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- NOOSA alive! Festival 2026 Returns to Noosa with 10 Days of Music, Theatre and Literary Events
- Terella Brewing Company to close after five years as Sunshine Coast venue debate intensifies
- In Pictures: Pulp @ Riverstage, 24/2/2026
- The long arc of Australian live music culture and why venue closures are inevitable
- Solbar closing leaves a huge gap in Sunshine Coast touring circuit
Archive for February, 2026
Photo: Staff at Terella Brewing via Facebook The rural brewery will host a final run of events before shutting, adding to a growing list of venue losses across the region. UPDATE (Feb 27): Terella Brewing Company has released new figures outlining the economic impact of its closure, stating the venue spent more than $3 million
An unseasonably humid Brisbane night became a time capsule as UK megastars Pulp brought Britpop theatre back to life at Riverstage. Punters lose themselves to the music at Pulp in Brisbane last night. Part nostalgia, part revelation, the set leaned into the band’s strange ability to feel both distant and immediate. On a long-awaited return
Photo by Matt Warren. Words by Penny Brand. Over the past year, live music venues across Australia have begun quietly closing their doors. Each announcement lands like the sudden loss of a loved one. People rush to blame a cause: rising costs, changing crowds, management, council, bad luck or simply, “the times”. The instinct is
Local hip-hop artists Caelwhip and Notorious Nix prepare to support national touring act Illy outside Solbar. Photo: Ben Russoniello. The Maroochydore venue will shut after two decades as one of the region’s key touring rooms. Solbar has announced it will permanently close, removing one of the Sunshine Coast’s primary mid-capacity live music venues and leaving
Most people describe the Sunshine Coast through its daylight routines: surf checks at dawn, school pickups, market mornings and early dinners with the shutters down by ten. The assumption is that culture lives elsewhere and the coast is where you come to reset afterward. Compared to the Gold Coast, it’s often framed as the natural
People often assume touring shows land on the Sunshine Coast randomly. A promoter picks a room and hopes for the best kind of a deal. In reality, where a band plays here is usually determined by audience behaviour more than popularity. This region isn’t a single strip of venues, the Sunshine Coast live music venues
As Wendy James of iconic 80s pop-rock group Transvision Vamp took to the stage at Banana Bender Pub her fans knew their role. Touring Australia for the first time in decades, the UK band played to a crowd that had clearly lived with these songs for decades. Choruses like “Baby I Don’t Care” and “I
It was metal-core mania meets Aussie kitsch when In Hearts Wake, RedHook and The Amity Affliction played to a packed house at Banana Bender Pub on Friday night. Photos by Matt Warren, words by Penny Brand. Some of my most memorable gigs have happened in the rain: AC/DC at the former QEII Stadium in Brisbane
Beddy Rays. The Buoys. Letters to Lions. Vlads. Camino Gold. That’s how Alex by the Sea 2026 is kicking off winter on the Sunshine Coast, landing June 6 and 7 at Alexandra Headland’s Bluff Bar. Day One brings one of the strongest indie and surf-rock lineups the coast has seen. Headlined by Beddy Rays, the
Gympie-born heavyweights The Amity Affliction have sold out their Sunshine Coast show at Blackflag Brewing coinciding with the release of their ninth studio album House of Cards. The February 13 gig marks a significant return for the band to the region following their appearance at the Big Pineapple Music Festival in 2024. Now one of
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