Rock and Pop : Preview - Rachel Stamp, Blogger's Delight and Mitch Winehouse - More of the best New Year's Eve parties
Published: 29 December 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
There were too many great New Year parties to fit into the paper last week so here’s Part two of our guide – the best of the rest.
• FOR THE MTV GENERATION
Blogger’s Delight presents Video Kills the Radio Star. The Lock Tavern (Chalk Farm tube), 8pm-4am, £10 adv/with regular’s card or £15.
DJs – Casper C, Skull Juice, Stopmakingme, Arveene, The Beeny Royston Experience, Gino Silano, Miss Odd Kidd, NikNikNik – disco, house and party faves upstairs, pop downstairs, get nostalgic, think 1984 MTV launch, Michael Jackson, Madonna and dance your way through to the end of the noughties.
Come as your favourite tribute to the art of the music video – shouldn’t be too hard to find the garb across the road at Camden market.
• DIE-HARD GLAM PUNKS
Rachel Stamp + Conspirators + Spiderbaby + Et Tu Bruce + Deeds of the Nameless + Otherness. Monto Water Rats (King’s Cross tube), 6pm, £13.
Glam punks Rachel Stamp rarely get together to play live anymore so witness this one-off show, grab a free signed copy of their latest album (first 50 arrivals), get your eyeliner on and dress the part for what promises to be a raucous party.
• GARAGE DUBSTEP AND HIP-HOP
Reggae Roast with EL-B & MC Rolla, Channel One, Daddy Skitz, Moodie, Excel + more. The Big Chill House, (King’s Cross tube), 9pm-5am, £15 earlybird/ £20 adv.
Reggae Roast’s first ever NYE party. Room one is UK Garage/dubstep pioneer EL-B ft MC Roll and Channel One Sound System with Rastafarian chants from Mikey Dread. Room two is UK hip-hop legend Daddy Skitz’s party blend of hip-hop, drum and bass, dancehall and reggae.
• FOR THE MAD HATTERS
Sam and The Womp’s NYE Hat Party with Sam and The Womp live, Senor Migan, DJ Cous Cous, Aaron Audio and Bobby Gandolf. Camino (King’s Cross tube), 9pm-4am, £15 earlybird, £20 adv, £60 restaurant ticket.
High-energy Balkan, ska, dub, Latin and gypsy-dubstep with Sam’s six-piece band The Whompers. Wear your most extravagant hat – prizes for best.
• FOR THE CROONERS
Mitch Winehouse. The Pigalle Club (Piccadilly Circus), 7pm-late, dinner, admission and champagne £95, non-dining guests £25
Crooner/cabbie/celeb dad Mitch Winehouse hosts a classy evening of jazz and swing – Amy’s been known to join him but we hear she’s in Moscow.
• COOL AND CASH-STRAPPED
The Wheelbarrow (Mornington Crescent tube), open till late, free
Top tunes, nice faces and an extended late licence – and you don’t have to pay a penny to get in.