You had a pint in the same pub as President Clinton

You proudly told your friends you’d drank in The Malt House, after president Clinton supped a pint during the G8 Summit. 1998 was a spectacular year for Birmingham.

Not only did we welcome world leaders to the Summit (where a pregnant Melanie Blatt performed on stage with All Saints), but we also hosted the Lions Conference and even, wait for it, Eurovision. It was won, of course, by Dana International of Israel.

You saw the Spice Girls (or some equally cheesy pop band)

Even if you didn’t want to Zig-a-zig-ah, there was no getting away from the Posh, Ginger, Scary, Sporty and Baby, who spiced up our lives at Birmingham NEC in May 1998. Teen bands like Take That, Atomic Kitten, Boyzone, 5ive, Steps and East 17 were everywhere.

Robbie Williams fans loved it when he played the NEC in 1999 as part of his solo tour.

You drank MD 20/20 in John Bright Street

A Friday night out involved putting on your catsuit, tying your hair back in a scrunchie (if you hadn’t embraced the ‘Rachel’ cut) and hopping on the bus into town to drink Mad Dog 20/20 and other alcopops at Paramount in John Bright Street and Central Park on Smallbrook Queensway, where the bar staff danced on the tables.

Your football team was flying

The nineties was an amazing decade for our football clubs. Birmingham City won the Leyland DAF Cup at Wembley in 1991, beating Tranmere Rovers 3-2.

Then, in 1993, West Bromwich Albion beat Port Vale 3-0 in the English League Division Two Play Off Final at Wembley Stadium and things started to look up as they went into division two. Aston Villa fans had much to celebrate when their team beat Manchester United 3-1 in the Coca-Cola League Cup at Wembley in 1994, only to do it again in 1996 when they defeated Leeds.

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You loved Broad Street

Thanks to the arrival of the NIA (opened by none other than Linford Christie) and the development of Brindleyplace, Broad Street was a thriving place to be.

Suddenly the gateway into the city was alive with salsa classes from the new Latin Motion team and cool jazz at Ronnie Scott’s. Who didn’t love a night at the trendy Stoodi Bakers before dancing til the small hours at Bakers on Five Ways?

You got your first taste of the exotic

You watched food prepared right before your eyes at Miyako Teppanyaki - the first Japanese restaurant to open in Birmingham back in 1993.

The Arcadian Centre, in the heart of Chinatown, was the place to go to experience cuisine and culture from around the world, hosting everything from Latin American festivals to Chinese Dragon dancing. Our first dedicated comedy club, The Glee Club, opened there in 1993 too.

You saw the Queen

There was great excitement when the Queen came to officially launch the ICC and Symphony Hall in 1991. With its world class acoustics and stunning auditorium, it was considered to be not only the UK’s finest concert hall but one of the best in the world, and still is today.

You took the tram to go to C&A

The Midland Metro launched towards the end of this decade, making it easier to carry home all those bags from the shops you loved, like C&A, Etam, Mark One and Tempest Records.

You saw it first at the Odeon

Though Star City was launched in 1998 in a star-studded ceremony attended by the likes of Julie Walters and Lord Richard Attenborough, it was still The Odeon in New Street which most people gravitated to.

It hosted a premier of cult nineties film Notting Hill in 1999 which was attended by actor Hugh Bonneville and his wife. This is the place we went to watch movies like Clueless, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Schindler’s List and Matrix. Oh, and everyone knew the rules of Fight Club.