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…

Fast forward again to 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 Internet E-Flyers, Websites (with Graphic Designers Monk & Clrh2O, graphic artist Drone, and internet artist Bryan at Random Mutimedia, the best in lights and sound with Eric of E-Tech, and Mike Dooley, special lightshows, our vital street team members, and to top it off digital visual graphics, and video from Monk & Berkeley of Hallucination On Film.

As we stepped up production, so did the excitement. Friends and affliliates 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. Eleven years in the building, nine 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 evolutiuon 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”…..