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Newcastle’s community-owned music The Globe has won a second award for its determination to keep live music going during the pandemic. It is the winner of the special Lockdown Innovation Award in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards announced last night (26 July) in an online presentation streamed from Pizza Express in Soho, London. Earlier this month […]

We are complying with the latest Government and industry COVID-19 guidelines to ensure the safety of everybody in our venue. We need each person who comes to The Globe to do their bit and help make this a safe and welcoming place. Please read and take note of the following arrangements: If you have symptoms […]

Our determination to keep live music going during the pandemic has been rewarded with a national award. Following a public vote, The Globe was declared the Small Community Co-op of the Year 2021. The Awards are organised by Co-operatives UK – the network for Britain’s thousands of co-operative businesses – and sponsored by The Co-operative […]

Newcastle’s community-owned music venue The Globe has been shortlisted for a Co-op of the Year Award – a prestigious accolade that honours co-ops across the UK who have shown a commitment to the co-operative principles, stepping up and supporting their communities during the pandemic. Dave Parker, co-chair of the co-op that owns The Globe, said, […]

The Globe to receive £25,000 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund The Globe is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund This award will allow The Globe to continue its busy programme of livestreaming and to welcome audiences to […]

Help grow our online presence You many already know that we have streamed over 100 events since lockdown, that the gigs have been viewed by many thousands of people, and that we have generated more than £40,000 for performers. These are tremendous achievements. We would like to expand our success. To do this, we need […]

[press release 4 March 2021] The UK’s first community-owned music venue is about to celebrate its 100th livestream performance on Sunday 14 March. The Globe in Newcastle upon Tyne, which is run by a co-op committed to live music, has been developing livestreaming during the pandemic. Now it broadcasts 15 events a month including jazz, […]

Fancy watching something a bit different over the festive season? How about one of the past livestreamed performances from The Globe? We have a video library where you can download links to high quality videos of selected gigs. There is a range of folk, jazz, rock and classical events. We will be adding new videos […]