Countdown to Armageddon? Win Yen New Year Tickets!

It’s only five days till 2012, but you’ve still got one big decision to make: Where are you going to be at midnight on New Year’s Eve? We’ve already highlighted the Nova party at 751 D-Park, and given you an in-depth roundup of parties taking place around town, but would winning a pair of tickets to the Yen Countdown party at 798 help you make your choice?

With local legends and Yen veterans such as Dio, Yang Bing, Ou Yang and Slide heading up the bill, you can be sure that this year’s Countdown will be a feast for the ears as well as a melting pot of party people from around the world. Gigantic warehouse? Mind-melting visual effects? Ground-shaking sound system? Yen’s got them all – and what more do you need? If you’ve been at one of Yen’s New Year parties before, you know you don’t want to miss this. If you haven’t, go and see for yourself.

We’ll give you the chance to win tickets in just a moment, but firstly here’s all the information you need:

Venue and time
9pm-late. 798 Art Space, 798 Art District

Tickets
RMB 150, RMB 100 (advance)

Tickets available at ...
Sanlitun: Aperitivo, Jazz-Ya, Fish Nation, Willow Willow
Wudaokou: Lush
798: Dongjin Yishu Gongcheng
Gulou: Pass By Bar, Bed, Luce, Yugong, Yishan, Plastered and Cafe Zarah
Chaoyang Park West Gate: Souk
CBD: Tim's Texas Bar-B-Q
Online: www.clubzone.cn

For more information, call 158 0167 1864 (English) or 136 8333 4144 (Chinese).

Now it’s your chance to win two tickets for Yen. All you have to do to put yourself in the running is leave a comment below telling us: If, as the Mayan calendar is said to predict, 2012 does turn out to be the end of the world, what would be the last song you would want to hear? The best answer submitted before 2pm on Wednesday, December 28 gets our tickets.

PHOTOS: Courtesy of o2Culture

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We have a winner: we've decided to award user thenines two tickets for Yen. However, he/she won't be in Beijing at the time so congratulations, Ni.Hao.Dinosaur! You won two tickets to Yen! Our lovely marketing staff will contact you for sending you the tickets.

Nothing to see here

Everybody dancing to "Stayin' Alive" by The Beegees.

"knockin' on heaven's door" sounds about right by the legend Bob Dylan...

Auld Lang Syne

"All I need is a miracle" by Mike and the Mechanics

estd 2009

Ride of the valkyries

Dirty Dancing soundtrack: '(I've Had) The Time of My Life'.

Go out doing the Patrick Swayze <:P :

"Time for Miracles" by Adam Lambert from the "2012" movie.

Awww, cheap shot. The Mayan calendar doesn't predict the end of the world, it just signifies the end of the 13th baktun, or calendar cycle, and the beginning of the next one. But I digress.
But, if it did happen to be the last song, I think it'd be hilarious to see everyone singing/doing the "YMCA" as the Earth explodes.

Splash - Babylon (Dillinja Remix)

"For I & I know that all of the youth shall witness the day that Babylon shall fall!"

The both... just amazing. Birdy Nam Nam: Abbesses
Daft Punk : Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - R.E.M.
Yeah, I went there...BIG TIME.

Monty Python - "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life". Hilarious yet poignant, the one song to properly capture the dark absurdity of it all.

Close second: AC/DC - "Highway to Hell". For the unfettered hedonistic joy of its nihilism. Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

No Britney, please.