That Amazing Thing! takes its roots from all the best house parties we’ve ever been to.  Formed in 2000 around the nucleus of Manchester DJs Mark Haran and Francis Wooff and their friends it grew from house and cellar happenings across the city to become a club night with the intimacy and atmosphere of a house party.

Evolving through various guises That Amazing Thing! has been a Sunday evening session, a series of quarterly events and a monthly Saturday club night, however we found regular scheduling and operating on a commercial basis led toward compromises.  So the night's current form came into being - a range of formats as diverse as the music played there and the people who go.  Abandoning safety for freshness and spontaneity That Amazing Thing! takes place in various hidden underground spaces around Manchester and in other odd surroundings: from boats to micro festivals in the countryside involving camping and village halls.  These parties have free admission where possible or kept at cost where not, news of them is spread via word of mouth, through personal invites, by our mailing list and this website.  Our aim is to have fun whilst bringing cutting edge music to the dance-floor - from techno to hip hop, afrobeat to soul music, future sounds to classics, everything goes into the mix to create the warm, special vibe that has developed round the night.

At That Amazing Thing! we share the music we love with the open minded and friendly crowd who come along to our nights of high spirits, intimacy and crazy fun.

What we did last year...

Our quest to become Manchester's rarest but best loved night took a bit of a knock in mid 2009.  Not because we let the quality of our nights slip, but because we've did 3 events and several guest appearances in 5 months.  We started the year on a roll by doing absolutely nothing until March.  Then it all went wrong with our first Amazing boat trip of the year being another sell out riot.  Then in May we had our rather successful (OK, totally bonkers brilliant) Saturday night party at a secret central Manchester location.  We also had a great time guesting at other people's nights, favourites being another appearance for the lovely gang from Northern Comfort, for one of their Saturday not-rave ups at The Salutation in May and the fantastic Loft MCR party in October.  July saw another insane expedition to the hills for our annual camping trip, with peepz invading Cumbria from Manchester, York, Sheffield, that London and all manner of places.  We upped the ante on this version with a move to a new field and other interesting enhancements but, despite increasing the capacity, still went and sold it out.  The dates for this year and ticket details will be on our news page shortly so don't sleep.  Fortunately, after all this effort, we managed to redress the balance by doing nothing for the rest of the year.

Keep an eye on our news page because you know when one of our parties does come along you'd better not miss it.