Party like it's 1995, with a seventies haircut

For some time now I have been longing back to the nineties. The nineties? Yes, I am totally reliving the nineties here in Manchester. Probably I would've been reliving them too if I wasn't in Manchester, but I am here now.
I feel I need to explain this, because even though I can't actually see your faces I bet there's some puzzled ones amongst you.
Most of my reliving the nineties is music wise. Though I took all recent cd's with me, I have been longing to listen to The Dance Hall Crashers, Letters to Cleo, No doubt and many other bands that were popular back then.
I even bought a Texas cd (second hand), just to listen to the songs 'Say what you want' and 'Black eyed boy'. Turns out, the rest of the album is pretty good too. I also bought a cd-single of The Wannadies, anyone remember them? They were on Bhaz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet soundtrack if I'm not mistaken (wait, looking that up right now....'You and me song' The Wannadies, I rule!!).
I think I know what brought this strange nineties urge on.
A couple of weeks ago I visited indiepages.com for the first time. I found the link because a friend on myspace had recommended me a band (Math and Physics Club!) and I could download some of their songs there. Little did I know that there was a whole lot of other amazing indie bands on there as well (Voxtrot, Colombus and Lovedance to name but a few). I downloaded the best songs onto my mp3-player and listened to nothing else but those songs for a while. A couple of those bands definately have some sort of nineties sound/ feeling to them. And so it came, I think that I started to long back to hearing the music I used to listen to when I was a wee teenager.
I was in for another treat at that level, because twice in the past couple of weeks have I been at clubs where they played classic dance songs from the nineties! Now normally I'm not a fan of dance music, but if they are classic songs I'm the first to bust a move!
Best of those two nights was last friday. I went to Queen of Hearts with a couple American guys and a couple of British ones (one of which it was his birthday) and one German guy. Most of them were pretty drunk already when we got to the club, I was not the least bit under the influence. But hey, who needs alcohol when you're out with a couple of drunk guys? Okay, yeah maybe you need some, to be able to put up with them ;) (Joke, Love you guys!!!!)
Anyway, as you can guess they played a whole bunch of nineties dance classics, like Snap's 'Rythm is a Dancer', Gala's 'Freed from Desire' and Underworld's 'Born Slippy'!!! Boy oh boy was I breaking a sweat dancing to those songs (not really though, or yeah I was but that was because the dancefloor was kind of too crowded)
Then on sunday, as if my weekend couldn't get any better, I listened to nineties weekend all afternoon on a radio station. It was my turn to clean the kitchen, but it didn't matter because there was nineties weekend, oh yeah; REM (shiny happy people) Four Non Blondes (what's going on?) etc.
'Wait Fleur, you skipped saturday!' Yes well saturday didn't really fit into the nineties picture. I went shopping to find a new hat, but didn't succeed. I did go to Primark again, this time trying on six items and thus not having to carry around a bunch of socks ;) I've taken some pictures, now it's up to you to guess which one item I bought. (The pictures are a bit out of focus, but hey, I was in an f-ing dressing room okay?)






Furthermore, I am longing back to nineties by wanting to walk around in old Doc. Martens shoes and I definitely want a Claire Danes 'My So Called Life' haircut. I won't die it that colour though, but I do want the haircut! I'm going for it! So take a good look at my current haircut (actually the people who I'll see in April will get a chance to see my old haircut too), because before you know it I'll be back from the nineties ;)
p.s. I posted the picture that goes with the post on me being excessively drunk.
p.s.p.s. For all the Dutch people who read this, I do occasionaly post on The Holland Corner, could you be so kind as to leave a comment every now and then? :P