Pop Up Party New Year's Eve

Photo: Graeme Park / Credit: Cabaret Voltaire

Nottingham's Pop Up Party crew have been quietly making a name for themselves throughout the year, bringing the likes of Todd Terry, Joey Negro and Kenny Dope to Nottingham's superb Riverbank Bar & Kitchen venue. You'll be able to gather then that Pop Up Party know a thing or two about their house music, which is cemented with their New Year's Eve line up.

Whilst their predilection in the past has been of US focus, their end of year blowout sees them welcome on the UK's most respected jocks, someone who has there at the very start of house music's introduction to the country. That man is Graeme Park.

As luck would have it, Park's roots are based firmly in Nottingham, where he began working at record shop Selectadisc in the early eighties, right around the time that house music was starting to make its way across the pond. As one of the first authorities on house music, word soon filtered through to Mike Pickering, who asked Park to stand in for him at his Hacienda residency during the late eighties. The rest, as they say, is history.

Now in his 30th year in the business, Graeme is a true icon in house music history and essentially, he's the exact guy you want sound tracking the break of the new year (hear why in his radio show above).

He will be joined by eight piece soul and funk band Funkified and Pop Up resident Ian Newton for a fitting to end to a superb year from the Pop Up Party massive. Get your tickets here.

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