http://m.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/revival-of-the-90s-shows-it-can-pay-to-hold-a-grunge-20111022-1mdsy.html

I'm not sure if you've been out at night in the last 40 years, but popular nightclubs often have lines out the front.

I'm asking why it's popular, clever clogs.

''I'm having a very '90s day,'' said student Sian Haldane, 24, looking grungy dressed in a boater hat, a ''distressed'' floral shirt, black leggings over black shorts

leggings OVER shorts? wouldn't that be quite uncomfortable?

You have fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book, Max.
Leaving a queue outside your venue is a ploy designed to make passers-by wonder what is going on inside that is so popular, and (hopefully) sway them into entering rather than missing out.

Everything about that queue - not least its very existence - makes me not want to go anywhere near the Perseverance Hotel.

But you started a whole thread about it.
Why don't you marry it?

FWIW, many years ago the Perce was a great pub that had Saturday afternoon shows on (as did the Builders Arms) where you could see bands like X and White Cross for free.
On that score alone I refuse to set fire to it.

Hey, nobody's advocating arson.

I'm just genuinely curious how the fuck this anachronism came to be. It's like they've transplanted a Chapel Street pub, its crowd and its ethos, and plonked it down in the middle of Fitzroy.

Hahaha you sound surprised that the Chapel St ethos is now transplanted to Brunswick St.
Many Fitzroy business owners have been working hard to make this happen for years.

I guess I'm surprised at how blatant it's become.

Meh.
Don't be. Bad money always drives out good.

I noticed a similar queue outside the Royal Derby on Brunswick St on Thursday night. A Thursday night, ffs!!! There was really bad 90s-style techno pumping out of the windows.

I believe the final days of humanity are upon us.

OMG PLACES OFFERING POPULIST ENTERTAINMENT ARE MARKEDLY POPULAR.

I wonder who it is that ''decides'' that 90s are suddenly ''in'' anyway? I've never liked the 90s and I refuse to take part.
Brunswick St is a joke now, although we still have the Grace Darling etc. in Fitzroy, but it is as you say pretty much the new Chapel St.
I wonder how long before we have to travel to Thornbury or some god forsaken place for a night out.

how long before we have to travel to Thornbury or some god forsaken place for a night out.

That's been happening for years. Remember The Afterdark in Croxton? That was a genius bar. Now we've got Tago Mago, where you can see the likes of Kim Salmon play on a regular basis.

Fitzroy has held very little attraction for ages, apart from the Old Bar. Of course things are cyclical, and I'm sure new decent places will spring up again eventually.

Hey, Thornbury's not bad for a night out.

I've still got a few spots in Fitzroy that I love and go to regularly. One of them is directly opposite this queue.

Plus sometimes I wind up at the Old Bar, but don't hold that against me.

I've never liked the 90s and I refuse to take part.

i never liked the 80s, but a decade or so of 80s nostalgia has worn me down so much that i stopped giving a shit. for the best, i think.

I've never liked the 90s and I refuse to take part.
i never liked the 80s, but a decade or so of 80s nostalgia has worn me down so much that i stopped giving a shit. for the best, i think.

This is hilarious if only for the fact that it exactly echoes what we were saying about the 80s a decade ago. Oh, culture!

let's revisit this thread in a decade. meanwhile, i'm off to 90s techno night.

'''i never got over Fugazi, Shellac and Ricaine''

FTFY

didn't really need to put Ricaine, seeing as they are a fusion of the first two.

Once again: Bailterspace, 3Ds, HDU

I noticed a similar queue outside the Royal Derby on Brunswick St on Thursday night. A Thursday night, ffs!!! There was really bad 90s-style techno pumping out of the windows.

So that's where Muscles is playing these days?

''Occupy The Perseverance''

I'm still stuck in my own version of a '90s purgatory. It was a killer decade. I must admit I wanted to kill everyone in the mainstream and the mainstream/alternative, but good shit was to be had.

There is something seriously wrong when canoe music like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes are in the Top Five bands for dudes (men have feelings too y'know...and goldrush era beards).

I'm going dittohead all over this one.

dnzr said 1 hour ago:

didn't really need to put Ricaine, seeing as they are a fusion of the first two.

You've got me there... but what about Big'N? Dazzling Killmen?

20 Year-old Glassed in the Throat on Brunswick Street.

Anyone know where this was?

my guess is (in order of likeliness)

*bimbos
*the perc'
*first floor
*provincial

Investigators believe the Lower Plenty man was at a licensed premises on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, near the corner of Johnston Street, when an altercation took place involving three unknown males about 2.45am on Sunday.

and this:

http://twitter.com/#!/Cushla_Travers/status/178511640348733441/photo/1

looks like black pearl or thereabouts?

Can't fathom anyone getting glassed at Black Pearl...

possibly cape live, but as it said near in the 3aw report above i discounted it.

Outside the new donut shop? Souvlaki King?

neither of those are licensed.

and its on the east side of the street (due to the police tape you can see in photo)

The Perceverence has been accommodating large groups of pissed young persons for almost 20 years.

Nothing new here.

brunswick st now described as ''inner-suburban party strip''

Edward: Hello, hello. What's going on? What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here.

'Tubbs' Tattsyrup: Are you... local?

Edward: You people are all alike, You march in here, young! try and touch the local things. I suppose next you'll be spraying me with one of those cans of paint, smearing poor Tubbs here with excrement.

Edward: We don't bother the outside world, we don't want it bothering us.

Edward: This is a local shop. The strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways.

Tubbs: Edward, will more strangers come?
Edward: Calm yourself Tubbs. None shall come.

You kids stop tipping on the the 90s. It was a great decade. The clothes were pretty good - not everyone wore flannelette shirts you know.
And the music was killer - well that's how I remember it. And I was adultish through most of the 80s too.

Anyway Brunswick Street's been over for many many years. The only good thing there is the food at Babka.

The music was killer?