Since New Year’s Eve is arguably the biggest party night of the year, everyone from Baby New Year to Father Time is throwing a blowout shindig. There’s just a dizzying array of options for kissing 2009 goodbye. To help narrow down your choices, here’s a handy list of some of the more notable New Year’s Eve parties in the Lawrence and Kansas City area.
Sellout.
New Year’s at The Granada with Sellout! — 8 p.m. at Granada
Lawrence’s premier cover band, Sellout! brings the cheese to the party in full costume, playing your favorite hits from the past four decades. Faux Gene Simmons and fake Marilyn Monroe help you dance in the New Year along with a balloon drop, party favors, and complimentary champagne. Check out our podcast interview with the band. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Win tickets!
Split Lip Rayfield (l to r) is Wayne Gottstine, Jeff Eaton, and Eric Mardis
Split Lip Rayfield and Mountain Sprout — 7 p.m. at The Bottleneck
Lawrence bluegrass luminaries Split Lip Rayfield will help New Year’s revelers hoedown as they countdown with blazing-fast banjo and mandolin licks balanced by high-lonesome ballads and a healthy sense of humor. Split Lip will be joined by psychobilly twangers out of Arkansas, Mountain Sprout. $15 advance, $20 day of show. Win tickets!
New Years Eve with Fast Johnny Ricker — 7 p.m. at Gaslight Tavern
Fast Johnny Ricker is a Kansas City guitar virtuoso who’s played with everyone from Bo Diddley to The Byrds. He’ll be popping your ears with his psychedelic blues rock as you’re popping the corks off the free champagne. $20 advance, $25 day of show.
Approach, a.k.a. Sean Hunt.
Approach / Steddy P / Royce Diamond / Soul Servers / Greg Enemy / Atila / Milkdrop — 10 p.m. at Jackpot Music Hall
It’s a big, sexy night of progressive hip-hop headlined by Lawrence-bred MC Approach and Kansas City’s Steddy P. As the ball drops in Times Square, the beat drops in Lawrence. $10 for 18-21, $8 for 21+.
New Years Eve Blowout with Stackswell and BSears and friends, 10 p.m., Eighth Street Tap Room
Taproom regulars Stackswell and BSears spin their sometimes obscure but always danceable vinyl, featuring everything from Motown to Merengue in their DJ set. $5 day of show.
Arthur Dodge (left) and Danny Pound
Arthur Dodge & the Horsefeathers / Danny Pound Band / The French Leaves, 10 p.m., Louise's Downtown
The Arthur Dodge Boys ring in the new year with new material of 2009 year, peppered with some oldies from the Horsefeather catalog. A new year begins, champagne flows, then Dodge and band saunter through some relics of rock-and-roll's past. Lawrence's Danny Pound and The French Leaves open. $7 day of show.
Hearts of Darkness / Chickenhoof — 9:30 p.m. at Davey’s Uptown
The big band funk of Kansas City afro-beat swingers Hearts of Darkness herald the New Year with a full horn section. $15 advance, $20 day of show.
Majestics Rhythm Revue.
Majestics Rhythm Revue — 10 p.m. at Jazzhaus
Blues-rock homeboys Majestics Rhythm Revue get you drunk on funk (and probably some bubbly) while performing covers and originals. $8.
BorderLine Country New Years Eve Dance — 7 p.m. at Eagles Lodge
Boot scootin’ country tunes, along with some rock and swing, help you line dance into the New Year. $5.
Kelley Hunt.
Kelley Hunt — 9 p.m. at Liberty Hall
Lawrence’s very own Kelley Hunt, soulful crooner of bluesy Americana roots, holds court at Liberty Hall. $30.50 reserved floor tables, $20.50 general admission, $35.50/$25.50 day of show.
New Year's Eve Party at the Eldridge — 9 p.m. at the Eldridge
This party in the Eldridge's Big 6 Room features R&B tunes by Louis Cowdrey and Bugaloo Tramps from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Doors open at 9 p.m. Cash only bar and hors d'oeuvres. $20 cover includes champagne toast.
Tommy Ferrari and the Future Motor Machines are (L to R): Nate "Daniel Poinsettia" Burian, Mike "Rory Borealis" Teeter, Austin "Selch O'Cannon" Doores, Brody "Ernie Early" Doores, and Kyle "Tommy Ferrari" Jones.
Tommy Ferrari & The Future Motor Machines / Mansion — 10 p.m. at The Replay Lounge
The Replay invites you to “rock 2009 goodbye” with the prog-metal of Mansion and the glam-punk of Tommy Ferrari. $2 day of show.
New Year's Party at The Cave — 7 p.m. at The Cave
Optional pre-book via email at cavenewyears@live.com. $40 cover includes: DJ, dancing, pizza buffet (8-10:30 p.m.), giveaways and champagne toast. Take a look inside The Cave in our preview of the new night club.
Wayne the Train Hancock / Phantom of the Opry / The Camptown Ladies — 7 p.m. at Knuckleheads
The self-proclaimed “Undisputed King of Juke Joint Swing,” Wayne “The Train” Hancock is a grizzled Texan who channels Hank Williams Sr. as he slings his boozy brand of honky-tonk boogie. Party favors and buffet included. $55 for dinner/show/party favors/buffet, $35 for show/party favors/buffet. Tickets must be purchased before Tuesday, Dec. 29.
Ultimate Fakebook is (L to R) Bill McShane, Nick Colby and Eric Melin
Ultimate Fakebook / Hammerlord / Pet Comfort / Soft Reeds — 8 p.m. at Riot Room
Kansas City pop-punks Ultimate Fakebook — recently reunited and ready to riff — team up with Lawrence metal-smiths Hammerlord—face-melters of brutal proportions — to ring in a very noisy New Year. After party includes air guitar competition and DJ Stevie Cruz. $15 advance, $20 day of show.
KC-area ska band, Sex Police.
Sex Police — 10 p.m. at Record Bar
The Sex Police will arrest you with their ska and throw you in reggae jail. A full brass section will have you skankin’ in the New Year. $10 advance and day of show.
New Years Eve Bash — 8 p.m. at Uptown Theater
The Uptown Theater turns into a multi-tiered New Year’s Eve entertainment compound with six different rooms of bands, DJs, buffets and open bars. $80 V.I.P. pass, $40 “not so” V.I.P. pass.
White Trash Party—7 p.m. at The Sandbar
The Sandbar invites you to bring a mullet, tank top, and Daisy Dukes to their white trash New Year's Party. You'll be able to bob for cheap beer and drink some down home trashcan juice. The cover charge includes snacks, party favors, midnight champagne toast, and prizes for best costumes. $10 day of party.
Comments
monkey_c 3 years, 4 months ago
Good times!
mhh1955 3 years, 4 months ago
For those of us that can remember all the way back to the 1999 - 2000 debate....
January 1, 2001 was the start of the new millenium - not 1/1/00. That means that there is still another year left before the end of the 1st decade of the 21st Century.
There, I said it - now back to watching more "Big Bang Theory".
doubledogleg 3 years, 4 months ago
don't forget about Rural Route 4 @ Slow Ride
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