RHCP Show Roman Abramovich’s New Year’s Eve Party St. Barts

The Red Hot Chili Peppers played a private show at Roman Abramovich’s New Year’s Eve party at his $90 million estate on the hillside of Gouverneur Beach on St. Barts Island.

RHCP perform at Roman Abramovich's New Year's Eve Party

The New Year’s Eve party started at 10pm and carried on until 4am on New Year’s Day 2012. RHCP were on stage for the 2012 countdown and played for an hour until 12:45 a.m. The special guests included George Lucas, Mischa Barton, Marc Jacobs, Martha Stewart, Brett Ratner, Harvey Weinstein, Georgina Chapman and Jimmy Buffett. The 300 invite only guests were informed to dress “island chic.” and were treated to a show from RHCP, a buffet and a DJ.

So far the Red Hot Chili Peppers are known to have played By The Way and a cover of ‘Louie Louie’ as one guest reported, “At the end Toots (from Toots and the Maytals) came out and played ‘Louie Louie’ with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

By The Way (Clip)


Louie Louie with Toots from Toots and the Maytals


Prior to the show Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Chad Smith relaxed on St. Bart’s Gouverneur Beach. See the related articles below for photos…

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Thanks to lira, KittyKate and Simón Sumovic for contributing content to this article.