Love this city and party

STILL not sure what to do on New Year’s Eve? Maybe you should have a tasty nightcap with muchloved ARIA Award-winning group The Whitlams.

After five years of perseverance and touring, The Whitlams — Tim Freedman (piano, vocals), Jak Housden (guitar), Warwick Hornby (bass) and Terepai Richmond (drums) — enjoyed their big breakthrough 20 years ago when their smash hit single No Aphrodisiac was voted in at No.1 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 1997.

The success of No Aphrodisiac and the album it was lifted from, the doubleplatinum Eternal Nightcap, led to The Whitlams taking home ARIA Awards for Best Group, Song of the Year and Best Independent Release.

Eternal Nightcap — which also featured the singles You Sound Like Louis Burdett and Melbourne — was later voted in at No.17 in Triple J’s list of the Hottest Australian Albums of All Time.

Since then another three Whitlams studio albums have made the ARIA Chart top 20 — 1999’s double-platinum Love This City (No.3), 2002’s Torch the Moon (No.1) and 2006’s Little Cloud (No.4).

The 2008 best-of album Truth, Beauty & A Picture of You reached No.3 on the charts and spent six weeks in the top 10.

More recently, Freedman released the solo album Australian Idle in 2011, and in 2015 toured his one-man Harry Nilsson tribute show Everybody’s Talkin’ ’bout Me.

The Whitlams will be back in Hobart in May, performing their most popular tracks such as Blow Up the Pokies, Fall for You and Thank You (for Loving Me at My Worst) as part of their 25th anniversary tour.

But this weekend they’ll join Monique Brumby, Mighty Duke & The Lords, Heloise and Katy Raucher & The Spectrums on the Taste of Tasmania New Year’s Eve line-up from 6pm on Sunday.

Tickets start at $65, go to www.thetasteoftasmania.com.au for bookings and more details.