New Year’s Eve 2024 parties in London

Somerset House is ringing in 2025 with a bang. The Palladian masterpiece has partnered with queer pan-Asian performance collective The Bitten Peach for a new year celebration that will run all the way until 2am. As well as stonking views of London’s world-famous fireworks display from Somerset House’s Terrace, there’ll be after-dark ice skating in the building’s spectacular courtyard, DJ sets curated by NiNE8 Collective, a Whispering Angel lounge where you’ll find limited edition cocktails made with the wine of the moment which you can soak up with piping hot fondue served at The Chalet by Jimmy Garcia. On top of all that, the main event of the night (aside from the countdown to midnight) will be a feast of performances covering cabaret, burlesque and drag from The Bitten Peach, which will feature everything from fire breathing to belly dancing. It’s going to be one hell of a way to start the new year. 

Say auf wiedersehen to 2024 in style at central London’s new Bavarian pleasure palace Albert’s Schloss, which is celebrating its first New Year’s Eve with a time-hopping party featuring some of history’s biggest party animals, with a guestlist that includes everyone from Dionysus and Cleopatra! Tickets include a welcome glass of prosecco and canapés upon arrival between 7-8pm, and guests can expect kabaret and haus band performances from 7pm until the early hours, with free-flowing bier and plenty of schnacks available to keep you going, plus an indulgent three-course NYE offering from £100pp in the Cook Haus. Catch us dancing on das benches! 

Last year, Big Penny Social headed back to 1993 for their annual NYE bash. While they haven’t yet announced the theme for this year’s event, logic presumes 1994 is in with a decent shout – a year soundtracked by Britpop, grunge and rave. Sounds like a banging way to say goodbye to the last 12 months to us.

Start working on your stamina now – The Cause’s New Year’s Eve extravaganza spans 16 hours. The line-up is still under wraps at the time of writing but it promises to be fittingly huge, given the venue’s stellar rep for putting on some of the best parties in the capital.

Ring in 2024 with an unforgettable prehistoric celebration at the Natural History Museum’s silent disco. Get ready to throw some shapes alongside Hope the Blue Whale and take in some epic performers. There will be live music from roving brass band the Old Dirty Brasstards, wandering performers, a ceilidh and interactive sessions with Zoolab’s expert animal handlers. Plus, explore many of the galleries including the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre after dark. You’ll even get a complimentary beer, wine or soft drink. FYI: fancy dress is strongly encouraged. 

With panoramic views over the East End skyline, One Hundred Shoreditch’s rooftop bar and restaurant Kaso is a great place to catch the fireworks on New Year’s Eve. The understatedly chic hotel has teamed up with Soho-based record shop Phonica Records for its NYE bash this year, ensuring that guests will get to ring in 2025 to a masterfully-curated soundtrack of genre-spanning dance and electronica courtesy of the store’s friends and resident vinyl selectors, Make A Dance, Ariane V, Nick Williams and Luther Vine. Guests will be treated to an open bar for the duration of the party, with unlimited pours of house wine, prosecco, beer, and premium spirits & mixers until 1.30am. 

As ever, Fabric goes in big and heavy for New Year's Eve. Ripping up the Clerkenwell dance palace will be jazz-tinged house and techno outfit Chaos In The CBD, rising house star Gabrielle Kwarteng, breakbeat pusher Marie Montexier, house DJ Fenton Haslam, techno boundary-pushers Ben Klock and Tapefeed, and Afro-deep techno star MARRØN. A blissful, banging New Year's Eve for dance music fanatics.

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Newly opened ‘FLINTA-gay living room’ Goldie Saloon is going all out for its first ever New Year’s Eve, throwing an epic sapphic ‘house party’ in collaboration with sexy artisanal agave brand Madre Mezcal. Expect plenty of dykey debauchery, including party games – spin the bottle anyone? –DJs from 9pm and free samples of the bar’s new signature cocktail (a spicy, smoky mezcal and pineapple number) for early birds. The (optional) dress code is ‘indie sleaze chic’ and the bar is staying open til 2am for the occasion, with ticket proceeds going towards fitting out a swanky new kitchen that will open in the New Year. What better way to say goodbye to the great Lesbian Renaissance of 2024?!

Beefmince’s Clapham Grand parties are renowned for being riotous affairs, and this NYE spectacular should be no different. The line-up is yet to be revealed, but you can expect live DJs, gogo dancers and special guests on hand to help you usher in 2025 in style.

For a blast of nostalgia in Hackney’s sparkliest club, get your glad rags on and brace yourself to boogie in the new year with a night of ’80s bangers. Moth Club will be blaring everything from Whitney Houston to Bowie, Fleetwood Mac to The Cure: perfect if you’re after a singalong or want to get as far away from minimal techno as possible. 

Get ready to dance this NYE. At Cirque Du Soul’s biggest-ever event in the capital, Young Marco and Special Request will be taking over the decks and making sure the dancefloor keeps moving well beyond midnight. Be warned: although this party will be bumping until 4am, last entry is at 11pm, so plan accordingly.

Want to ring in 2025 in style? The Langham’s cocktail bar Artesian is throwing a shindig that should fit the bill. Its New Year’s Eve party promises ‘sophisticated cocktails’, free-flowing champagne, canapés and late night snacks. The whole thing will be soundtracked by DJs who’ll be trying to keep you on the dancefloor until well after the midnight bells toll.

Most pubs have a late licence on New Year’s Eve, but most pubs aren’t owned by pioneering east London nightclub The Cause and Hackney Wick venue All My Friends. The Peckham boozer will be keeping its roomy basement open until 4am for a night of big collabs, top selectors, dancing and booze aplenty. It’s also one of the cheapest parties in city with tickets at just £5.50. Good tunes, good booze, good times. 

DJ and producer Elkka is taking over Village Underground this NYE for a big party combining house, electronica and R&B. Special guests – who are yet to be announced – will be joining her on the bill, making this a New Year’s Eve to remember.

As you’d expect from the enduringly popular Kisstory brand, this NYE party is all about the  ‘best old skool & anthems’. DJs dropping crowd-pleasers on the night are under wraps right now, but expect big names from the R&B and garage world. 

If you used to spend New Year’s Eve at The Glory, The Divine is making sure you have plans for the big occasion. The new venue run by drag queens Jonny Woo and John Sizzle is throwing a celestial-themed party for its first NYE bash. Expect twerking, twirling drag performances and dancing until the small hours soundtracked by DJs including Princess Julia, Milk Shandy and Jeffrey Hinton. It’ll be one be sequin-studded, drag-fuelled, pop-tastic disco, until things get messy with a free vodka luge at midnight. 

Start the new year in the luxurious setting of Great Scotland Yard Hotel’s speakeasy-style cocktail bar Sibin. Sip sustainable cocktails until 2am soundtracked by a line-up of DJs. The Grade II-listed building was originally the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police and was taken over by the Ministry of Defence during both World Wars. This means it’s just down the road from Westminster so you can get a good view of London’s famous new year fireworks and hear the iconic bongs of Big Ben as midnight hits.

XOYO will be opening its doors on New Year’s Eve for one big all-night-long party to wave goodbye to 2024. Manchester’s Dansu Discs will be taking over the venue with a mix of the label’s most beloved acts and rising stars, including L.P. Rhythm, Harrison BDP, Charlotte Ord and more. Expect big beats and expertly curated vibes to get your 2025 underway in the best possible way.

Coq d’Argent’s New Year’s Eve bash is stuffed with goodness. Come for the six-course tasting menu that includes tasty French cuisine, like champignon sauvage, fletan and petits fours, stay for the private fireworks display and live music and dancing. If you want to join the party but can’t justify £175 for a big dinner, the restaurant is doing £50 bar tickets so you can still be part of the fun but not break the bank.

For a New Year’s Eve shindig with a retro flavour, head to Larry’s Bar, the drinking den in the brick-walled vaults under National Portrait Gallery, where the walls are decorated with portraits of theatre legends from days gone by. The bar will be serving up classic cocktails while jazz duo Kitty La Roar and Nick Shankland supply live music, before a DJ and live entertainment takes you through to midnight. Mid-century glamour is encouraged, and your £120 ticket is redeemable against spend on the evening and includes a complimentary glass of champers on arrival, plus one for a toast at midnight. 

Sweet, kitsch and full of surprises – just like the ice cream sundae – Knickerbocker is a queer dance party not to be missed. It’s last New Year’s bash had a 400-person waiting list, so this year it’s taking over two venues to avoid disappointment. To see you into 2025 in style it has another stonking line-up of DJs and performers, including Jonjo Jury, Themenwhofell2earth, Le Puf, Alex Lawless, Alex Rata and Aaron Zimbra. A mega session going til 5am on NYD, it’s also a chance to say a proper goodbye to the current iteration of Hackney Wick’s much-loved Yard Theatre before it gets demolished in the spring ahead of the creation of a purpose built venue opening in 2026. 

Want to start 2025 with your ears pumping with high-energy, club-ready electronic music with a raw, underground edge? DJ Mall Grab’s label Looking for Trouble has just the New Year’s event for you. It’s taking over fold with a line-up of selectors playing techno, house, breakbeat and rave, all with a darker, grittier sound that’ll get you revved up and ready for the new year. Expect punchy beats from Mall Grab themselves, as well as a host of other special guests spinning tracks until 6am. 

If your perfect NYE involves a sit-down dinner and a banging soundtrack, look no further than Claro at St James’s. The Eastern Mediterranean restaurant will be serving up some of its signature dishes, including winter squash steak and wild mushroom gnocchi, but will also have a DJ on hand to keep the atmosphere high throughout the night.

Self-christened ‘London’s favourite dyke nightclub’, Carabiner is putting on a big queer knees up to bring in the new year. Across three rooms in Colours Hoxton, there’ll be DJ sets from the likes of Eve Landin playing “gay pop, slutty bangers and R&B”, a temporary tattoo parlour, a glitter station and other surprises throughout the night. Dress to impress – the dress code is ‘diamond encrusted cvnt’, but most importantly the whole idea behind the shindig is to meet new people – this is one party where it’s cool to come on your own. 

For a funk-tastic start to 2025, head to King’s Cross for NYE party at Lafayette London hosted by disco-loving clubnight Fever 105. Expect to hear plenty of funk, soul and disco bangers from the seventies and eighties as French DJ and producer Dimitri From Paris, genre-hopping veteran Bill Brewster and vinyl selector Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy spin tunes until 5am. There’ll be three different rooms to check out, alongside 5 bars, with Cody Currie, Poly-Ritmo, Theon Bower and Shaka Loves You also on the line-up. Super early bird tickets sold out in a flash, so be sure to keep an eye out for when more go on sale!