In The Que: Celebrating the Que Club

In the Que: Celebrating the Que Club is a film about one of the great live and rave and dance venues in the United Kingdom. Built as the Methodist Central Hall and opened in 1903, this Grade II * building would become home to a different type of congregation. The building was bought in 1992 by Billy Gaff, former manager of Cream, The Faces and Rod Stewart, who also owned the Marquee Club in London (he used the q, u & e from Marquee for the name), who wanted to turn it into a live music venue. It quickly became the centre for Rave and Dance music in Birmingham though, something in part to do with the incredible building's layout and space. With an imposing central hall, complete with a huge organ, and steep, terrifying balconies that would shake as clubbers danced on them, the Methodist Central Hall also had some 30 rooms and miles of corridors and roof space in which to lose yourself listening to other DJs or just meeting other clubbers. It was unique in being able to have 2000 c