Music Bites
Photo: Spacey Jane via Facebook This week’s live music news is stacked, with TISM, The Living End, Spacey Jane, Jack Johnson and Lamb Of God all adding fresh weight to the Brisbane and Queensland calendar. Big touring news is piling up across Queensland, with TISM (or is it TSIM?) The Living End, Spacey Jane and
Beartooth will bring their Pure Ecstasy World Tour to Brisbane in January. Fit For A King and Volumes will also join the Australian run. The Ohio heavy rock band will play Fortitude Music Hall on January 31, 2027. The Brisbane show closes out a four-date Australian headline tour presented by Destroy All Lines. The run
Dope Lemon will headline the opening music session of Sessions Surf Festival on the Gold Coast, with Babe Rainbow, Mt Warning, Makua, Laurel Hill and Ella Fence joining the Miami Marketta lineup on May 23. The Gold Coast has always been good at turning surf culture into something bigger than the beach, and this one
Blak Day Out will return to Brisbane this winter, bringing Dan Sultan, Beddy Rays, Becca Hatch, Jem Cassar-Daley and Rox Lavi to The Princess Theatre. The all-ages First Nations music event will take over the Woolloongabba venue on July 24, as part of Open Season’s 2026 program. Presented by Open Season and Blak Social, Blak
OPIUO, pictured, will play at Blackflag Coolum this weekend with Tijuana Cartel and Raw Ordio. Photo: Facebook Your weekend guide to Horizon Festival, live music, art, family events and Mother’s Day across the Sunshine Coast. Mother’s Day weekend is bringing plenty of movement to the Sunshine Coast, with OPIUO, Tijuana Cartel and Raw Ordio landing
Photo: Kate Ellen Meakin, supplied Aldous Harding will return to Brisbane in November, with a headline show confirmed for The Princess Theatre. Aldous Harding has announced a 2026 Australian tour, with Brisbane included on the four-date run. The Aotearoa singer-songwriter will play The Princess Theatre in Woolloongabba on November 23, following shows in Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney. Her
Legendary Australian songwriter Don Walker will bring his new solo album tour to Eumundi and Brisbane later this year. Don Walker has announced a new album, “Love Songs”, and a national tour, with two Queensland dates confirmed for October. The Cold Chisel songwriter will play the Imperial Hotel in Eumundi on October 30, before heading
Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife – The Opera will have its world premiere at QPAC this May. One of Australia’s most enduring bush stories is about to walk onto the opera stage. The Drover’s Wife – The Opera will have its world premiere at QPAC on May 13, bringing Henry Lawson’s short story into a
This week in Queensland culture: pedal power is rolling into Coolum, Gympie songwriter Elke Louie has released “Lavender”, Horizon Festival is marking 10 years, and Brisbane and the Gold Coast have a few live music moments on the way. Here are a few scene notes worth keeping on the radar. Coolum pump track incoming A
Nambour’s creative underground has been getting a serious moment in the sun, with artist, poet, musician and street-art force Ben Hines helping drive a run of Horizon Festival projects through town. The Sunshine Coast hinterland hub has long had the bones of something stranger and more interesting than a tidy coastal arts postcard. Now, through
