...Happy New Year!
The bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels were all bustling with New Year cheer... REALManchester brings you hundreds of photos of the big weekend. If you're not here then you weren't there!
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Ain't no stoppin' us...
photos by Sam Milford
Hoorah for the Poptastic boys down at Cruz to help everyone party on through Saturday night... good friends, good tunes and a friendly atmosphere are just what's required to nurse the New Year hangover.
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A different planet
photos by Sam Milford
Aaaah, the Hollywood. Guaranteed to be a giggle! Plenty to keep everyone amused - with the calmer, moodlit upstairs bar to practice your Karaoke if you tire of the cabaret!
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Start spreadin' the news...
photos by Sam Milford
I'm not quite sure how we ended up getting the bouncer to strip down to his waist, but what the hell - Happy New Year! And there was me complaining I was cold in my jumper & coat...
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New Year's Breakfast Club
photos by Sam Milford
A spot of Breakfast anyone? Your intrepid REALManchester, exhausted from New Year, settled down to a large vodka and snapped a few photos at Recreation as the party got started...
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Get used to it!
photos by Sam Milford
The well-dressed, party animals at Queer get themselves in front of the REALManchester camera for your delight over the New Year weekend...
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AXM
photos by Sam Milford
Popping a cork (or several) at midnight for the punters and laying on a seventy-two course meal (or something?!), AXM saw in the new year with customary style and panache...
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Those two pound doubles...
photos by Sam Milford
Yikes. Those £2 doubles are just so difficult to ignore. So why fight it? The music might be loud (I think my ears were bleeding by the time I left), but if you like your crowd young and cheeky and your drinks cheap...
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Not to be despensed with
photos by Sam Milford
Heaving! Absolutely bloody heaving! After having fought my way through the crowds and had a few near misses with the camera I had to return again on New Year's Day to get more photos... A mixture of the two nights follows...
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Pop goes the New Year
photos by Sam Milford
Your intrepid REALManchester reporter finds his way to Poptastic to get tagged up and join the funky, grungy and downright dirty New Year crowd at the Nutz. By the state of most of the people here, the new year definitely arrived with a Pop.
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...and I thought it was a restaurant!
photos by Sam Milford
Venturing into Taurus I was expecting to be confronted with tables of people enjoying a midnight New Year snack - but no! The party was in full swing, and the arrival of 2005 was being celebrated in style...
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Friendly faces...
photos by Sam Milford
The upstairs-downstairs of Via Fossa provided a great location for people who wanted the choice of chatting to friends or going downstairs for a bit of a bop as the New Year arrived...
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A ghost goes into a bar...
photos by Sam Milford
...and orders a large vodka and Red Bull. The barman replies, "Sorry mate, we don't serve spirits". Thankyouverymuchgoodnight. What can I say about Spirit over New Year? The pictures say it all... it was rather busy...
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