New Year’s Day 2026 parties in London

Not had enough fun this New Year? Get yourself down to KOKO on January 1 for a special edition of Glitterbox, the long-running party from house music institution Defected. DJs Mousse T, Aroop Roy and Lev are fronting the event, with a ‘very special guest’ still to be announced. There’ll be dancers, performers and drag artists drifting through the venue to keep the energy high, too. If you’re looking for an inclusive, welcoming and uplifting place to bring in 2026, you can’t go wrong here.

After 24 years on the block, Corsica Studios is hosting its final season in 2026 (sad!), but it’s not going out without a bang. Kicking things off is the New Year’s Day party (or New Year’s Eve afters, depending on how your night goes) with wall-to-wall techno from 7am to 6pm. The line-up includes Burden, James Harbrecht, Sofi. and secret guests still to be announced.  

One for the proper ravers here; east London warehouse club Fold is once again seeing in the New Year with an extended 24-hour edition of its flagship queer party Unfold. If you’ve been before, you’ll know the drill: the line-up will remain unannounced, with tickets only available on the door. Expect long queues outside (we’d recommend grabbing a few tinnies from the corner shop for the wait) and pounding techno from the best selectors this side of Berghain once you’re inside. Wear black, obviously. And dress to sweat.

Now onto its sixth edition, the Half Baked x Art of Dark New Year’s Day shubz is now a firm fixture of London’s NYD clubbing scene. The veteran clubnights will once again join forces to stage a rager of a party heralding in 2026. Staged across three rooms at Hackney Wick’s Bar 90, expect to hear a massive variety of club music from legendary DJs including Jane Fitz, Voitgtmann, Colin Chiddle and Unai Trotti. The Bar 90 kitchen will be open during the day for anyone who needs to refuel. 

Night Tales’ free New Year’s Day party will be worth powering through your NYE hangover for.  Rolling house and deep disco bangers will soundtrack the event, which kicks off on NT’s Loft at 3pm. Entry is completely and utterly free if you arrive before 4pm but it’ll cost you £3 from then until 6pm and £5 if you want the freedom to arrive at any time (ie. if you need a few extra hours to recover from the night before). 

This is the cult queer NYD party where anything and everything goes. Taking place at the honorary home of Adonis, The Cause, the line-up is still to be revealed, but you can expect the same open-armed, fun-loving vibes, plus plenty of acid, techno, feelgood house and everything in between.Kicking off at the early hour of 8am, we expect some of the punters will be rolling straight through from their New Year’s Eve kikis. Adonis has just announced it will be throwing fewer parties in 2026 to focus on building a new festival, so better make the most of it while you can. 

The party doesn’t stop at NYE for All My Friends. The Hackney Wick bar and vinyl shop is setting off 2026 with a two part party. The day-lit, plant-filled venue should be the perfect place to ‘dance away the scaries’ (in their words), with tunes spanning hip hop, neo soul, jazz funk, house and beyond. And if you get there early enough, entry is free. 

After closing its NYD day party in KOKO’s theatre, Glitterbox will hand the baton over to Dutch DJ Bakermat to keep things going until the early hours. Bakermat’s Circus is a dizzying spectacle of feel-good house, jazz and disco and will be pulling up at KOKO for the very first time to mark the start of 2026. 

Named after a track by 1977 by NYC rockers Television, Dalston boozer the Marquee Moon was opened in the summer 2024 by the team behind east London club The Cause, so you can bet it has some serious party-throwing credentials. They will have some easygoing house, funk and soul tunes spinning in both their ground floor bar and basement venue this New Year’s Day. Head down for some killer cocktails and inventive pub grub inspired by south Asian flavours while DJs Fling Down, Sean F and Effy Mai spin tunes until the early hours. 

The Peckham pub/club run by The Cause is hosting a NYD party with house legend Lukas Wigflex. Lukas and some special guests still to be announced will be partying all day in the Greyhound’s cosy basement venue to herald in the new year. With tickets starting at £9 and pints going for £4, expect a day of wallet-friendly revelry by some of London’s most esteemed party starters. 

DJ EZ is bringing his annual New Year’s Day party to E1 in 2026. The don of garage music will be shelling out a marathon eight-hour old skool garage set in the east London club. Bring your game face (and try not to be too hungover from the night before), because it’s going to be a high-energy day. 

CAYA (standing for ‘come as you are’) is fabric’s weekly, and free, Sunday night party, where all are welcome. The non-pretentious knees-up will take over the club for New Year’s Day 2026, with DJs spinning forward thinking house, techno and everything in between. The NYD line-up features Bushbaby, Rennie Peters, Kepler and Renitas. Running from 10pm to 5pm, this is one for the stamina crew – just make sure to book the day off on January 2.