The Scene
A packed crowd fills Blackflag Mooloolaba during The Drop Beers at Punk Piss Up earlier this month. Photo: Lewis Venz. You could walk straight past it if you didn’t know it was there. But a back-alley taphouse in Mooloolaba is filling up with free live music, and people are noticing. Penny Brand writes. Reached by
Singer and loop performer Ino will make his Peregian Beach Hotel debut on July 31 after recently relocating to the Sunshine Coast. A familiar name across the Northern Rivers circuit, the New Zealand-born artist has spent more than a decade playing venues around Byron Bay and Ballina. Also known as Ino Pio, he builds his
Photo: Rob Comiskey. Supplied. TAB betting facilities have been removed from five Comiskey Group hotels after the company refused to sign a new five-year agreement with Tabcorp. The 20-year partnership ended on July 1 after the previous agreement expired on June 30. Comiskey Group said the proposed new contract included higher weekly venue fees, reduced
After months of silence and speculation, a new collaboration between Raw Ordio and festival founder Mark Pico has sent the local pineapple radar twitching. Raw Ordio may have just dropped the tiniest Big Pineapple Festival Easter egg. The Sunshine Coast electronic act announced its new single, “Far Away”, featuring festival founder and director Mark Pico,
Karma Police will launch their debut EP, Pale and Blue, at Black Box Theatre in Nambour on August 15. Photo: Warwick Gow. Sunshine Coast alt-rock band Karma Police is already 50 per cent sold for its debut EP launch at Black Box Theatre on August 15. The strong ticket sales come after a packed Nambour
More than 180 illustrators, comic artists, zine makers and independent creatives will take over the Brisbane Showgrounds when the Brisbane Illustration Fair returns in July The two-day fair will be held at the John Reid Pavilion in Bowen Hills from 10am to 4pm on July 18 and 19. Entry is $2, with children under 12
Intercooler at Easy Tape Studios in Burnside, where the band has been working on a new 10-track album. Photo: Supplied. Nambour-raised Powderfinger drummer Jon Coghill has officially joined Queensland rock band Intercooler with a new album almost complete and their first live show together set for Mapleton. Coghill announced the news on social media after
RONA. headlines South System Vol. 2 at Fish Lane Arts Precinct on June 27. Photo: Supplied. A free open-air dance party is turning the space beneath Brisbane’s Fish Lane bridge into one huge communal dancefloor this Saturday. South System Vol. 2 lands at the Fish Lane Arts Precinct on June 27, bringing a night of
Festival-goers at Rolling Sets. Photo: Mitch Lowe, supplied. If The Beach Boys were allowed to invent “Kokomo”, YELO is officially claiming the stretch between the Sunshine Coast and Byron Bay as the ‘Bermuda Bahama Banana Republic Triangle’. It is not a recognised region, but it does contain an unreasonable number of festivals. From the Sunshine
Parkway Drive will return to Brisbane in August for two special shows celebrating landmark albums Killing With A Smile and Horizons. The Byron Bay metal band will play The Fortitude Music Hall on August 15 and 16 as part of its newly announced Killing Horizons Tour. Each city on the national run will receive two
