READY to draw a line under 2016? Same here. Because we all know everything will change as soon as the clock hits 12am on Sunday, sending us hurtling blindly into a better year.

It has been a year of atrocities, social earthquakes, high-profile death and depravity. An endless cycle of diseases, bombings, shootings, elections, hate.

“Like a single sleepless night,” writes Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker, “spent absorbing an interminable series of nightmares through my phone.”

But at least it will be over soon. Let’s celebrate that, and hope that, at least for a while, 2017 provides some respite from the horror (full disclosure: I’m fully aware that it won’t, but you have to hold out some kind of hope, don’t you?).

The best part is that you don’t even need to wait until Hogmanay to start exorcising the memories. Pressure are taking over the whole of SWG3 tomorrow, with Detroit pioneer Jeff Mills as a very special guest. There are few DJs in the world capable of what he does: pulling together steely, industrial-leaning techno with orchestral flashes and a driving toughness that underpins it all. He is a phenomenon, a true innovator, and one of the greats of American dance music. On top of this, the gig is a 25th anniversary party for Slam’s Soma Records label, and as such it has the local legends playing live, alongside Silicone Soul, Funk D’Void, Charles Fenckler and Petrichor. Result. It would be folly not to use this night as the basis for your Hogmanay escapades.

• Pressure with Jeff Mills, tomorrow, SWG3, 10pm – 3am, £23

Hogmanay

And then, on Saturday night, comes the biggie. There are, of course, a multitude of parties to hit up: some good, some downright awful. But here are some of the ones that are worthy of your attendance.

Subculture’s party at the Sub Club (10pm – 4am, £29.50) has residents Harri and Dom alongside local hero (and, more recently, ramen king) Jackmaster and the German house and disco selector Gerd Jansen. The latter two recently went back to back at ADE in Amsterdam with ridiculously heavy results: prepare for more of the same here. And, in the unlikely event that you’re still up for it on New Year’s Day, the same venue has soulful deep house producer Kerri Chandler (11pm – 3am, £18) in attendance. Start as you mean to go on, and all that.

Back over to Finnieston now, where SWG3 has a choice of two parties. The Colours Classics NYE (9pm – 3am, £27.20) has old school names like Tall Paul and Fergie spinning big ‘90s anthems. While this is going on upstairs, the more compact TV Studio has Back To The Future’s Dance Anthems (9pm – 3am, £27.20), with Darren Styles playing his first-ever set at the venue, with local veteran Mallorca Lee providing support. Keeping it West End but with a completely different atmosphere, the Ashton Lane Street Party (7pm – 12.45am, £25) has a ceilidh band, DJs and barbeques all night, and everyone is “encouraged to wear tartan”. Shame it’s completely sold out.

Over at the Art School, the cosmic techno pairing of Jon Hopkins and Nathan Fake (10pm – 4am, £30) is supplemented by Nightwave and Konx-Om-Pax and their weirdo, ravey, grimy bass noises. At nearby Broadcast, On the House and Broken Disco (8pm – 4am, £18) take over both floors, with Ostgut Ton’s Adesse Versions and Glasgow Underground’s Illyus and Barrientos the standout names.

At Stereo (11pm – 4am, £8), a hip-hop/R&B dream team come together to make sweet vibes for the first time: the Push It residents combining with the Handpicked Cassette Tapes family to turn Renfield Lane into “a multi-sensory sweatbox”. Stereo’s sister bar Mono hosts a belter as the crew behind Freakender – by far the musical highlight of the year – see out the year with Happy Meals playing live, and a DJ set by local indie legends the Pastels. For similar scenes check out Nice N Sleazy (10pm – 3am, £3), where Belle and Sebastian’s Chris “Beans” Geddes and Andrew Divine are spinning disco, funk and pop and there’s mulled Buckfast behind the bar. Just down the street, indie poppers Prides play live at the ABC’s Magic Nostalgic (11pm – 3am, £17), which has a wheel of chance deciding what music gets played. Ingenious!

And – finishing it off on a high-end and cultured note, there’s glamour and drama on the cards at Merchant City’s Kavalli, where the Black and Gold Party (9pm – 4am, £15) gives you the unmissable chance to see Coventry Sphinx winger and reality tv star Ashley Cain play a live DJ set. Almost like that time Pat Nevin played at ATP, isn’t it? Have a blast, whatever you do, and see you back here next Thursday as we trawl through the aftermath.