From family-friendly discos and sky-splitting fireworks to live funk orchestras and brooding basslines in Cheetham Hill warehouses, Manchester’s selection of one-off New Year’s Eve events allows everybody to welcome 2025 in their own way.
Here are some of the best things to do around the city this NYE.
Featuring a jaw-dropping line up of the decade’s biggest DJs and live acts, 90s Baby returns to Albert Hall for another reminiscent rave to ring in 2025, this time bringing a host of Clubland legends from the golden age of dance euphoria, with sets from from Ultrabeat, N-Trance, Love Inc and even The Blackout Crew.
If you’ve already got plans for the evening or fancy a fresh face for the first morning of 2025, Day Fever returns to New Century with the country’s biggest daytime disco from 3pm.
You can even request a song ahead of the event HERE.
Returning for another instalment as the North’s biggest New Year’s Eve event, WHP’s monstrous end-of-year Defected party features another world-famous lineup, including a DJ set from Groove Armada, Low Steppa, Darius Syrossian, Barbara Tucker, Olive F and more, alongside an array of eclectic DJ talent across three stages to accommodate every taste within a 10,000-strong crowd.
Promising unrivalled craic and cask upon cask of their famously flawless Guinness pours, Manchester’s favourite Irish bar invites visitors to see out the year with a night of unbridled cheer, live music and foot-stomping fun.
Bringing the glitzy metropolitan spirit of the Times Square Ball Drop to Deansgate, Manahatta hosts a lavish night of classically Instagrammable frivolity, with cocktails, champagne, floor-filling tunes and a dress-to-impress mandate from 9pm until the early hours.
With the best of UK Garage and jungle pounding throughout four cavernous yet intimate rooms, HIDDEN returns for New Year’s Eve with another dark, high-energy party at their beloved DownTex Mill warehouse space in Cheetham Hill.
Headliners include Conducta, Chloe Robinson, Ghoulish and Holly Lester.
Book tickets below.
Back for another instalment of Manchester’s biggest city centre NYE spectacular, Freight Island has unveiled an action-packed programme for Tue 31 Dec, with immersive light trails, fireworks extravaganzas and family-friendly parties.
In Mayfield Park, the festive Twilight Trail hosts its grand finale with a spectacular twelve-minute fireworks display, while guests can dance along the route with musical curation from La Discotheque and special guest Craig Charles.
From 8pm, the Little Disco takes over the platform for an all-ages bash with irresistible electronic tunes from Girls of the Internet and supporting acts including Mix-Stress and Nicola Bear.
Click HERE for tickets to the Little Disco (standing tickets free), and grab your spot for the Fireworks Extravaganza below.
Led by three live sets of soulful bangers from the inimitable house band and timeless grooves from an unmissable DJ lineup, The Blues Kitchen hosts an old school New Year’s bash with sumptuous burgers, streams of bourbon and an extensive selection of cocktails.
You can book a dining table at 9pm and keep it for the night, or grab one before 7pm for free and stick around for the party.
This New Year’s Eve at Diecast, NYE BANG! transforms their two dynamic spaces into ‘electrifying hubs of celebration’, promising an unforgettable all-night celebration featuring breathtaking dance performances, live music and an inclusive atmosphere.
In avant-garde rave room Club Leno, music and spectacle collide with deep techno and disco rhythms bringing the party to life as aerial acrobats and vertical staging offer an immersive escape into realms of uninhibited joy.
The Beer Hall, meanwhile, returns to festive tradition with a vibrant and unpretentious blow-out including interactive games, parades and ‘Carry On Carols’, backed by a ten-piece band.
Find out more below.
Over on Irk Street, the team at Fairfield Social Club are hosting a double-bill Beer Bash and a Bottomless Board Game Brunch to close out 2024.
Featuring twenty-five craft beers, sumptuous street food and hours of communal merriment, Fairfield Social’s Club becomes a one-off NYE bierkeller from 11am-4pm and 5pm-1opm, guaranteeing the perfect pre-party session before heading elsewhere for the countdown. Book your tickets for just £5 HERE.
In The Shed, the FSC Bottomless Brunch offers a nominally laid-back afternoon of boozing and board games in collaboration with Dungeons & Flagons. Guests can enjoy four hours of access to over two-hundred party-themed games, with ninety minutes of bottomless drinks and freshly cooked Mediterranean street food.
Book your tickets below.
Ramona transforms into a pulsating 360-degree dance party for New Year, combining live percussion, guest DJs, and immersive decor for a night of ‘non-stop energy’.
With a stellar musical lineup including @alps_2, @joerochemusic, and @moodymanc_, Dance Into The Future promises to keep the dancefloor alive into midnight and beyond.
Just next door, The Firehouse’s own makeover sees the space become a Surrealist Ball filled with runway debauchery, bold performances, and a soundtrack of disco, house, and timeless party anthems. Promising Gaga-inspired glamour, the night unites art and high-energy revelry.
Over in the Northern Quarter, Wilson’s Social will have live DJs spinning the very best in Hip Hop, with an era-jumping playlist journeying through the 90s, 00s, 10s.
Entry is free and there’ll be Happy Hour drink offers all night.
Northern Quarter institution Night & Day combines two of its most popular club nights, Soul Glow and Ready for the Floor, for a back-to-back party filled with six hours worth of indie, disco, soul and alternative right through until 4am.
- Words:
- Wolf McFarlane
- Published on:
- Mon 23 Dec 2024
On Sun 31 Dec, The Bridgewater Hall invites music-lovers around the region to see out 2024 with Let’s Groove, a triumphant evening of stone-cold classic hits, iconic tunes and TV themes with an LED dancefloor and DJ Wayne on the decks, as visitors and musicians alike can ring in the new year to the sounds of David Bowie, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie and many others.
Afterwards, guests can enjoy a special gala concert lead by The Bridgewater Hall Concert Orchestra.