The first rule of Fruit Club: don’t take Queensland music too seriously.

The second rule of Fruit Club: make it weird, sun-warped and slightly overripe.

Queensland music has always had a strange little punch bowl energy: sun-warped, loose around the edges and just odd enough to make sense.

Fruit Club is a YELO playlist for everything kooky and Queensland, with Big Pineapple kitsch, bent-pop weirdness, surf-rider indie, garage sounds and songs that feel like they escaped from a roadside attraction.

This Queensland music playlist is for the strange, sunny and slightly unhinged. It moves through local sounds that don’t sit too neatly in one lane: indie, surf, garage, alt-pop, left-field rock and whatever else has enough flavour to earn a spot.

From Brisbane’s oddball pop streak, with bands like Regurgitator, Custard and The Jungle Giants, to Gold Coast mainstays FISHER and Day We Ran, plus some Sunny Coast flavour from Harlum and Betty Taylor, Fruit Club pulls together the playful side of Queensland music without turning it into a novelty.

It’s for bands that don’t take themselves too seriously, songs with a bit of bite, and artists making Queensland sound less predictable than people expect.

This is not a polished postcard version of Queensland music. It’s sticky, bright, funny, crooked and alive.

This is Fruit Club by YELO.