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::STOP PRESS::
Doublejo(H)ngrey have now closed their dooors and stopped trading.
Various members are pursuing various alternative music-making prey, so never fear. Thanks to all for all your support.
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Monthly Residency and Clubnight.

They say you can’t fit a square peg into a round hole. But what about a jagged-edged, shape-shifting, undulating polyp of a peg, with a gigantic bassbin, a distortion pedal and a cheep strobe light? Fit that into a tired, beige, mass-produced, NME-reading little grief-hole?

Basically, we’ve become bored of trying to force our unorthodox musical peg into the dreary indie nights of the Northwest. Playing with cold, dry guitar/hair-do bands who and people who think it’s quirky and interesting to say they like pop music. (There are, of course, some exceptions. Nights like Fiction Non Fiction, Brenda at Islington Mill and Constant Friction. Noble bands like Granby Row, Laymar, Valerie, Duty Now, and Mr. Fist, fighting to stem the flaccid tide.) We’ve decided to call the puerile twats’ bluff and put on a decent night. The sort of night we want to play.

So from now on, the last Saturday of the month is our night. Doublejo(H)ngrey night: Lost and Broken.

An intimate venue with dim lighting, blacked out windows and visually unnerving 1920s horror films projected on the back walls. The only light comes from a few slowly pulsing strobes and one dim red bulb. From the excessively powerful soundsystem all kinds of sonic delights exude: forgotten disco instrumentals, discordant guitar squealing, pulsating dub, deep techno, primitive blasts of punk hate, brain drilling electro and dark melancholy folk.

A guest band emerges from the gloom. They might play shuffling, shoe-gazing electronic instrumentals; jerking rhythmical punk; full reverberant guitar deconstructions; unearthly folk psychadelia. A guest DJ plays, free from any restraints of genre, tempo or context. Next Doublejo(H)ngrey play live. A different set each month – ring masters and ring leaders. A live laptop set: dark electronic rhythms; Japanese influenced experimentation or minimal leftfield techno, The DJs spin on into the night, a free-for-all of all genres from all ages, with a relentless subcurrent of menace and rhythm.

Doesn’t sound like your cup of tea? Fuck off then. You’re not invited.

Lost and broken exists to pull together the disparate strands of Manchester’s music scene. All styles represented. All the flaccid, lifeless audio-sputum trampled underfoot. Hard-Fi fans need not apply.

Twenty one bands whose records might get played:
Sonic Youth, Kraftwerk, Devo, Pink Floyd, Roots Manuva, Captain Beefheart, Lee Scratch Perry, Can, Joy Division, Smog, Violent Femmes, Two Lone Swordsmen, Arab Strap, Neil Young, Four Tet, Echo and the Bunnymen, Aphex Twin, Mogwai, The Rapture, DJ Shadow, Billy Brag.