From Destiny's Child, to New York Dolls, what will you be spinning at midnight tonight?
Gaz Mayall
DJ, Gaz's Rockin' Blues (appearing at the Tabernacle, London)
Aulde Lang Syne, The Trojans
"We recorded it in 1994 because I thought if the day comes when I'm not playing with my band [British ska outfit the Trojans] I need to have that one up my sleeve. I can't imagine Hogmanay without bagpipes. It starts slow and I like to stop the music when I play it and then everyone sings along ? it's completely chaotic and nuts."
Gemma Cairney
Presenter, BBC 1Xtra
Bug a Boo, Destiny's Child
"Sod the nibbles, grab your glass of cava and play the song from the album that inspired me to never, ever be one that wasn't shaking booty on the dancefloor [The Writing's On the Wall]. You'll be surprised how many people ? predominately female ? start screaming. Bug a Boo brings out the inner beast, which is perfect on a New Year's Eve tear-up."
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Newsreader, Channel 4
Fools Gold, The Stone Roses
"For a 40-year-old man from the north of England it has the obvious attraction of taking me back to both my 'roots', and to early adulthood. I was 19 when it came out, going to university and working in 'Yoof TV' at the same time. It conjures happy, carefree late nights, dancing until the early hours and behaviour best forgotten except when feeling nostalgic. And it has the added advantage of being quite a slow dance track, so you can happily jig along with dignity or go into the full 1989 act, depending on how much energy you have and how many inhibitions have been shed."
Broken Hearts
DJ duo
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!), The Beastie Boys
"Our ideal NYE track. It perfectly captures the euphoric atmosphere and lets people embrace their inner adolescent. It also has a personal resonance for us, as we first bonded over vodka and our shared love of the Beastie Boys."
Kissy Sell Out
DJ, Radio 1 (appearing at The Arches, Glasgow/City Nightclub, Edinburgh)
Shout, The Isley Brothers
"I was watching Wedding Crashers the other day and it opens with it. It's so singalong; if you try and play something serious such as Love Will Tear Us Apart people don't really get it. They just want to lose it and jump about the place. You gotta give people what they came for."
Anna Greenwood & Sean Rowley
Guilty Pleasures DJs (appearing at Guilty Pleasures Masked Ball, Komedia, Brighton)
Jump, The Pointer Sisters
"It's New Year's Eve, ergo one wants to hear music that makes you feel giddy and silly. There is no room for obscure indie B-sides here, if you please. The Pointer Sisters looked like three top aunties in lam� wrap-dresses having the time of their lives. Ruth Pointer was in fact a grandma when this track came out, putting paid to the ageists out there. Thumping beat, top synth stabs, ace euphoric vocals."
Jack Savidge
Friendly Fires (appearing at Bugged Out at XOYO, London)
Love is in the Air, John Paul Young
"It starts off subdued and quiet, so just after midnight everyone can get on with hugs and wishing each other a happy new year. Then it surges upwards and there's a huge explosive moment. More so than any other time of the year, there needs to be some kind of watershed to give the sense of moving into the future."
Barry Stilwell
DJ (appearing at Tapestry, London)
Personality Crisis, New York Dolls
"I love David Johansen's strangulated yodel on the intro, which is perfect after the countdown and because I usually veer towards the glam/punk end of the scale on New Year's Eve. It has to have a dynamite intro; descending piano and screaming guitar. Also, if anyone sums up total abandon and good times, it's the Dolls."
Krissi Murison
Editor, NME
Sound and Vision, David Bowie
"I can't think of a single moment when listening to this song wouldn't be appropriate, so the first three minutes of 2011 makes as much sense as any other."
Joe Goddard
Hot Chip (appearing at The Hoxton Pony, London)
She Can't Love You, Chemise
"I'd love to be able to say that the best thing about DJing on New Year's Eve is the bonhomie, the joie de vivre, the possibility of hope for a better tomorrow . . . But the honest answer is the cash and the fact that the crowd is in a good, if a little boisterous, mood. Chemise sounds like she's having fun while she's singing. It's charming and full of hooks."
John Kennedy
DJ, Xfm
In The Midnight Hour, Moloko
"An absolutely brilliant soukous version of the Wilson Pickett classic. It has a ridiculously infectious rhythm that gets even the most reluctant feet moving while doing a spot of air cowbell. The soaring guitars just go higher and higher, which makes it ideal for the last half-hour build up to the chimes. I've tried and tested it many times, and it works a treat."
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