Not wishing to make the promoters of Tangled feel old on their birthday and all, but ten years is a heck of a long time to be running a club. Even a club as consistently full and exciting as this one. Unless I'm very much mistaken the only club that's lasted longer in Manchester at this point is Monday night at The Ritz, which is now rather staggeringly into its nineteenth year.
"It's pretty amazing," confirms Tangled promoter Phil Morse sitting in a bar in Chorlton sipping an orange juice. "And what's more amazing is that some of our crowd have been coming before then even, since before we were called Tangled!"
There are many possible reasons why this club has lasted so long but the key, and don't take this the wrong way Tangled, is that you've never been trendy. And in not being trendy you can therefore never go out of fashion.
"You're right," agrees Phil. "There's no fad involved in what we do. In many respects we're like a pub. All our crowd know that at 10pm every Saturday, Tangled will be open and ready."
A lot of clubs could learn from the Tangled approach to music and concentrate more on the their crowd than being on the cover of music magazines.
The Electric Chair, for example, also has this approach and it reaches its eighth birthday at the beginning of August. Other nights didn't and are currently residing in the "where are they now" file. C'est la vie.
"We know half the people that come to Tangled," continues Phil, "and believe me there's a whole scene that exists outside of the club. For example, some of our regulars organise barbeques or days out to Blackpool and then invite our DJ's to come along and play - which is just like doing the club except it's being organised by the clubbers themselves!"
Ask Phil what are the highlights of ten years of promoting and there are so many he almost can't think of any.
"I think organising an event in Ibiza was one," he says finally. "We did a one-off party and I didn't realise in advance that half the club was coming over to it. Most of us got the same flight over which was weird. I think that was one of the few nights when the club was quiet in Manchester because we'd taken most of the crowd away."
As the regualrs know, it's not all just techno and house that gets played at Tangled, for upstairs the breaks room, spearheaded by Steve Thorpe, has been championing the non 4:4 beat for nigh on seven years now.
"A lot of our guest DJ's won't play anywhere else," says Phil. "Rennie Pilgrem, Koma & Bones and Hybrid love it up there." The other secret weapon of the club is co-promoter and fellow resident Terry Pointon who, on Phil's admission, is very much the face of Tangled.
"He's our rock star figure," he points out. "He's always the first one on the danccefloor and the last one home at the end of the night. I don't know how he does it but he's the life and soul of the party."
Those looking to get caught up in the madness of the tenth anniversary have both tonight and tomorrow to do so.
Tonight sees the club dedicate the dancefloor to one of its ever-successful Decade nights where residents Phil and Terry play Tangled classics old and new for their crowd.
And it's not just any old classics that you'll hear at clubs round the country. These are records that always rock the dancefloor at the club which makes them the true sounds of the underground.
Tomorrow night sees our horoes back on the decks again this time joined by Lange and Mekon who'll be playing on through to six in the morning.
Brace yourself. It's going to be a long weekend.
RICHARD HECTOR-JONES