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online: Play More Jazz! course
10-week online course exploring the techniques employed by the great jazz musicians Our long-running jazz improvisation course continues online and totally Covid-safe. As usual the course is led by Steve Glendinning, a superb guitarist who was a regular tutor at Sage Gateshead. Tuesdays: 19:30 – 21:00 online Next term starts Tuesday 21 September (Don’t worry […]
The Globe wins second award in a month
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 […]
Safe and welcoming
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 […]
The Globe wins national co-op business award
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 […]
International Jazz Day & The Globe anniversary
30 April is International Jazz Day and the day (in 2014) that Jazz.Coop bought The Globe to create the first music venue in the UK to be owned by a co-operative committed to jazz. Normally we would have a party but this year we can’t. Instead we are livestreaming a gig from The Globe featuring […]
The Globe shortlisted in national awards
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 awarded second grant from Culture Recovery Fund
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 live music at The Globe from your home
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 […]
100 gigs streamed from The Globe to the World
[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, […]
Hand to Mouth – review
Hand to Mouth, livestream 8 November 2020 Review by Lance Liddle, Bebop Spoken Here Lindsay Hannon (vocal); Bradley Johnston (guitar). No doubt about it, Hand to Mouth are a class act, in fact they don’t come much classier. Bradley can turn his hand to just about anything from Django to Pat Metheny or, as was […]