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22 December 2023, 14:01
Let our list of indie club bangers and dancefloor fillers take you right through to 2024.
New Year's Eve 2023 looks to be a big night for a lot of people - after the low-key events of the past few years and a return to nightlife in 2022, going out OUT is definitely here to stay.
Whether you're spending NYE with your family, your housemates, or if you're on your own, it doesn't mean you can't celebrate.
Let Radio X help you welcome in the new year in these strange and testing times with our playlist of absolute indie bangers!
Get our rundown on some of the biggest NYE bangers below and listen to the Radio X Indie Night, live from 7pm.
We may be dancing, but inside we're crying.
The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)
If you haven't danced to this one in a sweaty indie club, than have you even lived?
Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
The classic floor-filler from Mr Jamie Treays.
Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones (Official Video)
Tambourine-shaking optional.
Oasis - Supersonic (Official Video - UK Version)
You need to be on the danceflorr within a split second of this tune starting.
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1989.
The Stone Roses - Waterfall
Blissed out synth-pop from the Aussie duo.
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Official Video)
Get your hand off my thigh!
The Courteeners - Not Nineteen Forever
Let's dance to Let's Dance To Joy Division.
The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Woo-hoo-hoo!
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Was 2000 really that long ago? Yes. Yes, it was. Is it even an NYE playlist without a song that mentions the turn of the millennium? Nah.
Pulp - Disco 2000
Time to hang onto your best mate for dear life.
The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun (Official Video)
Get ready for the moshpit.
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Baggy shuffle par excellence
Blur - There's No Other Way
Big intro then crafty time change. Don't get caught out!
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (Official Video)
Tom 'n' Serge, we love you.
Kasabian - Club Foot
Feel that groovy Hammond organ sound.
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
The skinny-jeaned strut.
The Strokes - Last Nite
Storm the dancefloor now! (Safely)
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (Official Video)
Absolute banger that has us looking forward to the summer festival season already.
Foals - My Number
Nothing quite gets the indie dancefloor party started like Standing In The Way of control
Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Official Music Video)
One of the most brilliant intros ever.
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Baggy wonderment.
Happy Mondays - Step On
Seven minutes of sour-faced dancing. Tsst tsst tsst tsst!
New Order - Blue Monday 88 (Official Music Video)
There's a few indie bangers you could choose from the New York indie rockers; Date With The Night and Sacrilege to name a few. However with the lyrics "Of with your head/dance 'til your dead" Heads Will Roll just pips them to the post in our list of NYE fillers.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (Official Music Video)
It's a second appearance from Blur and granted, it's a bit of an obvious one, but nothing quite gets the dancefloor heaving like Song 2.
Blur - Song 2 (Official Music Video)
You need to flail around the dancefloor to this one, hand across the forehead.
The Smiths - This Charming Man (Official Music Video)
The stomp-tastic indie banger would be welcome on any indie New Year's Eve playlist. If its intro and infectious riff doesn't get your head banging then we fear you might just be dead inside...
The Walkmen The Rat
There's nothing quite like a euphoric dance to look back at the year. It might have a slower tempo, but it's no less impactful
Florence + The Machine - You've Got the Love