Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party
The Street Party is perhaps the best-known event in Edinburgh's Hogmanay Festival calendar. The New Year street party takes place the length of Princes Street, with live bands, dancing in the street, and street theatre troupes mingling with crowds.
The street party climaxes with the bells of Big Ben at midnight, and a dramatic fireworks display above Edinburgh Castle to herald in the New Year. This is followed by a joining of hands as the crowd sings Auld Lang Syne, a kissathon, and more partying into the wee wee hours both on the street and around the city.
The festivities get going when the stages and screens go live at 9pm. Access is by street party ticket and booze is permitted so long as it is not in glass containers. Free night buses are laid on for revellers.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party has been scaled back in recent years from 180,000/200,000 of the millennium party to around 100,000 and takes place within a smaller cordoned-off area.
This year's event has been reduced to 80,000 due to ongoing tram works.
The BBC will be webcasting the celebrations around the globe from 11.45pm to 00.45am on the 1st January (video on demand for 24 hours after that).
2009-2010 bands line-up
Madness headline the Concert in the Gardens with the Noisettes and Codeine Velvet Club supporting.
The Waverley Stage is headlined by the rabble rousing, Coventry band The Enemy supported by a line-up of young Scottish bands: the 5-piece Glasgow based Frightened Rabbit, Edinburgh band Stanley Odd and Edinburgh based 4-piece We Were Promised Jet Packs. The host is BBC Radio Scotland DJ Vic Galloway
The Mound Precinct Space sees the Cuban Brothers and Glitter Banditz with guest DJ The Great Calverto playing host.
The West End DJ Stage, introduced at last year's Edinburgh's Hogmanay, brings DJ sets from Scots DJ MYLO, Gary & Tom (Snow Patrol) and Richard Colburn (Belle & Sebastian).
Laser and light display
A laser and light display will take place the length of Princes Street between midnight and 1:00am on the first day of the new year.
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