The Big Ten Inch & Disco Shed present New Years East

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For a few weeks in 2012, the eyes of the universe really were on East London. The Olympics highlighted everything that's great about the modern-day, vibrant, multicultural East End, and reminded everybody that there's still nowhere quite like the place when it comes to a good old-fashioned knees-up. So when we were thinking about a theme for our traditional Book Club New Year's spectacular, we really didn't have to look very far. We're transforming both floors into a celebration of all things East London, rolling out the barrel with market stalls, pie and mash, apple and pear bobbing, Brick Lane curry and prizes for the best-dressed East End icons.

At the top of the bill we've got a surprise guest who is an East End icon turned worldwide A-lister. That's as much as we can say for now, but trust us – you won't want to miss him (or her)!

Elsewhere The Disco Shed and Big Ten Inch residents and regulars will be bringing the party as only they know how. DJ Wrongtom enjoyed a spectacular success in 2012 with '...In East London', his LP with mic-man Deemas J on Tru-Thoughts. His DJ sets are a bastion of the unexpected, and are as likely to have people dancing their pearls off to bhangra and sea shanties as they are to post-punk and Prince.

The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band (or the hardest-drinking 7-piece in jazz) claim to have been formed in Hoxton in 1900, and promise to ring in the New Year in trademark rawkus style. This involves barnstorming, brassbound swing, bad tap dancing, drunkenness, kazoo solos and a jumping brand of rhythm & blues once described as 'the authentic sound of New Orleans, possibly during the hurricane'.

Peepshow Paddy and the Disco Shed residents complete the line-up in the basement, which will be hosted by the irrepressible, unstoppable MC Honey Brown, while up the apples and pears in the bar there's a free East End buffet and piano singalongs for early-comers, not to mention Count

Skylarkin, Ska Cubano's Natty Bo and The Big Ten Inch crew spinning killer vintage 45s and 78s