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Ecca Vandal in Brisbane, a Maleny festival weekend and The Church with an orchestra: five reasons to head out across Queensland and the Northern Rivers. Updated November 4, 2026. One pick from each YELO region for November 6–8. Use our rolling gig guides for the wider calendar. 1. Ecca Vandal · BRISBANE Friday, November 6
Karnivool are taking In Verses on the road again this December, with three shows across YELO’s patch in Brunswick Heads, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. Updated September 2026 The Perth progressive rock heavyweights will play Hotel Brunswick on Friday, December 4, Distillery Road Market in Eagleby on Saturday, December 5, and Blackflag Brewing on
Sleeping With Sirens. Photo: Supplied. Sleeping With Sirens will kick off their 2027 Australian headline tour in Brisbane with State Champs and Boston Manor. Updated October 2026 Sleeping With Sirens will play The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Saturday, April 3, 2027, opening their biggest Australian headline run to date. The post-hardcore band will
QMusic CEO Kristy Ellis. Photo: QMusic. Queensland’s peak music industry body is reducing staff and moving to a leaner operating model as its funding mix changes. Updated September 2026 QMusic, the organisation behind BIGSOUND and the Queensland Music Awards, is restructuring its operations and reducing staff as it adjusts to changes in arts funding. The
A sound sculpture in a Townsville garden, an audio walk beside a creek and an installation inside an Ingham house are part of a festival that refuses to stay in one town. Updated September 2026 PUNQ Festival is spreading contemporary art across four very different North Queensland settings: Townsville, Magnetic Island, Hinchinbrook and Charters Towers.
Tash Sultana. Photo: Facebook. Tash Sultana is returning to Australian stages in 2027, but Queensland is absent from the seven dates announced so far. The April and May run starts in Auckland and Wellington, then heads to Thirroul, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. There is no Brisbane, Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast show on Frontier
A crowd fills Blackflag Mooloolaba for The Drop Beers. Photo: Lewis Venz. NSW has passed a bill to strengthen protections for live music venues, concerts and festivals. Queensland has its own nightlife reform plan, but the move across the border raises a question for the rooms putting bands on here: what changes next? Queensland update:
CMC Rocks QLD festivalgoers. File photo. Eric Church, Brooks & Dunn and Ashley McBryde will headline CMC Rocks QLD’s 20th-anniversary festival at Willowbank Raceway, with tickets on general sale from Friday, September 25. The country music festival returns to Willowbank Raceway, west of Brisbane in Ipswich, from March 19–21, 2027. Its new bill stretches from
Crowd at the Gympie Music Muster. Photo: Supplied. YELO began with Sunshine Coast bands, venues and gig guides. Now our Queensland pages connect readers with local shows, artists and rooms from Brisbane and the Gold Coast to regional centres, while the Coast remains our home base. YELO across Queensland THE MUSIC MAP JUST GOT BIGGER.
Brisbane has lost some familiar record-store shopfronts in recent years, but the city still has serious places to buy vinyl, from old-school CBD institutions to tiny specialist shops with deep crates and very specific obsessions. Updated September 2026 Brisbane’s record-store map has changed, but the good stuff is still there. Rocking Horse has been selling
