Programme, not a slot list
DJs who can hold a room over time. Guest selectors, local depth and a floor built for listening as much as display.
Public concept exploration · Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
mYne presents
BACK2MYNE
It’s 3am on a Saturday morning. The clubs have closed. What if there were still a venue playing awesome dance music — somewhere chilled that feels like home?
8PM124AM8AM?
if we get separated,
meet here at 4am
meet here at 4am
Not a launch announcement. No premises, licence, opening date or formal partnership has been confirmed.
What’s established / what isn’t01
The concept
An after-party with somewhere to go.
The first version began with a thought experiment: what if Brisbane’s Chalk Hotel had been a dance club in 1998? It had a simple organising line: If we get separated, meet here at 4am.
That idea has grown into mYne: a proposed, interconnected venue for dancing, catching up, looking at work, eating a toastie, making plans and eventually finding a way home. Back2mYne is its signature late-night room.
The dance floor is the point. The rest makes the night more interesting, more legible and less disposable.
- 1998, imaginedChalk Hotel as a club
- Original ideaAn after-hours meeting point
- mYneOne venue, several ways through it
- Back2mYneProgressive house at its centre
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Sound & culture
Music that knows where it’s going.
Back2mYne is proposed as an intimate progressive-house room: deep, melodic, patient and physical. It has roots in late-1990s progressive trance, but it is not a nostalgia museum.
Think long-form DJ programming. Sets that can move through pressure, release, warmth and a little strangeness without racing to the obvious bit.
The title nods to the sociable, after-hours listening culture around the original Back to Mine compilations. Everything But the Girl — particularly the sensibility around No One Knows We’re Dancing — is a reference point, not an affiliation or a promise of a playlist.
Visual and cultural work
Installations, projections, exhibitions, independent performance and music-led events could change the building between nights.
A useful precedent
The Zoo remains a conceptual influence: a place able to host different kinds of music and creative activity under one roof.
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The spaces
There’s more to a night than the dance floor.
Each room has a job. The night starts with a drink; the music carries it through; then there is food, a place to sit and other things to see before it’s time to go.
Sterlings · proposed upstairs cocktail bar
Sterlings
An upstairs cocktail bar for the earlier part of the night. Warm, sociable and a little eccentric; refined without acting precious. Under the current concept, it would close at midnight, subject to approvals.
Back2mYne
The main room: serious progressive house, a proper sound system, lighting with restraint and a dance floor that stays human-sized.
Sterlings
An upstairs cocktail bar for the earlier part of the night, before the dance floor becomes the centre of everything.
Kitschen
A late-night canteen for toasties, coffee, water and a considered range of boutique soft drinks. A complimentary toastie and small coffee for eligible continuing Sterlings guests is an idea under test.
Creative spaces
Rooms for exhibitions, installations, projections, performances, cultural events and conversations away from the music.
Somewhere to sit
Seating, water, approachable staff and clear arrival and departure routes. A quieter part of the venue for getting your bearings before you leave.
All descriptions and visual devices on this page are conceptual. They are not architectural drawings, approved layouts or photographs of a venue.
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Help shape mYne
Tell us what would make this worth doing.
Feedback is for feasibility and programming. You can respond without subscribing to anything.
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Stakeholders & collaboration
A proposal that needs proper scrutiny.
mYne is worth examining because it proposes a specific cultural offer rather than another generic late-night room: progressive house with a deliberate after-party identity, supported by a changing creative programme and more practical ways to move through the night.
For businesses, property owners, operators, agencies and community organisations, the questions are concrete. Is there demand? Can a site work? What is the real operating cost? How would licensing, planning, transport, accessibility, staffing, security and responsible service requirements shape it? Could keeping patrons in a staffed venue reduce some of the friction of closing-time congestion? Those questions need evidence, not slogans.
Local businessesVenue operatorsArtists & organisersProperty owners & developersCommercial partnersLicensing & planningCommunity organisationsLate-night transport & safety
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Project status / FAQ
A concept with work left to do.
- Concept establishedThe original after-hours idea, musical focus and multi-room ambition are defined.
- Community consultationThis site asks people most affected by the idea to help test it.
- Feasibility under assessmentDemand, operations, cost and expert input require assessment.
- Site and approvals to be confirmedNo site, lease, approval or operating arrangement is represented as secured.
What has actually been developed?
A public concept, an initial programme identity and questions for consultation. The design purpose is to make the proposal specific enough to test.
What remains hypothetical?
Premises, lease, opening date, hours, licences, approvals, finance, partnerships, final layout, food offer and operations are not confirmed.
Could it trade until 7–8am?
That was part of the original ambition. Any actual late trading would depend on a suitable site, approvals, licensing, planning and compliance requirements.
How can I contribute?
Submit patron feedback, register a stakeholder enquiry, or opt in for future project updates. DJs, artists, curators, promoters and operators are welcome to state their interest.
How will feedback be handled?
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