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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tess Reidy

‘Clubbing just isn’t cool’: UK’s New Year’s Eve revellers switch to warehouse or home parties

Overmono, with a musician with short hair, his arm in the air, next to a musician in a baseball cap at a mix deck at the Roundhouse in London with two screens behind them
Overmono at London’s Roundhouse in October. Photograph: Sonja Horsman/the Guardian

Welsh dance duo Overmono have had about as good a year as an underground rave act could hope for. There were sold-out headline shows, a debut album in the charts, a busy festival season playing peak slots, and to top it all off, three shows over the new year period. So where can you catch one of the hottest tickets in the UK dance-music market right now? Australia.

It’s not just Overmono. Many big artists are gigging abroad this new year. It used to be that every UK club would have an end-of-year party. DJs would play two or three shows on the night.

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