FAQ

Hallucination Before Christmas is where Christmas and Halloween collide in holiday havoc! Jingle janglin’ in your area, causin’ mass hysteria, we’re back with the celebration that will make you wish Christmas came more than once a year.

30 years running, Hallucination Before Christmas is electronic dance music’s official holiday event where we all come together to share in the holiday spirit. Hallucination Before Christmas has been dubbed one of the most famous holiday event in the Southeast.

The year, nineteen hundred ninety five, the setting Atlanta Georgia. Longtime friend and cohort of Monk & Hallucination, a family member in so many words had a brainstorm, and started the ball rolling on an event that eventually would take on a life of it’s own. The idea, raise some cans of food for the Atlanta Food Bank, while getting friends together to have a good time, and to celebrate the holidays with some good music. The first show setting, a hole in the wall club, that at times, records would skip, and if your pants were dragging on the ground, they were definitely getting’ nasty. Nevertheless, the night went off without a hitch, and we vowed to “do it again the next year”. Fast forward, Hallucination Before Christmas 1996, the venue, SOL nightclub and lounge…and the previous dj cast of Richard Leslie, with Monk and Confucius, billed as a Rabbit In The Moon dj set, with a new character, our friend, dj and misfit SANTA “Tommie” SUNSHINE. When we raised at least five times the food as the previous year, Santa Sunshine wreaked havoc with “gifts for kisses with santa”, and the place went completely berserk with sick sounds of the massive underground sound…we knew this was the beginning of something special…

In 1997, We decided to move forward with our own “in house” Hallucination Recordings Christmas Party…taking the original concept, and running with it, and bringing it HOME, to Tampa Florida, our home base, with our family and friends.



Each year, Hallucination has stepped up production to new levels with new visuals, Xmas props, new innovative flyer designs and E-Flyers, Websites & Video (with Graphic Designers Monk & CLRH2O, graphic artist Drone, and internet artist Bryan at HALLUCINATION MEDIA, the best in sound with ESI, our vital street team members & volunteers, and to top it off, digital visual graphics, and video from Monk, Monica & Berkeley of Hallucination On Film.



As we stepped up production, so did the excitement. Friends and affiliates of Hallucination from across the country send 1000’s of gift giveaways each year and most importantly WE RAISE MORE AND MORE CANS OF FOOD for the less fortunate each year. 29 years of tradition in the Tampa Bay area & Southeast, Hallucination before Christmas continues to be the holiday event to which all others set their standards to. Witness the evolution of A HALLUCINATION BEFORE CHRISTMAS, as we invite you to join us with all our love, and best holiday wishes, because “WITH ALL OUR TRICKS, WE’RE MAKING CHRISTMAS”…..

Hallucination before Christmas will take place on Saturday December 14th, 2024

Hallucination Before Christmas doors are from 9pm-3am. We suggest getting there early to avoid the lines

Hallucination Before Christmas takes place at

THE CASTLE
2004 N 16th St
Ybor City / Tampa, FL 33605
(813) 247-7547
CastleYbor.com

Hallucination Before Christmas ages are
18 to Party – 21 to Drink

You can get tickets right from this website. Click here to purchase

Hard copy tickets are available at Hot Wax in Ybor City.

A select few people will also be selling them on the street

Hallucination before Christmas has a few VIP table sections, to request info, please fill out the form here

Tickets can be found in the “My Account –> Orders” Section of this website, They are also included in the email that was sent after your purchase.

Short answer is no. It is stated several times throughout the order process that All Ticket Sales are final.

Yes, you can sell your ticket if you wish. In rare circumstances we will change names on the tickets but we cannot change account owners. This means, buyer beware as tickets can only be checked in once. To request a name change on your ticket please email orders@hbcparty.com

We recommend printing out your ticket but, if you have no way to do so, we have been able to scan the ticket qr code from phones in the past.

On behalf of the thousands of hungry in our community, we at the Feeding America Tampa Bay food bank and Hallucination extend our heartfelt thanks to you, the party people, for your support.

We ask this you bring a minimum of three (3) items each person. As always, if you can bring more than three items, please do so.

With that said, please read the next item on what types of foods to bring.

The five (5) top items always most in demand are:
– Peanut Butter
– Canned Tuna
– Canned Vegetables
– Canned Fruits
– Breakfast Cereal

Here is a more complete list of suggested non-perishable food products that are of most use to the people Feeding America Tampa Bay serves.

PROTEIN
Meals in a can (w/pop top)
Canned meats, poultry, fish
Peanut Butter (plastic jars only)
Dried Beans

MILK
Non-fat Dry Milk
Canned Evaporated Milk

CANNED FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND JUICES (IN CANS OR PLASTIC)

GRAINS
Pasta/Macaroni
Boxed Macaroni & Cheese
Ramen Noodles
Rice
Oatmeal
Grain Crackers
Boxed or Bagged Cereals

OTHER
Canned Stew
Spaghetti Sauce w/Meat
Canned Soups
Canned Chili and Sloppy Joe

HEALTH AND BEAUTY CARE
Deodorant
Toothpaste and Toothbrushes
Bar Soap and Liquid Soap
Feminine Products
Shampoo
Baby Diapers or Baby Powder

Feeding America Tampa Bay is partnered with over 600 charities and churches that distribute this food to the hungry in West Central Florida through their pantry and soup kitchen programs. Through this network of partner agencies, our food bank dispenses the equivalent of over 250,000 meals for the hungry each week. Since we began in 1982, the food bank has distributed over 150 million pounds of food.

Hallucination Recordings, with your help, has raised over a thousand to two thousand pounds of food at each Hallucination before Christmas Party each year.

Don’t be a grinch… You may be charged more for entry to the party.

Everyone! We ask that even the talent (artists and djs), the staff at the club as well as party-goers ALL do their part.

Street Parking:

Between 17th & 18th St.’s on 9th Ave.
Between 14th & 15th St.’s on 8th Ave.
Between 5th & 6th Ave on 15th St.

Parking lots:

There are several parking lots & garages controlled by the City of Tampa which have plenty of parking and are short walks to the venue.

Please visit our HOTELS page for a list of hotels around the venue.

We have several sponsorship levels for the event. For all sponsorship opportunities, please email sponsors@hbcparty.com

As a tradition,our misfit Santa, and his beautiful Santa’s helpers will
be giving away gifts from our sponsors and label affiliates at the show. We ask for you to send anything that you feel is appropriate for our target market (50/50 male to female, 18-50 years of age).



Gifts can include, but are not limited to specialty items, compact discs, vinyl records, clothing, stickers, etc. The more the merrier. PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE. Many people forward us promos, and backstock that may not have sold, combining those items with some new releases, products and product lines to show also what they have currently or upcoming.

For More info & demographics, please email sponsors@hbcparty.com