So you are in Belgrade and want to party for the New Year’s eve, eh? And there’s only three days left… don’t worry, Belgrade citizens love to party, so you’ll have a chance of attending the New Year’s eve re-run if you miss the real thing. Some clubs even offer re-run of the re-run if you are not completely wasted after that.

I did the dirty job of finding the best places to party like it’s 2009.

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This is what most clubs in Belgrade have to offer: entrance fee from 25-50 Euros, most drinks included in the price, and some snacks, with the danger of both drinks and the snacks running out somewhere in the middle of the night. A generic party band is playing cover songs from Balkans and possibly a foreign tune every now and then. At midnight – a brass band is coming in and playing so loud that nobody hears anything. Most clubs count on the fact that you will manage to get so drunk and snag somebody in the process that you won’t mind the party being generally turbo folk crap.
In case you don’t want to follow this line of entertainment, here are some more elegant ways to get wasted and possibly snug somebody:

Junior Jack in Belgrade Arena
Nicola Conte and other DJs at the Tube
Alex Gaudino in Expo XXI
Prometheus live [Benji Vaughan] in XLagoom
Drum n Bass and Reggae New Year’s Eve in Akademija
Indie-Go! and Marko Gangbanger in Francuska Sobarica club
Sol de Verao (dnb) in Cvijecara

Re-runs:
Reconstruction Retro Techno on January 1st at XLagoom
Darkwood Dub on January 1st in Dom Omladine
Disciplina Kitchme on January 2nd in Akademija
Young punk bands from January 1st at Tasmajdan

As always, the best thing to do is find a party at someone’s place and get wasted there.
If you know any other interesting places to recommend for the New Year’s eve, leave them in the comments.

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