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If you don't want to be stuck at home singing Auld Lang Syne to your cat, check out our list of New Year's Eve gigs and make a plan - now! Around the country, New Zealand's top entertainers are coming together to ring in 2007. No matter where you are or what your budget, there's a party not too far away. So grab a mate or a date or your kids and get ready for the countdown ...
AUCKLAND
First Night: Pacific Bright 2007
What: Goldenhorse, Aaradhna, Dziah and more will entertain at this free family event.
Where: Aotea Square, 7pm, free (all ages).
The Buzz Junior Jungle Party
What: Auckland Zoo celebrates New Year's in Tiger Time (three hours ahead of everyone else) so even the smallest pandas can take part in the festivities.
Where: Auckland Zoo, 6pm, tickets from $10, from Ticketek.
Singularity -The NYE Psychedelic Adventure
What: International DJs EVP, Reality Grid, Leon and Couch from Wild Things Records promise a psychedelic spectacle in Auckland.
Where: Space, Newmarket, 9pm, tickets $55 from Ticketek
New Year's Eve 007
What: DJs Nice n Urlich, Aural Trash, Rob Salmon, Hayden Keys, Roger Perry & many more
Where: St James, Auckland, 9pm, $45 from TicketDirect
Gatecrasher
What: Superclub Gatecrasher rings in the New Year with John 00 Fleming (UK), Dave Lee (UK), McEnergy, Jay Kay, Page 3, Dalai, Astral, Tania M and Heretic.
Where: Studio, K Rd, 9pm, tickets $60 from Ticketek. (R18)
Urban Orphans Uprising
What: Bands the City Newton Bombers, The WBC, The Rabble, The Have, Amperzahn, The Dust and Farmer Pimp.
Where: Kings Arms, Auckland, 4pm, tickets $20 from Ticketmaster. (R18)
New Yeah!
What: Dance-plus extravaganza across three zones: Turnaround with Manuel Bundy, Cian and the Submariner; The Black Luck Club with Phoebe and Grimas, The Tutts, Motocade and 1995; and Lightspeed with Ian Pooley, North Shore Pony Club and Roger Perry .
Where: 4:20, 10.30pm, tickets $65 from Ticketek. (R18)
New Year's Eve Dance Party at Stonyridge (R18)
Featuring: international DJs Freemasons and Soul Central, plus local acts, Andy Ward and Timmy Vegas, Grant Marshall, Jolyon Petch, Cuffy, Levani and Jacob.
Where: Stonyridge Vineyard, Waiheke Island, tickets $150 from Real Groovy, Route 66 or Stonyridge.
THE REGIONS
Blindspott (R18)
What: Hard men of local rock Blindspott, The Bleeders, Full Nelson and Take the Willing hit the Mount.
Where: Brewers Stadium of Rock, Mt Maunganui, 8pm, tickets $30 from Ticketek
Rhythm & Vines
What: Shapeshifter, Kora, Katchafire, Minuit, the Electric Confectionaires and many more play this 24-hour annual festival in Gisborne.
Where: Waiohika Estate, Gisborne, noon, limited tickets available from Ticketmaster. (R18)
Jimmy Barnes
What: Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes, guitarist Diesel and band hit Napier as part of the pair's New Zealand's summer tour.
Where: East Pier, Hawkes Bay, 8.15pm, tickets $62.50 from Ticketek
The Feelers One World Tour
What: The Feelers are joined by OpShop's Jason Kerrison and Donald Reid, as well as Westie comic Ewen Gilmour on a national summer tour
Where: Waihi Beach Hotel, 8pm, tickets $40 from Ticketek. (R18)
Mercury Rising
What: Fat Freddy's Drop, Concord Dawn, Nesian Mystik, Tahuna Breaks, PNC with P Money and a host of other local musos party it up in the Coromandel.
Where: Ohuka Farm, Whitianga, 4pm, tickets $75 from Ticketek (R18).
RU Uawa - Uawa Rocks
What: Capping off the week-long Uawanui Arts Festival, RU Uawa will feature Ruia, Whirimako Black, Katchafire, Kora, Ardijah, TOHU and TYNA, plus international guest Renee Geyer.
Where: Tolaga Bay Domain, East Coast, from 5pm, tickets $100 from Ticketek.
