Music News
Sunshine Coast: Surf-rock crooner Ziggy Alberts, best known for his song “Laps Around theSun”, has opened up about his dealings with alcohol on international podcast Sober Awkward. Produced on the Sunshine Coast with British hosts Victoria Vanstone and Hamish Adams-Cairns, the podcast has risen to new heights in the past year and is up for Best
World: Gold Coast DJ Paul Fisher has shut down Hollywood Boulevard for a ticketed event which saw 12,000 people take over the famous Los Angeles strip. Fisher joined British electronic music producer and DJ Chris Lake for a sold-out set, “Under Construction”, at the iconic star-studded street where they played atop an ocean-themed stage, Titanic’s
Manly: Brisbane’s brightest queer breakout-artist since The Veronicas, “Hope D” will join Diesel, Chocolate Starfish, Robert Forster from the Go Betweens, and Rhonda Burchmore for an all-star line up at this year’s Wynnum Fringe Festival. The three-week-long pride festival, which runs November 15 to December 3, celebrates music, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and more. Hope
Giveaway: “Take me some place where there’s music and there’s laughter.” – Soderberg. While music is our specialty here at YELO, we also know that music and laughter go hand in hand when it comes to bettering your mental health. That’s why we’re excited to partner with the Sunshine Coast Comedy Festival to give away
Main picture Jon Coghill of Powderfinger attends a Nambour community event with Yelo music editor Penny Brand. The community push to “make Nambour great again” continues with Powderfinger drummer Jon Coghill taking up a Christmas challenge to dust off his famous drumsticks again. Coghill will play a full set with Sunshine Coast swamp-blues artist 8Ball
The Noosa Park Bench Ukulele group is looking for a new place to rehearse after being kicked off their usual meet-up spot. The group was banned from privately-owned Noosa Marina where they had been playing for six years. Noosa Shire Council denies any involvement in the group’s removal. Deputy Mayor Frank Wilkie said Council had
Coolangatta: California punk rockers Pennywise will fly the freak flag at “The Cooly” on December 6 for a side show as part of the Good Things Festival tour. The boys are touring the country with fellow emo juggernauts Fall Out Boy and Limpbizkit for alt-rock festival, Good Things, which hits Brisbane Showgrounds on December 3.
Brisbane City: British metal-core rockstars Bring Me the Horizon will do a royal lap of Australia next year descending on Brisbane Riverstage in April. The alt-rock band, with more than 13 million monthly Spotify listeners, recently headlined home-grown English festival, Download, where they performed to a whopping 100,000 fans. But with more than one billion
Feature: A Buderim high school teacher who moonlights as a professional musician is calling for an independent body to make the local music industry a fairer one. Drew Wilson, whose latest pop-folk hit “Holding Onto You” is enjoying commercial success, said many artists continually felt unsupported when it came to the Council-run Caloundra Music Festival
Woolloongabba: Punk rock girl-gang Otoboke Beaver will play at Princess Theatre on October 22. The pint-sized rockers, from Kyoto, are a force to be reckoned with offering a thrilling live show, combining confrontational performances with off-kilter compositions and incredible musicianship. Formed at Kyoto University’s music club in 2009, the all-female hardcore quartet has gained fans
