Radio 1 DJ says playing house party ‘brilliant’ after cancelled Hogmanay event
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BBC Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free has said it was “brilliant” to go “back” to her roots and play a house party in Glasgow after her set at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party was cancelled due to bad weather. Free, 36, who hosts Radio 1’s Rave-Up show, was due to play at the Party Stage on Waverley Bridge before the celebrations were called off by organisers after Met Office yellow weather warnings for most of Scotland on Monday and Tuesday.
After being “inundated” with messages, Free organised three sets in Glasgow – one at Nico’s Bar, another at The Locale, and a set at a house party where the decks were placed on kitchen hobs. She told the PA news agency: “It’s always such a great, high energy, just really like a beautiful evening of unity and everyone having a wonderful time and getting on.
“And it’s such a great way to see in the New Year and I was reposting videos from the first and last time I did it (Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party), which was 2019, and then I started getting announcements that it was being cancelled because of the weather.”.
Free said she put on her socials that she was “quite upset” before someone on X, formerly Twitter, posted asking if anyone was booking her for a house party. “And I put it (the post) up on my Instagram and suddenly was getting inundated with messages and I thought, actually, there could be something in this.”.
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