Fourteen years in a smokey boat*

Some of the best Satruday nights of our life have taken place in Liverpool's Le Bateau, hope to the double-punch of Liquidation and Uptight. Liquidation, in fact, has been around so long it's well into its teenage years - having seen off attempts at clod-hopping cloning of its formula across the city, the rise and fall of the 'super-indie-club' Stomp and people asking the DJs 'got any Kasabian?'. Oh, and Cream.

In fact, the club turns 14 on Saturday with a special bunch of treats, as the club's MySpace describes:

Doors open as usual at 10.30pm, and there'll be a free glass of Liquidation punch and candy floss to greet you. Then playing upstairs @11.30pm will be a 30 minute set from local heroes "28 Costumes" (they've got a single out right now on Invicta Hi-Fi too).

All the residents will be out in force to play past, present and future floorfillers, then our special guest DJ downstairs is Richard Colburn of the mighty Belle and Sebastian. He'll be playing selection of his dancefloor mastercuts, ranging from indie, funk, dirty electro and reggae.

It's £5 in for everyone, but we're not doing tickets, so please just pay on the door.

It's probably best to not ask what's in Liquidation Punch.

* - we know, strictly speaking, the first Liquidations took place in Hardys rather than Le Bateau, but that looked a bit like a boat.