Action Pack: Rockin' New Year’s Eve Video Dance Party

Okay, so here's the deal: after years of hosting New Year's Eve parties at the Highball or various Alamo Drafthouse theaters, the closing of the Highball this year and the existence of the awesome Craig Ries meant that this was the first NYE in a long time where I didn't have to go to one of our venues and work a party. So I started looking at other ways I could spend my New Year's Eve both in Austin and around the country, and I quickly realized that every other NYE party in the world is terrible.… Show more

The vast majority of parties are going to be both too expensive and too crowded with douchebags, and the other anti-douche parties will be feeling so smug about the lack of douchebags on their dancefloor that they'll forget to let their DJs play the best music of 2012. I realize this is a purely subjective reality, but if you can't lose yourself in enjoyment over dancing to Gangnam Style one last time on New Year's Eve the year that the song came out, why bother going out and celebrating the arrival of 2013 with strangers at all?

After looking at all of the other party options for the night on every other website, Caitlin and I thought, "Hey, wait a minute - we should just get some tickets to our NYE Sing-Along and enjoy the show even though we don't have to host!" Unfortunately, that show was completely sold out by the time we realized how incredibly amazing it was.

So then we thought, "Okay, well what if we put together a music video dance party like we would at the Highball? It wouldn't be a Sing-Along, and we wouldn't be able to have champagne toasts and all of that extra fun stuff, but it would still be a really f~~king great party..." And we started looking at all the various venues we could use, but kept coming back to the fact that the Ritz is just perfect. Then we realized that while the big theater was holding the main party we put together there was still another theater at the Ritz, and even though the later start time would mean we had to make a different show altogether, we could still make that one a ton of fun... and so that's what we decided to do!

But again, it's super important that you realize a couple of things:

1) This is not a Sing-Along!

2) We kind of went crazy with the setlist for this show. Rather than just using the most popular songs of the year, we went back and forth and fought over what our favorite songs of the year were. And I put in a LOT of Calvin Harris. Like, seriously... A LOT. And then we also mixed in some songs from 2011 and before that we haven't grown tired of yet, because... we could.

If you're cool with that, and if you don't mind having a little bit of Bieber mixed in with your Deadmau5, then I know for a fact that there is no better place you could possibly ring in 2013 than with us. But if you want to have the maximum number of douchebags around you that's possible (and trust me, I totally understand that as a one night a year plan for NYE), then you may want to go somewhere else where you can get some super expensive bottle service. Our bottles will be regularly priced, and I will be drinking from one when the Calvin Harris / Tinie Tempah song comes on. (Henri Mazza)

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