When: Every Saturday, 11pm – 3.30am (3am Bar)
Where: club alter ego, 105-107 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DD, 01612369266
£6 entry, £5 members

“For anybody with an interest in music, Canal Street doesn’t cut it, with Drive-By-Tanning victims pouting to Generic House. Here, however, it’s Le Tigre, The Kaiser Chiefs and Green Day. Hole are cannonised; Deborah Harry is Yoda. There really is no better sound to ricochet zealously around to when Greenwich WKD Time kicks in.” – Attitude Magazine

“Manchester's most up-for-it party crowd” – Manchester Evening News

It’s not just Hard-Fi living for the weekend, as Poptastic on Saturdays sees Manchester’s gay, lesbian and bisexual party monsters go on the rampage, fuelled by an explosive cocktail of Cheeky Vimtos and Shag Tags.

Held at the Alter Ego, Poptastic is split into two rooms. On a night like this, as Kylie once trilled, connoisseurs of pop, cheese and tunes worthy of an S-Club Party should head – step lively! – to the Kitsch Bitch Lounge; which is manna from the Gods for anybody who’s ever attempted a taxing Steps routine or sent their drink spilling while scrambling to get on the dancefloor for Tiffany. Like a pop Xanadu, it creams together the best tracks from the ‘80s to the present day. Pop for your hearts and hips, expect to shake your thang to the likes of Bananarama, Britney Spears, Her Madjesty and Girls Aloud.

For indie scamps who know their Ash from their Elbow, the Indie Playground provides Manchester’s best – not to mention only – alternative gay night. Indiesters, riot girrls and electro-lovers can cast a Kohl’d eye over each other to a peerless soundtrack of anthems by the likes of New Order, Pulp, Le Tigre and Placebo. Rock kids are in nirvana, as you’ll hear classics by the likes of Garbage and NIN. Always ahead of the game, you won’t miss out on the latest bands to get your Converses itching towards the dancefloor, whether it’s from the Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Scissor Sisters or Franz Ferdinand.

Boasting the magic elixir of cheap drinks, it’s your first stop to boogy; make friends; laugh; find love; or simply get laid more often than cheap lino.

Poptastic Top Ten Floorfillers
1) Le Tigre - Deceptacon
2) No Doubt – Just A Girl
3) Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
4) Goldfrapp – Strict Machine
5) Hole – Celebrity Skin
6) Placebo – Teenage Angst
7) Blondie – One Way Or Another
8) Dolly Parton – 9 To 5
9) Fischerspooner – Emerge
10) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With The Night

TWO ROOMS: In the Kitsch Bitch Lounge, pop-picker John Hamilton ramps up the revelry with an unbeatable pop soundtrack, while in the Indie Playground, DJ Si Parker knows precisely how to hit the right alternative buttons.