Squiggle Dee Mash is set to return to Deansgate Locks after its infamous 1998-2002 reign.
The event, at Bee House, Deansgate Locks, promises live PAs from Howie Jacobs from Mr Wilson’s Second Liners, who will drum along to Sappo’s beats and a new collaboration between Mandy Wigby (Lionrock, Sister of Transistors, Architects of Rosslyn) and Kerin aka Che3kz.
The event plans to take place on Friday 21st October, and will feature two rooms of jungle, drum and bass, hardcore and hip hop music.
The event’s promoter, Ottilia Ordog, studied Media and Performance at University of Salford from 1996-99. She said: “I met up with uni friends after Covid and we all started talking about it.
“And when I tried our former residents Sappo, Mark XTC and DJ Prophecy, they were all well up for it. It all just started coming together like it was meant to be.”
Squiggle Dee Mash travelled around the Greater Manchester club scene throughout its lifetime, popping up at the likes of Generation X, Club Havana, UMIST and Underground.
Ordog, now 44, has gone on to work in the music industry, setting up her own music organisation called BeatBazaar, which runs music and cultural projects for young people. She continued: “When I started Squiggle Dee Mash during my second year at university, Manchester’s clubland was not very welcoming of drum and bass nights, and jungle music had a particularly bad reputation with venue owners.
“As well as the best jungle DJs and MCs, we always had live entertainment including dancers, drummers, fire breathers and jugglers…and we would decorate the venues we took over, often taking days to make everything by hand.”
Tickets are avaliable to purchase via the booking site.
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