In Scotland we call New Year’s “Hogmanay” and it is the occasion for the world’s biggest annual party. If you sober up before the 2nd, you’re doing it wrong. I’d like you all to join me in hoisting a glass or two of “the cratur” – scotch to you – as we toast the new year of 2013 and kick of an Agonist musical party. You know the drill – post a link to your YouTube of your favorite new Year’s party music and your drunken editors will try to imbed the video without crashing the whole site.
And now let’s get this party started. Something bittersweet and personal…
…and a footstomper from the vaults.
The traditional Scottish Hogmanay toast fits the Agonist readership well. “Here’s tae us, wha’s like us? Damn few, and they’re a’ deid!”
Happy New Year, folks.
Lot of Scots music but not all for the new year, so found this poem instead. (Amazing no one has written music for it yet. Maybe I will).
Louis MacNeice reading Bagpipe Music.
Has a couple of my of my favorite lines:
Oh it doesn’t have to be Scottish – just good New Year’s party music. Anything that tickles your fancy
And Ireland is just a stone’s throw from Scotland, as they’ve proved by throwing stones at each other for centuries.
Finnegan’s Wake is in the spirit of the day.
Classic acid house:
Also:
Goin’ back to Chicago:
Love the breakdown on this classic:
303 to infinity:
Off to the Towne Crier Cafe tonight, celebrating to the blues guitar of Debbie Davies plus the Chris O’Leary band.
Good food, good friends, good music, good bourbon – what more could anyone ask for?
Have a ball, y’all. Talk to you next year.
DJ Colette @ Beatport Live:
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Old skool.
Old School indeed…New Years Eve 1980….in a club standing between speakers taller than me and this coming out at 100-plus-god -only-knows decibels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy6EzdGh17M
New Years Eve 1966 at The Electric Circus, NYC…these guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBwBct0_5U
wow, great stuff, Doug!
More Ghosts of New Years’ Past: Allentown, PA, 1973:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4
[Ed: I randomly heard this today on the radio!]
And West Palm Beach, FL in 1989: The Doctor…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-W-a7ZLpFs
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East 12/31/69
Not his greatest playing ,but hey, the helicopters are already going overhead in Manhattan.
A guid New Year tae yin an a’!