IT TAKES something incredible for a club to last 20 years in this city.

So many clubs get bloated, stagnant, and lazy long before they reach the decade mark.

Some get closed, renovated and reopened under a new name to maintain an air of freshness.

Some never make it out the gate, and due to location, or better competitors, or just cruel luck, are trapped in an endless cycle of failure and grand openings.

We have the most vibrant nightlife outside of London, and as in any industry there are always going to be losers.

Safe to say The Garage doesn't fall into that category.

The most incredible thing about this Sauchiehall Street behemoth is that it's thrived in that period.

It's still packing them in, schoolnight after schoolnight.

You're guaranteed a decent crowd most weekdays, but weekends are ridiculous.

Saturday nights in here are a sea of twitching teenagers, all jacked up and giddy at the thought of what the night has in store.

It's all so naïve and, in a strange way, quite pure: as pure as boozy Britain gets, anyway.

On Saturday, the club hosts one of its frequent forays into the afterparty world, hosting the official aftershow for Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience Tour.

They've roped in Timberlake's tour DJ, Freestyle Steve, to take over in the main room, so that should mean no Bon Jovi for at least one night.

Other clubs have rough edges - SWG3's dark, sprawling, warehouse, 69 Below's palpable sense of danger - but even after all these years, The Garage remains like a youth club with really cheap vodka.

Long may that continue.