RESIDENTS Phil Morse, Terry Pointon, Herbie Saccani and Steve Thorpe play to another packed out night - sold out by 11.30, solid, wall-to-wall, both floors. Upstairs, while Seven gets in some cheap beers, Par-T-One's 'I'm so crazy' hits the floor - the crowd don't know whether to run and hide by the bar or let their hands and feet admit the stomp along anthem really is a winner.
Either way, Herbie and Steve are cooking up a storm by relentlessly battering the crowd with a mish-mash of tunes varying from breaks, electro, old school to pleasing all with the likes of Bassment Jaxx new single 'Where's your Head At?' and Plump DJ's 'Electric Disco'. In between frantic dancing we speak to a group of regulars who admit 'we only come here because we know everyone and the residents really know what we want!' No better reason for going out, is there?
Tangled are splashing out on guests now and then - coming up are Rennie Pilgrem, Three Drives, Hyper, Agnelli & Nelson and DJ Rascal. Hybrid and Koma & Bones played last month, Hybrid reckon Tangled is one of their favourite places to play, the best in Manchester. You'd agree during those moments of sheer electric atmosphere such as when Felix Da Housecat vs Arthur Baker's 'Quiet Riot' is dropped along with the increasingly popular Funk D'Void's 'Diabla'. A mashed-up skinny podium wannabe reckons 'you can hear anything from hardcore, techno and trance down here'. She's right as well.
And is there a guest DJ in sight tonight? Is there fuck, and it's been great. Tangled's home-grown plot to seduce those in search of something different in Manchester is working a treat.
TOM CAMPION