So if you’re tired of the stay-at-home-drinking-like-a-nana-or-a-scrooge parties for new years eve, perhaps it’s time to pop your head up out of the sandpit and see what’s going on around the place this year…
Of course there are the ubiquitous plethora of pub theme nights giving you an excuse to dress slutty; with the usual DJs playing tunes to shout over; as you get pissed and drown the last sorrows of the dying year: but we’ve done a bit of digging and have come up with 20 interesting options for jamming the new year home in 2009. There’s something here for old, young, shallow, deep and depraved, pick which one you are…
Love Like Violence @ Hyde Park Hotel
This year’s Love Like Violence lineup sees Schvendes and Eleventh He Reaches London headlining the event, with support from The Devil Rides Out, Project Mayhem, The Scotch of Saint James (formerly The Slim Pickins), Hooper’s Store, Pond, Genghis and These Ship Wrecks.
The Rosemount Hotel’s New Years Eve Fiesta is back! Wednesday, December 31 will see a killer line-up of Perth’s biggest and best for the ultimate NYE party for live music fans. End Of Fashion, Sugar Army, Red Jezebel, The Silents, Harlequin League and Boys Boys Boys.
Origin 08 @ Blue Steel Oval Origin returns to Perth this new years eve and will once again host the biggest Drum n Bass line-up of the year along with some of the most influential hip hop acts of all time The two biggest include Pendulum and Public Enemy. Click the link above if this is the kind of tea you’re chasing..
Six Degrees of Rock @ Rocket Room
There’s Rock and then there’s ROCK! This New Years Eve, Rocket Room has you covered with The Violet Flames, Cameo Thieves, Tracksuit, State Of Order, Stellaʼs Kitchen and Blackwater Station.
New Years Eve at the Norfolk Basement Norfolk Basement NYE party with Abbe May and the Rockin’ Pneumonia, Wolves At The Door, DJ Cooker and more…
Funk Club’s Countdown to NYE @ The Bakery featuring Giles Peterson The Funk Club and ARTRAGE are teaming up for a very special new years eve, with BBC’s legendary Gilles Peterson.
The Last Party On Earth @ Shape Official Origin Afterparty from 2am Featuring an all star local line-up over 2 rooms..
Back to the Future @ Amplifier Bar
It’s glitzy, it’s glitchy, it’s Pure Pop, Rock Royalty, Boys Boys Boys, Streetlight, Kill Teen Angst, Voltaire Twins, Petrosex, deathly disco and pure unabated hands in the air hedonism. And you can dress up.
Metal Meltdown to 2009 @ Charles Hotel Spend your New Years with Chaos and friends like Psychonaut, Pyromesh, Sins Of The Father, Lacrymae, Noctis and Hyte.
The Court Beach Party @ The Court Hotel
Get Leid at the Court. Play in the sand pit, Splash in the paddle pool, Ride the wild surfboard, Dunk the staff…
Star Party @ Indie Bar Get your arse into the Indie Bar for NYE to see Blue Shaddy and Lightning Jack and Toby.
Reggae New Year’s Eve party @ Clancy’s Fish Pub Canning Bridge
Beached As @ Breakers It’s gonna be hot, so get down to Scarborough and into Breakers Bar for your NYE2008.
The Vic Punk Nevermind the Bollocks, heres the Vic Punk NYE Flying High New Years Eve. It’s just an excuse to get dressed up punk in Subiaco.
Flying High @ Flying Scotsman Wow isn’t New Year’s Eve an expensive exercise! Not at the Flying High New Year’s Eve. This Hogmanay upstairs at the Scotto is free entry all night.
Born in the 80s @ Metros Fremantle The New Years Eve party for anyone born or growing up in the 80s
2009…Bring it On @ Rise are very few guarantees in life, however one thing is for certain…Rise will absolutely go off on New Years Eve.
Funky Town @ Burswood Theatre Mental as Anything, Daryl Braithwaite, Pseudo Echo and Wilbur Wilde.
New Years Eve @ Ambar Every year we look for something bigger and better to do, and failing actually watching the ball drop in Times Square a’la New York, you know nothing is quite going to top New Years Eve at Ambar with Lok and Marty McFly spinning the tunes.
And finally, for something different, and if you want a spur to get your new year off to an adventurous and sexy start, Rocky Horror Picture Show @ Voodoo Lounge Why not visit the Voodoo Lounge adaptation of the Rocky Horror Picture show. No Squares allowed -Any squares will be seduced.
