Vanilla Ice, Coolio and Salt N Pepa for Bristol show

Vanilla Ice, Coolio and Salt N Pepa for Bristol show

Posted on: 27 Jul 2017

They will appear at Motion on the 5th October for the Bristol leg of the ‘I Love The 90s’ tour. Young MC, Color Me Badd and Tone-Loc will also appear.

 

***GET YOUR TICKETS HERE***

Vanilla Ice

The 1990s was a decade responsible for immeasurable input into today’s cultural capital. Giving birth to the illegal rave, the proliferation of the World Wide Web and the Nokia 3310, and, musically, acid house, Britpop, lad rock, trip hop, grunge, girl power and neo soul, the 10-year stint is justifiably the subject of myriad targeted nostalgia trips.

 

The latest of these elegiac offerings comes in the form of the subtly-named ‘I Love The 90s’ tour, a series of dates at the country’s largest arenas performed by some of the most epoch-defining flashes in the pan from hip-hop and r&b.

 

Headlining the venture is the unashamed one-hit-wonder Vanilla Ice, who is still seemingly carving out a living on the back of the garish piece of novelty rap that is ‘Ice Ice Baby’.

Salt N Pepa

Injecting slightly more savoury credibility into proceedings are Salt-n-Pepa, the female hip hop duo who managed to put out a number of stone-cold hits whilst at the top of their game in the mid-90s. ‘Push It’, ‘Shoop’, ‘Whatta Man’ and ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ all contribute to the group’s reasonably impressive legacy.

 

The rest of the tour’s contingent fall into the same OHW category, with Young MC of ‘Bust A Move’ fame, Coolio and his ‘Gangster’s Paradise’, Color Me Badd and Tone-Loc all joining Vanilla and Salt-n-Peppa on the road, where they will play to arenas up and down the country.

 

Though Bristol continues to wait on a venue of ‘arena’ status, the city has not been shunned by the tour’s organisers, who have penned in a date at Motion on the 5th October.

 

The ‘I Love The 90s’ tour will take over Motion on the 5th October. Tickets are available here.


Article by:

Sam Mason-Jones

An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.