The Scene
Musicians across South-East Queensland have paid tributes to two Fortitude Valley live music venues, King Lear’s Throne and Bad Luck Bar. Owner of both venues Ken Parry announced earlier on social media that the venues would be shutting up shop. They join Gold Coast’s Burleigh Bazaar, which sold for $4.4 million earlier this year to
Liquid Lyrics is a place where the Sunshine Coast’s best word slingers come together to share their poetic prowess. There’s even prize money up for grabs! 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
Internationally-acclaimed actor and musician Russell Crowe is set to rock out at the Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast in January. He’s here for an “Indoor Garden Party”, featuring his band The Gentlemen Barbers and special guests Lorraine O’Reilly and Myth Of Her. Crowe posted on X/Twitter: “Dear Gold Coast, We loved our sold out
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
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
British rock giants Foals will take to the stage at Fortitude Valley Music Hall next month after the Sandstone Point version, Heaps Good, was reimagined to Secret Sounds. Jimmy Smith spoke with Yelo music editor Penny Brand ahead of his show on January 2. Sitting at home in sunny California, Foals rhythm guitarist Jimmy Smith
Adam Niven is Solbar’s artist-in-residence this month. His show officially opens tomorrow night. The Mountain Creek designer, who moonlights as a drummer, has created designs for many local bands. Some of them include Chamber Lane, Catching Salmon, Likeside, Dunnill Blues, The Vee Bees and SUBSKRYPTION. “It will be my first solo show and I’ve put
It’s AusMusic T-Shirt Day on November 30 and to kick it off YELO has hand-picked some of the best Sunshine Coast music merch. Fore more check out our YELO marketplace. Peace Run Records I’m a self-confessed merch freak. And this AusMusic T-Shirt Day I’ll be sporting my YELO trucker hat and Peace Run Records tee.
From punk-rock dive bars to heritage-listed theatres – charm and character drips from the corners of these Brisbane live music venues. Brisbane is the birthplace of Powderfinger, The Saints, Violent Soho, Ball Park Music, Regurgitator and the Go-Betweens. It stands proud with these big-time music names, and so too has some of the best live
