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Thanks for coming to see us at our cute, comprehensive, fly website. We update it regularly with details of all our antics & plenty of cool things to look at & read. It’s also the first place we announce all our upcoming, independently promoted clubnights, fashion shows, A-list events, art exhibitions & any other mad stuff we think is astonishing.
We really hope you’ll find time to scroll the pages & that you enjoy your visit. If you have a bit of time on your hands & you are interested in what the Club means to Newcastle, get your mind blown by checking out our History & Culture tag above.
We open below with the latest news & then further down the page, the site properly kicks off.
Here are the top 4 Breaking News Stories around the Club at the moment…
1. We have updated all our Spring shows in Upcoming Events. We have returns from all of last seasons really successful independently promoted clubnights & a whole lot more. There’s charity stuff, fashion stuff, Soundsystems on the way, etc. etc…
It’s a top quality diverse lineup, because that is what our Club is about. Keep checking back as new shows will be added as soon as they confirm.
2. St Valentines Eve… next Saturday night through til 5am Sunday morning!
Now you all know about our insane & far out parties… Well, having been totally blown away by what we presented for both Halloween & New Years Eve, get ready for next weekend & the next major event in the WHQ mad, dancefloor calendar…
It’s our first big do of the year & we are going all out. With two contrasting floors featuring two contrasting styles of music. As to the decor, as usual on our big nights, it’ll be the way only we would ever be obsessive enough to deliver. This is a full on WHQ spectacular bash, with all that goes with that.
The last time you saw so many fresh flowers you were face down, naked, in a Summer meadow, out of breath, with a sweat on & a little bit of soil & a somewhat topical, though partially squashed daisy, lodged in your warm cleft…
See the entry in Upcoming Events for the full jiggytastic details on each far out floor.
3. Animals are cool & they enrich your life. Here at World Headquarters, we have a long history of using a variety of animals in our publicity, so we thought it was about time we got us a mascot. This is little Ronnie, she is a Pharoah Hound puppy & will be featuring on many of our flyers from now on. This snap of her was taken 2 weeks ago.
As you can see at the moment she is still just a little baby, but she will grow along with the Club, over the next 15 or so years. Her ears (which as you can see in the photo above were all floppy…) have now started to stand up like some kind of crazy & astonishing bat… This apparently is happening one ear at a time (as demonstrated in this photo below, taken last Monday).
When we got home at last from this last weekends shenanigans, we were very pleased to see that her second ear is now playing ball & has just started to stand up. Her first one is now up like a proper batwing & for a moment we thought the second one might not go for it… But, check this snap taken at 6.30 on Sunday morning!!
We will be giving her a little section all of her own in ‘Stuff we like’, so you can track her development & incredible rate of growth. She is going to be a very big hound indeed…
She is also such a complete cutie & we all just love her to bits x.
4. There Are Major Business Opportunities Coming Up… within our building.
Our 7 year association with Globe City Gallery has come to an end & we are on the hunt for for new people to work with. We have now begun the pitch hearing process, so if you have a bright, preferably arts based idea (though we are open to almost anything) & could use between 3 & 6 thousand square feet of subsidused, affordable, City centre space on the floors above the Club, drop us a line.
We now have only three separate floors left, as the Fourth floor is now spoken for (exciting details to follow…) all with stair & lift access.
There are some more gallery type snaps of the space, in the Curtis Mayfield House tag at the top of this page & here is a photo of some of the space, to give you an idea just how large it actually is.
Multiply what you see here by about six & you’ll get the general idea…
We are up for almost anything & are happy to work with co-ops & groups of people, artists, musicians whatever. We are particularly interested in charitable, artistic & spiritual ideas that will improve the City, so it’s up to you really.
Whatever you propose cannot last more than 7 years, as we like to work in nice ‘biblical’ chunks of time so we can do lots of different things over the life of the Club. Also please think your idea out before making arrangements to come & see us, as our time to hear pitches is limited.
Also if you are a member of WHQ, you are welcome to just drop us a line, telling us what you would like to see happen with it, if it was up to you.
Any questions etc we’re at info@welovewhq.com
That was our news, now here is our site...
A warm welcome, to the World Headquarters.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…
This is the one place where you can find out all about Curtis Mayfield House Independent Multiracial Arts Venue, which is home to World Headquarters Music Club. It also features stuff about Newcastle life that you may find useful, if you’re dropping in from out of town & coming to visit up here with your chums.
There is a lot of info on this site, all of it super easy to find and read. Do feel free to have a good mooch about & see how we’ve got on, in our never ending, obsessive quest to make a difference, by adding lasting value & diversity to Newcastle’s nightlife.
Who we are…
Basically the deal with us is, we’ve run clubs up here longer than anyone else & have stayed completely independent, evolving outside of & parallel to, what most people perceive to be the Newcastle ’scene’. WHQ is nothing like any other place in this City.
We use the established media as little as possible, exisiting on word of mouth, recommendation & just being generally friendly, positive & consistent in our things. We operate firmly outside the coroporate mainstream, in terms of both the music & type of events we promote at WHQ Club & the cutting edge art projects we facilitate.
To find out more about WHQ Club or Hiring the Venue click the tags at the top of the page & they will tell you all that & all about our fantastic weekends, top notch coming events & our unique, spiritually uplifting groove. All you will need to know is on this site.
Hitting the History & Culture tag will give you a an idea of how we built a girl friendly, all inclusive, credible & cosmopolitan alternative to Newcastle’s stereotyped nightlife, out of 80’s boredom, a desire for racial harmony, hard work & a big box of fab records.
Please feel free & Contact Us with anything you’d like to know or say, we’d love to hear from you. All pictures shown on the site are captioned & will enlarge as you click them.
Also don’t forget to check the link to our Photo Albums where you can get a good idea of what we represent, snaps of assorted people monkeying about the Club & the way things look.
