Can't remember if it was that year, but...
Host: "Thank you for your performance, what is your new year's resolution?"
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: "Not to work with that soundman again!"
The New Year coverage as we know it now on BBC1 began in 2004/05 which was the first year it went under the New Year Live banner, introduced by Tash Kaplinsk with the fireworks at midnight. I think the first few years were introduced from Somerset House with vox pops, nothing especially complicated. Later in the decade it became a bigger show, I think the earliest it ever started was 10.50 and they had bands in and it was a thing in its own right. But then in the past decade it was slimmed down to just topping and tailing the fireworks, in recent years with the concert around it.
Before 2004/05 we had all kinds of rubbish on New Year's Eve. In fact between the seventies and the nineties the longest-running regular show on New Year's Eve was Clive James who did it for seven years from 1988/89 to 1994/95. Before and after that, pretty much anything went, the last year before the fireworks in 2003/04 BBC1 simulcast the BBC Scotland show (though they were allowed to call it Hogmanay Live that year, when they did it before in 1998/99 it was called New Year Live to much disgust in Scotland).