Montreal New Years Eve 2012 :: the Blog

As it is now my long-lasting tradition, I let the “real media” do all the hard work, and just link to it from our blog.

And here we go again, for NYE 2012 celebrations, the Mirror has compiled all the big nightclub events, a listing of bars and clubs where you can drink the year away, and finally a listing of live music and other performances happening on the 31st of December 2011.

All these listings and otherwise useful information was collected by paid professional journalists, so that all I have to do is link to (as done above).

Obviously, as shameless promotion, I want to remind everyone that you can buy tickets for some of the events listed by the Mirror on our very own NYE events listings section, where yo can shop for NYE tickets online at ClubZone.com.

Contrarily to the crazy consumer that you are, I personally haven’t done any Christmas shopping yet.

Still, I need to buy a minimum number of things. Not for me, for other. You see, knowing how knowledgeable I am in all things cool in Montreal, other people mandate me to purchase their gifts, and then go on vacation while I am left slaving-off in Montreal.

The sad reality is, I have no idea where to begin. I did a quick search in all the “real media” out there, and there is nothing. We’ve been left on our own.

Last year, we just published a link to the Montreal Mirror’s Christmas shopping guide. This year we have nothing to link to yet. Come-on “real media”! Get cranking. So we can link and re-link and blog, re-blog and re-tweet it all.

Until then, I came upon this amazingly interesting blog about Montreal’s sewer and underground: UnderMontreal. If Andrew Emond, the author of UnderMontreal, publishes a book about his explorations of Montreal’s underbelly, it would be a crazy amazing Christmas gift.

Another idea, how about a Cesária Évora CD? She was a great voice in a see of bland commercialism (wow, that is deep, but seriously, she was amazing).

A surreal scene from UnderMontreal

It’s because of events like those that you need to read newspapers like the Mirror regularly. I just learned, a few minutes ago, that British musician Bonobo will be DJing live at Le Belmont tonight (on 4483 Saint-Laurent).

Actually, even reading the Mirror might not have been enough, considering that the show is already sold-out. The question that we need to answer then is: how the hell did all these people that bought tickets know about the concert? Is there some-kind of secret Bonobo concert email list that I am not aware of? Or maybe people “follow” Bonobo on facebook? (that sounds lame actually, I don’t even want to follow myself on facebook).

Regardless of the question of why I only learned today about the concert happening tonight, Bonobo is a great artists, if you like chill electronic music that is. If you have the chance to score tickets somehow, and you want to spend the night grooving, then Bonobo will deliver just that.

For those who don’t know Bonobo, here is the classical track that made me discover him. Now that’s some dope sounds:

Some more from Bonobo:

And finally another great classic form Bonobo: