now, and each week has a 'featured artist' from pop history. A resident DJ at Cruz, Almighty Donald, takes his name from the namesake Almighty Records as he often plays and mixes music produced by the company. Cruz is owned by three people equally, one of whom owns Napoleons, a bar club also located in the gay village. The general manager of Cruz is currently Gerrard Woods and the assistant manager is Paul Tuck. John Cooper is the bar manager, who also plays the resident drag queen known as 'Miss Cara' where at weekends, announces the DJ and welcomes any special guest PAs that may be taking place. Ben Ramsden serves as promotion manager, having taking over in 2015. Incidents During Gay Pride 2008, one phase of the power failed in the club leaving limited disco lighting in operation and no music playing for about 20 minutes. Staff at the club managed to bring most of the power back on-line, however several sets of disco lights and bar lights were non-functional on one of the clubs busiest nights of the year. The power failure was caused by a failure of the main supply to the building. On New Year's Eve 2008, a small fire broke out on stage shortly after midnight which was caused by a mis-firing show pyrotechnic. Staff evacuated the club and police attended. No injuries were reported and around 20 minutes later the large group of party-goers which waited outside the main entrance were allowed back in. The club remained open well into the early hours with the capacity crowd partying until well after 7am. DJs Cruz has many resident DJs on rotation, all playing varying types of dance music, but only two of them play regularly in Sub. Cruz rarely invites non-resident DJs to play at the club. Almighty Donald - Hi-NRG, Commercial Dance. Rob James - Trance in 'Sub' and Commercial Dance on the main floor. DJ Spook - Hi-NRG, Commercial Dance. Flash Tony - Commercial Dance and Bouncy house. Darren Leasley - Commercial Dance. Little Miss Natalie - Trance and Bouncy house in 'Sub'. Dino - Hi-NRG, Inferno (70s, 80s, 90s and Now). See also Manchester's Gay Village Queer As Folk Almighty Records References External links Cruz 101 - Official website Real Manchester - Photos from the club Nightclubs in Manchester Music venues in Manchester History of Manchester LGBT culture in Manchester LGBT nightclubs