You may recall back during last year’s Manchester International Festival a bloke called Gareth McCann started up a fringe festival of sorts - Not Part of Manchester International Festival.

People - me included - thought this was generally A Good Thing, as it gave those arts events not selected (or even submitted) to MIF a bit of extra exposure when they might otherwise have been overlooked.

I expected NPOMIF (now renamed to the Not Part of Festival) to re-emerge in about 18 months time, when the second festival is scheduled to take place. But Gareth and (wife?) Beth have now organised a one-off music event and, inkeeping with quirky tradition, it’s a New Years Eve party two weeks late:

Not Part Of New Years Eve

When: 12 Jan 2008, 3pm-10pm
Where: The Dancehouse, Oxford Road, M1 5QE

Music from:
The Starfighter Pilot
Bleeding Hands
The Lazy Browns
Samson & Delilah
Kinetic Fallacy
Tom Kerswill
Belle Of Le Bois & Semi Precious Gents
Paul Hand
Pleasure Drenching Improvers
Ragz
Fublic Dick
Shakey Jakes

Poetry from:
Paul Knight
Stephanie Portersmith
24 Hour Arty People
Richard Barrett

Comedy from:
Bryan Lacey
Mel Moon
Sir Richard Swan
Jason Cooke
Fiona Abernethy
Comedy Sportz

Dance from:
The Glitter Kittens
The Spokes

Theatre:
‘Pillow-Man’
‘Being Sebastien’
Shangrila Theatre
Jamie Scott
‘Left Blank’
No Attitude Theatre Company

Sounds like it’ll be a busy evening - and the Dancehouse is well worth checking out. It’s £7 (£5 conc) on the door.