There’s not a night with a bigger demand for partying throughout the year, either in Barcelona or in any other city on the planet. We haven’t yet met a single person who chooses to stay at home on New Year’s Eve. There is no option: Barcelona opens the doors of all its clubs. What are you looking for in New Year’s Eve? Commercial music, reggaeton, hip-hop, alternative electronic music? Save this article in your favourites list and update it weekly, here we’ll keep you posted about everything taking place in Barcelona on the most important night of the year. We start with three main categories.
Special Underground Parties
Many of the main promoters and organizers of parties in Barcelona’s underground scene take advantage of New Year’s Eve to get special locations and organize parties with extended timetables. Here’s a review of all this kind of parties happening this year.
Adriana López and more @ Astra Space Travel (Secret Warehouse)
Colombian Adriana Lopez and her industrial sound is leading the lineup, but it’s only part of all what Astra Space Travel has prepared for this New Year’s Eve. A secret industrial warehouse will host more than 12 hours of techno music (from midnight to noon) on a single stage and in an intimate environment marked by freedom of action and thought. Ideal for ravers from anywhere in the world.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Secret Location
Lineup: Adriana López, Neiland, Killin’s Ürcos, MEN, Audiolux, Betts, Lowsystem, Mario Picosso, Guim Lebowski, NICO, Dhanimal, Dario Duegra and Eric Fetcher (live)
Sergio Moreira (live), Rick Maia, Audio-In and more @ Checkpoint (Secret Location)
One more year, Checkpoint appears in a secret location to dance on New Year’s Eve to the rhythm of the best microhouse and groovy house albums in the city. Their party will also last 12 hours, although in this case it will be from 6 pm to 6 am, including, therefore, dinner and Las Campanadas time.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Secret Location
Lineup: Sergio Moreira (live), Cecilio, Audri, Barson (Baraso & Sonodab), Omar, Anah, Audio-In, Rick Maia, Crave::, Pekkuliar, Christian Arcila and Sebastian Poblete
Secret Line-up @ Planetaria (Secret Location)
Another of the city’s most underground promoters, Planetaria, will once again bring together fans of its sound, dub, micro, trance and old-school, mostly on vinyl, in an industrial building that will remain open from midnight until after 10 or even 11 in the morning.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Secret Location
Lineup: TBA
Secret Line-up @ New Year’s Day (Luxury Villa)
If you’re looking for a plan that gets you dancing on January 1st, this may be one of the best options (if not the best). The Luxury Villa, located in the upper area of Barcelona, will dance to house music on three floors and a spectacular terrace overlooking the entire city. It will take place from 10am to 6pm. Dancing when you wake up… or not going to sleep? That’s up to the consumer…
When: Wednesday, January 1st
Where: Luxury Villa
Lineup: TBA
Laurent Garnier, Joseph Capriati and more @ Rowsattacks NYD (elrow)
As has become a tradition, elrow opens its doors on the 1st of January to dance under the sun. It will be from 11am to 11pm with the Neapolitan Joseph Capriati and the Parisian Laurent Garnier leading the way. With them, all the residents of the house.
When: Wednesday, January 1st
Where: elrow
Lineup: Laurent Garnier, Joseph Capriati, De la Swing, Marc Maya, Tini Gessler, Eddy M, Bastian Bux, Mario Biani, Viviana Casanova, Ion Pananides, Alex Pott, Baum and Julius
Underground Club Parties
Several of the best clubs in Barcelona also embrace underground sounds on New Year’s Eve. Here’s a look at what we’ll have in some of the best venues in the city.
Marco Carola and more @ Sight (Pacha Barcelona)
Be aware that this is a day before New Year’s Eve! Pacha couldn’t wait until the night of the 31st and, on the 30th, they’ll be dancing techno music with the Italian Marco Carola and his famous groovie sound that has gone around the world with MusicOn.
When: Monday, December 30th
Where: Pacha Barcelona
Lineup: Marco Carola, Manu Gonzalez and Steve Bimbelan
Paco Osuna and more @ INPUT High Fidelity Dance Club
INPUT couldn’t be missing from the New Year’s Eve map. The best sound system in Barcelona will close the year with the minimalist house sound of Barcelona’s Paco Osuna, Mindshake’s boss and living legend of modern Spanish clubbing.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: INPUT High Fidelity Dance Club
Lineup: Paco Osuna, Hitch and The Deals
Roy Rosenfeld and more @ NOM (Sala Bikini)
NOM continues to demonstrate that ethnic music has a space in Barcelona. The shamanic-spirited party also meets its New Year’s Eve date at its usual home, Sala Bikini. For the occasion, it will have the legend Roy Rosenfeld as the special guest.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Sala Bikini
Lineup: Roy Rosenfeld, Nick Varon, Aracil and Amadori b2b Gespona
Pawsa and more @ City Hall
Pawsa has been one of the revolutions of the year in the European tech scene. If your genre is tech-house, and if your sound is groove, you won’t find a better way to close the year.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: City Hall
Lineup: Pawsa and Fer BR
Raxon and more @ Locked x INPUT (Secret Location)
Locked (a party organiser focused on the most melodic areas of electronic music) and INPUT join forces in a club with a secret address to dance to the rhythm of the Egyptian Raxon (regular of labels like Ellum, home of Maceo Plex) and other regulars of Locked parties.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Secret Location
Lineup: Raxon, Gerard Bauza b2b Pulp and Jairo Uría
Gus Van Sound and more @ Moog
Moog bids farewell to 2019 as a family, with three of its residents, three of those responsible for making this one of the most infallible clubs in the whole city of Barcelona. Moog will dance until 6 am with Gus Van Sound, Ruben Seoane and 6TMA.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Moog
Lineup: Gus Van Sound, Ruben Seoane and 6TMA
Marwan Sabb and more @ FACT x Melting Pot (Ethniko)
Another option to give yourself over to the more contemporary tech sounds is that proposed by FACT and Melting Pot. The promoters join forces to take over the cosy Ethniko and make Barcelona dance in a magical space until 7 am… and who knows if more.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Ethniko
Lineup: Marwan Sabb, Kid Moss and Max Haas
Binh, Onur Ozer and more @ Loud-Contact (The Garage of The Bass Valley)
Loud-Contact’s team has also taken over one of the most underground spaces in the city, The Garage of The Bass Valley, to organize a 12-hour party (from 1am to 1pm) with some of the best diggers of the micro movement and collectors of house and breakbeat rarities: the Turkish Onur Ozer and the German Binh will be accompanied by Vera and Lumiere.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: The Garage of The Bass Valley
Lineup: Onur Ozer, Binh, Vera and Lumiere
Marco Faraone (all night long) @ Sight (Pacha Barcelona)
If Pacha was warming up engines on the 30th, it is also delivered to the best electronic music of the moment on the night of January 1st, for those who still want more. On this occasion, it will be another Italian, Marco Faraone, who will be in charge of keeping the public in the air with his techno sound, usual from labels like Drumcode. And he will do it all night long, from 11:30 pm.
When: Wednesday, January 1st
Where: Pacha Barcelona
Lineup: Marco Faraone
Mainstream Parties
The other clubs in the city are devoted to much more commercial and well-known sounds. This is what Barcelona offers you for New Year’s Eve if you are looking for Latin music, commercial hits or urban proposals.
New Year’s Eve @ Pacha Barcelona
Hip-hop, r&b and big hits of the most commercial house music. That’s what will be played from midnight to almost 7 am in Pacha, undoubtedly a reference of the night in Barcelona.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Pacha Barcelona
Lineup: Marshall Night and Alberto Herrera
New Year’s Eve @ Sutton Barcelona
One of the clubs with more history in the upper area of Barcelona dresses up to welcome the new decade. The best commercial, house and dance music will be playing until 6:30 am at Sutton Barcelona.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Sutton Barcelona
Lineup: Gerard Roig and Xavi Ques
New Year’s Eve @ Opium Barcelona
Another historic of Barcelona’s Olympic Port will also indulge in the urban rhythms of the best hip-hop and r&b to celebrate New Year’s Eve until 7 am.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Opium Barcelona
Lineup: TBA
Las Campanadas & New Year’s Eve @ Shôko Barcelona
Shôko, another of the most important clubs in the Olympic Port, offers a special experience. The club will open its doors at 10:30 pm and will welcome you with a glass of cava and the 12 grapes to celebrate the 12 “campanadas” and the entrance to the new decade in style. Then, the party will continue until 6 am.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Shôko Barcelona
Lineup: TBA
New Year’s Eve @ Jamboree
Jamboree continues with its usual programme and devotes its main hall to hip-hop, r&b and dancehall music, while the secondary hall will be devoted to world music and hits.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Jamboree
Lineup: Yoda, DJ Eley, Majestyk and HAL9000
New Year’s Eve @ Pacha-Chá (Club Astoria)
The famous Pacha Barcelona party for Latin and urban rhythms (mainly trap and reggaeton) moves on New Year’s Eve to one of the oldest, most beautiful and special clubs in the upper area: Club Astoria.
When: Tuesday, December 31st
Where: Club Astoria
Lineup: TBA
(Cover Image: © Mario G. García)
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