Sunshine Coast Music & Culture Magazine

Music. Community. Connection.

YELO is for the barefoot dreamers, the surfers, the skaters, the gig-goers, the late-night dancers, the kids in the garage bands, the community choirs, the punters who never miss a show, and anyone who believes that music makes life better.

YELO began in 2023 – just me, my laptop, a love for live music, and the quiet hope to make the Sunshine Coast feel connected again.

After the lockdown era, everything felt strangely distant. People were talking less, scrolling more, and the community didn’t feel like home anymore.

Creatives and small business owners were separated and working in silence. Everyone seemed to be searching for something real again.

YELO was my answer to that.

I wanted to fill the community halls with music again. Bring strangers together. Give artists a platform – and locals a reason to go out.

I wanted to put the soul back into the Coast, one gig, one story, one night at a time.

What started as an online gig calendar slowly became a tribe. YELO soon became the family I didn’t know I needed. Because music heals and reconnects us. It pulls us back into the world and makes us feel human again.

Photo by Ben Russoniello for YELO: Big Pineapple Festival revellers, 2024

Today I’m also secretary of the Sunshine Coast Music Industry Collective, and share local music news on ABC Sunshine Coast Radio every Tuesday with Sarah Howells (Triple J vintage!).

If you’re here with us, you’re part of the family too. Thanks for supporting local, showing up, and helping rebuild a community lifeline for the Coast, one gig at a time.

Let’s fill the halls again, together.

YELO | Music Editor, Penny Brand

YELO has previously partnered with local venues, festivals and cultural organisations in support of live music and independent culture.