Archive for August, 2023
Yelo music editor Penny Brand has officially gone country… here’s a little video round-up of our sublime weekend adventure to the Gympie Music Muster!
Gympie: Holy heck Gympie Muster Muster 2023, what a ride! This place is like country music on steroids, if you can get any more country than that! The Akubras were out by day and the Driza-Bones came out by night. This place is an actual village of its own, deep in the dreamy Amamoor state
Eddie Ray – Silence of the Jams is an epic independent film with an entirely original soundtrack made by an all-star Sunshine Coast cast. Equal parts movie and live music performances, Eddie and his Band of Legends, perform the soundtrack live alongside the screening. Award-winning artist Eddie Ray has created a comic film exploring a visual
Gympie: Yelo music editor Penny Brand is off to the Gympie Muster Muster this weekend – Saturday August 26 and Sunday August 27. She reckons Taylor Moss, Wolfmother, Ash Grunwald and Sunny Cowgirls are ones not to be missed! Country people are renowned for their storytelling so be sure to hit her up with a
Eumundi: Australian roots musician and local resident Xavier Rudd (pictured front with son Jundi) has visited students of a Sunshine Coast children’s rock school to give some encouraging words in the lead up to their upcoming festival. Eumundi School of Music pupils were rehearsing at the Imperial Hotel last night in preparation for Sunshine Sounds
Sunshine Coast Council has revealed its plans to revive Nambour’s historic CBD in keeping with its long-term commitment to boosting the region’s music and entertainment industry. The Nambour Place Plan hopes to turn the inner-city hub into a “naturally beautiful, creative and culturally active” town which they’ve named the ‘heart of the hinterland’. Council says
Powderfinger drummer and Peregian resident Jon Coghill has surprised acclaimed-Brisbane author Trent Dalton with an authentic Brisbane City Council “Vulture Street” street sign. The legendary Brisbane band met with fans at the city’s Palace Barracks Cinema last night to celebrate 20 years of its fifth studio album, Vulture Street, with a one-off screening of These
Sippy Downs: Bottom’s up uni students! It’s official. The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) today confirmed to Yelo it would move from a ‘dry campus’ to a ‘sticky’ one allowing students to soon purchase alcohol at the university. Rumours had been circulating at the Sippy Downs campus that an open-air stage, offering live music,
Verrierdale: Hidden in thick rainforest, under a story-book-like full moon, and at the back of an old community hall is one of the most high-vibe events on the Sunshine Coast. As it fills with a crowd of top-class music lovers – from industry professionals mingling after work to everyday music lovers, and a sprinkling of
Eumundi: Layla Barnett and her band will showcase her incredible talent at this year’s Sunshine Sounds Festival from September 2-3. The local First Nations singer songwriter, who is just 14-years-old, has collaborated with ARIA and National Jazz Award-winning composer and saxophonist Zac Hurren for her debut album, “Beneath the Surface”, to be released at the
