New Year’s Eve is the one night every band wants on the calendar, and this year ours is at Celtic Manor for the Masquerade Ball. After nine Black Tie nights in the Caernarfon Ballroom through November and December, we get to close the season out the best way there is - playing midnight in at the resort.
The Masquerade Ball
The theme is in the name: black tie and masks. It’s the biggest party night of the year at the resort, and the room is built for it - drinks, dinner, then the floor opens up and stays busy right through to the countdown. A masquerade dress code does something to a crowd. People commit to the night the moment they put a mask on.
Our Set on the Night
NYE is a long one, and we pace it for that. We play rolling sets - mashups, medleys and seamless transitions - so the energy builds rather than stops and starts, and we time the room to peak as midnight lands. There’s no better feeling in this job than counting a room down to a new year and dropping straight into the first song of it.
As with the Black Tie nights, every player is on in-ear monitors and we run separate monitor and front-of-house desks. For a room this size and a night this big, that’s what keeps the mix clean and the volume where it should be.
Booking Your Night
NYE tables at Celtic Manor go through the resort directly, and this is the fastest-selling date of the festive diary - it goes well before the night itself. If you want to be in the room, book early.
If Black Tie is more your speed, the 2026 Christmas party nights run across November and December in the same ballroom.
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