It’s that festive time of year again, and if you have a single empathetic bone in your body then the Christmas season should bring about an overwhelming sense of emotion from deep within you: namely guilt.

The British will flock to homeless shelters on Christmas eve to serve the less fortunate warm turkey soup, the Polish will lay an extra space on the table for the weary lost traveller and the 93 Feet East team will be hosting a fund raising bar event, aiding Shelter to provide better housing for those without fire places to pin their stockings to.

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But hark, ‘tis not all doom and gloom. Who says we can’t help and have fun? It’s going to be a fantastic evening no doubt, and here’s why:

• Every drink you buy raises money for Shelter
• We’re giving away warm mince pies
• We’ll be serving hot mulled wine
• We have the best pink bar DJs spinning for us (Young Offenders’ Institute and Wreck It Up and Power Up!)
• We also have 93’s in house Chrimbo DJ’s The 90-3 French Hen Cartel and Seven Swans A Sh*tting
• We have a spankingly good new soundsystem
• It’s FREE ENTRY

Now doesn’t that look fantastic? Make sure your here next Wednesday the 16th.

More info:

http://england.shelter.org.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=193514782235&ref=ts

See you here!
Stas@93

The brilliant Power Up! Returns to 93’s bar on December 10th. The last one was a huge hit, with awesome dancers, Street Fighter II battles on the projector, free sweets and great music. Decembers’ Christmas themed party is sure to be just as awesome, if not more.

Power Up! DJ 25ThC has provided us with this cheese-tastic mash up of 90s Christmas tunes to whet your appetite for the event.

Grab it here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/689292679565e34b/

More info:

http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/diary/index.cfm?View=Day&EventDate=2009-12-10

http://myspace.com/powerupparty

See you here!
Stas@93

We had a riot of a time last Thursday. Sparkle Motion were fantastic, the Mega Drive proved a hit and sherbert UFO’s were gobbled all night. There’s a video of the girls coming up soon, but in the mean time have some photographic memories for you:

Enjoy!
Stas@93

Power Up! is a new free Pink Bar event created as a celebration of all things 90’s. With retro sweets, dancing girls and mega drive games on the projector - all to a soundtrack of the best the 90’s had to offer, from hardcore to britpop - it’s sure to be an awesome night, and it’s happening next Thursday!

We caught up with the Power Up! DJ’s to see what they miss most about their favourite decade. 25ThC expressed his love for Kiss 100, Daft Punk and Wham bars. Long Distance Dan remembered beanies and Dance Energy. Now the last of the DJ trinity, DeeJay Specialneeds, reminisces…

HARDCORE

I became a teenager in January 1990, so my memories of the decade do have a rose tinted hue for the most part. Most of the fashions and fads from the time have all but been forgotten and replaced with something new but the lasting legacy for me was the music. It was hearing the sound of ‘Hardcore’ for the first time via a 3rd generation mix tape recorded at a rave that changed my life. The blend of  time stretched hip hop breaks and techno bleeps was the greatest thing I had ever heard. This was my music and in turn the music led to a way of life.

I started saving my pocket money to buy records from labels like Suburban Base, Moving Shadow and Kickin. When I did get a new 12” I would play it over and over again at full blast on my hand me down pioneer belt drive turntable. My bedroom was covered with flyers for parties, raves and club nights. It was lucky for me that the words over 18’s only on these flyers did not seem to mean anything so I could enjoy the sounds of the hardcore as they were intended, in big sweaty rooms with loads of other young nutters. By the time I was 18 the scene had moved on and hardcore had turned into either saccharine sweet super fast cheese or the dark brooding sound of drum and bass. I was drawn to the latter but it never was the same as those first few years of madness.

STREET FIGHTER 2

Way back in the day before anyone had internet at home or even decent computers the only real choice for playing game was on a console or at the arcades. The big game at the arcades in early 90’s was Street fighter 2. We would bunk off school and spend our dinner money playing in the arcade. Then it was announced a near perfect conversion was going to come out on the Super Nintendo…

A short time passes and my little crew of game addicts became friends with a chap that had a Super Nintendo and a flat with parents that were never there from the other school in town. Somehow he got hold of an import copy of Street Fighter 2 despite it costing near to £100 new (we were about 14 at the time and this was more money than most of us had seen at the time) I think it was a nice warm summer, however my memory’s are of it being in a bedroom with 10 lads crowded round a small tv shouting ‘it’s winner stays on’ & ‘I am up next, I am going to cain you this time’ puffing on Bensons with Ellis D mix tapes blasting on the stereo.

Ha-do-ken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDPYRCMgEJ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYHmz8OgpI0

Don’t forget, it’s finally happening next Thursday 22nd October. Get down early for the sweets!

More info:

http://www.myspace.com/powerupparty

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148508541060

http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/diary/index.cfm?View=Day&EventDate=2009-10-22

See you here!
Stas@93

Power Up! is a new free Pink Bar event created as a celebration of all things 90’s. With retro sweets, dancing girls and mega drive games on the projector - all to a soundtrack of the best the 90’s had to offer, from hardcore to britpop - it’s sure to be an awesome night. We caught up with the Power Up! DJ’s to see what they miss most about their favourite decade. Last time 25ThC expressed his love for Kiss 100, Daft Punk and Wham bars. This week Long Distance Dan steps up…

DANCE ENERGY

In 1990, as part of the Def II schedule on BBC2, Janet Street Porter commissioned a live dance music show entitled Dance Energy. Hosted by the one and only Normski, the show featured live performances by the high flyers on the underground dance scene, including hip hop, rave, techno, ragga, acid jazz and so on. The great thing was, whilst these acts would play their latest tunes, all audience members would dance. Not just stand there admiring their favourite bands, but dance their arses off like they would in any club or party. This is what set Dance Energy apart from other so called youth programs - it truly focused on the kids, whether it was the kids making the music or the ones who were out there dancing to it, there was no divide. Members of the audience, or the dance squad as they were known, over the years included gerry Halliwell and comedian Gina Yashere.

They also focused heavily on fashion, with Normski doing a weekly look at what the dance squad were wearing, and regular fashion segments from different countries. 

Looking back on it now, it was a ground breaking show, bringing the early 90’s underground youth culture to the masses in a early evening slot on BBC2.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0c5eLi0KeU
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGI84NrTSTY&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HjBgYeSArA&feature=related

THE RISE OF THE BEANIE

Back in the old days, before the 1990’s, if it was cold outside you would put on a bobble hat, balacava or just a plan old wooly hat. However, in the early 90’s this all changed; the beanie hat was introduced to us from America. I think my first experience of the beanie was seeing Ice Cube on the cover of Amerikkka’s Most Wanted album, wearing a plan black beanie looking like he had just escaped from prison. A look that was very appealing to a 12 year old kid at the time. First it was the hip hop kids wearing thm, then the grunge kids, and soon everyone and their dad had one.

My first beanie was bought in C17, it was black with a Jets american football logo on it. I wonder what ever happened to it? I then went on to own many different ones, including a Greenbay Packers one, that I actually nicked off my brother. I remember wearing this to school and being laughed at by my class mates, ahead of time of course, as soon they would all be wearing them. I also remember a year or so later, at school playing hockey or football on a freezing cold winters day, with freshly shaved hair, being told I wasn’t allowed to wear my hat even if it was just to keep warm. Bastards!

The world of hats has never been the same since!

More Info:

http://www.myspace.com/powerupparty

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148508541060

http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/diary/index.cfm?View=Day&EventDate=2009-10-22

See you there!
Stas@93  

Power Up! is a new free Pink Bar event created as a celebration of all things 90’s. With retro sweets, dancing girls and mega drive games on the projector - all to a soundtrack of the best the 90’s had to offer, from hardcore to britpop - it’s sure to be an awesome night. We caught up with the Power Up! DJ’s to see what they miss most about their favourite decade, starting with 25ThC…

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