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Archive for December, 2023
Hold onto your hats Sunny Coast, cos it’s gonna be a wild ride the next few months! Check out what our big guns of live music have coming up. Kings Beach Tavern (Caloundra), Solbar (Maroochydore) and Woodfordia (Woodford) have pulled some seriously good acts including Beddy Rays, The Terrys, Sons of The East, Custard, Regurgitator,
Multi-instrumentalist roots artist Dale Mallett is probably more of a Simba than a Mufassa. The Sunshine Coast native is always smiling from behind his guitar and djembe, with his “lion’s mane” hair, sweet and infectious nature, and feel-good, dub-reggae harmonies. “It was given to me from the boys in The Floating Bridges, a band I
Nick Grivas fell head first into love with the spoken word as a student at Balmoral State High School. “Poetry really came to me through hip-hop, but then we did poetry in English as a subject, and that’s when I realised I had a talent,” the Maroochy River local said. “I got the highest mark
Internationally-acclaimed actor and musician Russell Crowe is set to rock out the Miami Marketta in January for an “Indoor Garden Party”, featuring his band The Gentlemen Barbers and special guests Lorraine O’Reilly and Myth Of Her. Crowe said on X/Twitter: “Dear Gold Coast, We loved our sold out gig up there earlier in the year.
Wow what a year! Just four months ago, YELO was merely yet another ADHD-fuelled bright spark idea, being floated between two mates over some hippy-dippy cosmic cookies. And what a Pandora’s box it has turned out to be, with so many cool cats on the local music scene we’ve now come to love. The Sunshine
Longtime champion of Sunshine Coast live original music and community concert events, Jay Bishoff, will host an ‘originals’ and ‘covers’ event, with feature act, The Lyrical, on December 19. Acoustic roots and hip-hop sensation, The Lyrical, will join Jay as he brings back his successful “Full Cov-Orig” events, this time at Noosa Junction’s new burger
Sunny Coast’s newest alt-punk rock band, Acended, has only been playing for four months and already played Solbar and Tribe Clubhouse. Their first EP, “Sundried Daisies”, is due out January. This is a story about four young men destined for great things. Meet frontman Tony Thompson, 26, and his best mate Izaak Kracke, 22. The
Powderfinger’s Jon Coghill has been drumming up the crowds ahead of his second appearance in 13 years. Jon recently took up a Christmas challenge to play a full set with local swamp-blues musician, 8 Ball Aitken. Jon will play alongside the APRA-award nominated rocker at the Tramfest Christmas Festival on Saturday. The free community event
The vibrant shipping container playground known fondly to Sunny Coast locals as, “Nighquarter”, is set to be revitalised as “The Station”. Picture: The former “Nightquarter” site at Birtinya closed for a year after falling prey to a slow economy. Owners of the Birtinya live music venue, Chris and Lauren Hignett (main picture), who are also
This is a new segment with Ryan Barwick (right) from Gold Coast band Loose Goose. He will give us a wrap up of the Coast’s most Golden Gigs every month. While 2023 might be coming to a close with summer well on its way, the Gold Coast is going off with a bang this December as
