🚀 THE INDIE TIME MACHINE
New Year’s Eve in Nottingham just levelled up. This year, Romance are ripping up the rulebook and hurling you headfirst into the past, present and future with THE INDIE TIME MACHINE… a full-scale, time-travelling NYE spectacular taking over Rescue Rooms on Wednesday 31st December 2025. If you’ve ever wanted to celebrate New Year’s Eve in 1985 and 2005 and 2025 all in the same night… your moment has arrived.
We’re talking three rooms of genre-defining bangers, decades-spanning chaos, immersive décor, festival-level production, and a midnight countdown that’ll rewrite the space-time continuum itself. Throw on your wildest fancy dress, warm up that air guitar, grab your companions, and prepare to jump through the eras of indie rock’n’roll like never before.
🌀 A Time-Travelling Trip Through Indie History
From the neon-soaked 80s to the chaotic brilliance of the 2020s, you’ll hop across decades faster than a DeLorean hitting 88mph. Expect each era to hit with full force – the fashion, the energy, the anthems – all powered by our Romance resident DJs and a sound system ready to blast you across centuries.
🚀 VENUE — THE INDIE TIME MACHINE
The main room becomes your cosmic shuttle, touching down in:
80s BLAST OFF
Kate Bush • New Order • ABBA • Talking Heads • The Cure • Madonna • Fleetwood Mac • Joy Division • The Smiths • Prince • Queen • Phil Collins • Inner City • TOTO • Blondie • Duran Duran • The Human League & more.
90s HYPERSPACE
Alanis Morissette • Nirvana • Blur • Pulp • Oasis • TLC • Spice Girls • Beastie Boys • Red Hot Chili Peppers • No Doubt • The Verve • George Michael • Stereophonics • Shania Twain • The Cranberries & more.
00s INDIE GALAXY
Arctic Monkeys • The Killers • The Strokes • Bloc Party • Franz Ferdinand • Foals • MGMT • LCD Soundsystem • Razorlight • Kasabian • Hot Chip • Interpol • Kings of Leon • Maxïmo Park & all your mid-00s festival heroes.
10s COSMOS
Tame Impala • Wolf Alice • CHVRCHES • alt-J • Bombay Bicycle Club • Two Door Cinema Club • The xx • Jungle • Cage The Elephant • Florence + The Machine • Lorde • The Vaccines • Parquet Courts • Future Islands & more.
20s HYPERNOVA
Wet Leg • Fontaines D.C. • Yard Act • The Last Dinner Party • Wunderhorse • Inhaler • Sam Fender • Beabadoobee • The Dare • Fat Dog • Confidence Man • CMAT • Coach Party & all the future-of-indie favourites rewriting the rules right now.
And just when you think you’ve landed safely… you’ll crash into the future 💥
🏠 BAR — HOUSE PARTY
A NYE house party without the clean-up. The HP DJs dropping the biggest pop, hip-hop, dance, rock, rnb and more in the Rescue Rooms bar! You can expect glow sticks, stolen hats, and pure chaotic joy.
🎤 RED ROOM — 00s KARAOKE
Your chance to howl the classics. Expect everything from indie sleaze scream-alongs to pop-punk heartbreakers. Grab the mic, grab your friends, claim your moment.
🎆 Countdowns, Cannons & Cosmic Surprises
We’re bringing the full NYE treatment:
✨ Huge midnight countdown
✨ Confetti explosions & smoke cannons
✨ Lasers lighting up the dancefloor
✨ Two giant outdoor terraces to cool off
✨ Throwback fancy dress encouraged
✨ £50 bar tab prize for the best dressed
✨ Festival-style surprises around every corner
➕ even more still to be announced…
Come as a time traveller, an 80s icon, a 00s indie kid, a sci-fi character, or whatever chaotic creation your time portal spits out. The weirder the better.
🎫 Event Details
THE INDIE TIME MACHINE
New Year’s Eve Time-Travelling Party
Wednesday 31st December 2025
Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
8pm—4am
18+
Nottingham’s indie community, this is the NYE party you’ve been waiting for. Step inside the Indie Time Machine… and let’s start 2026 with a bang big enough to echo across every decade.
