Venue: Woking Leisure Centre
City: Woking, Surrey
Country: United Kingdom
Eric Clapton – guitar / vocals
Andy Fairweather Low – guitar / mandolin / vocals
Gary Brooker – keyboards / vocals
Chris Stainton – keyboards
Dave Bronze – bass
Henry Spinetti – drums
Sharon White – backing vocals
Michelle John – backing vocals
The New Year’s Eve Dances were private sober and substance free events for people in recovery and their family and friends hosted by Eric Clapton and friends between 1992 and 2012. There was no dance in 1998. Tickets were not available to the general public. Each year, Eric and the other musicians billed themselves under a creative band name.
In 2022, Eric and his friends hosted a New Year’s Eve show in the spirit of recovery at the same location that was open to the public. It was held in memory of Gary Brooker (Procul Harum), who joined Eric on stage at many of the New Year’s Eve dances.
01. Knock On Wood
02. Reconsider Baby
03. Unchain My Heart
04. Too Much Monkey Business
05. Traveling Light *
06. Route 66
07. Don’t You Just Know It
08. When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful **
09. Five Long Years
10. Shake Rattle ‘N Roll
11. In The Midnight Hour
12. Hoochie Coochie Man
13. Young Blood
14. Blueberry Hill
15. Wil The Circle Be Unbroken
16. Gin House
17. Willie & The Hand Jive
18. A Whiter Shade Of Pale
19. Cocaine
20. Cigarettes, Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women
* This was the Cliff Richard song, not the J.J. Cale song of the same title
** Performed on electric guitar