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LIVE MUSIC · ARTS · CULTURE
Here’s what’s worth doing on the Sunshine Coast this weekend.
Looking for something to do on the Sunshine Coast this weekend? YELO updates this page each week with a curated snapshot of live music, arts and local culture happening from Friday to Sunday.
The full calendar, including midweek shows and later dates, lives in YELO’s Sunshine Coast gig guide. This is the useful bit for people deciding what to do now.
Updated for Friday, August 7 to Sunday, August 9, 2026.
☀️ Weekend weather: Mostly fine across the Sunshine Coast, around 21°C. Check conditions for outdoor events.
Weekend venue watch
Three rooms to check first
Classic Australian pub rock, Thelma Plum in acoustic mode and a two night Nambour run make these three rooms the quickest place to start this weekend.
Caloundra live music
Kings Beach Tavern
The Radiators and Upsize lead Friday night, followed by a 2000s and 2010s party on Saturday and the Zach Bryan Tribute Show on Sunday afternoon.
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Eumundi live music
Imperial Hotel Eumundi
Thelma Plum brings her I Don’t Play That Song Anymore acoustic tour to the Imperial on Saturday for a rare duo format show.
See event →
Nambour live music
The Presynct
PWC launches the Lost EP with a stacked local hip hop bill on Friday, before Battle of The Crowns takes over the room on Saturday.
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Free this weekend
VanderAa with Big In Japan
Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba hosts VanderAa with Big In Japan on Saturday night, with free entry.
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Sunshine Coast Gig Guide
Featured weekend · August 7 to August 9
The Radiators, Thelma Plum, local hip hop, Mamma Mia! and Japanese extreme new wave
Friday brings pub rock, hip hop, burlesque and candlelit strings, Saturday spreads across Eumundi, Coolum, Mooloolaba, Nambour and Caloundra, and Sunday finishes with country tributes and an underground Japanese band in a Nambour espresso bar.
Friday, August 7
The Radiators with Upsize — Kings Beach Tavern, Caloundra
Event info: Oztix
PWC Lost EP Album Launch — The Presynct, Nambour
With DLIVER, The Lady Throat Killers, Romez, Megalodon, Harlum and the Sunny Coast Cypher Vol. 2.
Event info: Oztix
Mamma Mia! — The Events Centre, Caloundra
Event info: The Events Centre
Burlesque L’amour: Discovering Her — Venue 114, Bokarina
Event info: Venue 114
Comedy Hypnotist Rob Young — Sunshine Beach SLSC
Event info: Humanitix
Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer — Flaxton Gardens
Event info: Fever
Saturday, August 8
Thelma Plum: The I Don’t Play That Song Anymore Tour — Imperial Hotel Eumundi
Event info: Imperial Hotel Eumundi
HURRICANE: The Australian Luke Combs Tribute Show — Norton Music Factory, Caloundra West
With Cowgirls Don’t Cry, celebrating Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson.
Event info: Oztix
VanderAa with Big In Japan — Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba
Free entry.
Event info: Blackflag Brewing
The Creative Pulse: Music & Culture Vol. 2 — Coolum Beer Company
Dance driven live music, movement and creative performance.
Event info: Humanitix
Battle of The Crowns — The Presynct, Nambour
Event info: The Presynct
Mamma Mia! — The Events Centre, Caloundra
Event info: The Events Centre
Burlesque L’amour: Discovering Her — Venue 114, Bokarina
Event info: Venue 114
2000s + 2010s Party — Kings Beach Tavern, Caloundra
Event info: Oztix
Sunday, August 9
WAPPERIN from Japan — Small Change Espresso, Nambour
With Jack Dylan and the Villains and Belligerent Goat.
Event info: Humanitix
Zach Bryan Tribute Show — Kings Beach Tavern, Caloundra
Event info: Oztix
Diamond/Springsteen — Sunshine Beach SLSC
A live band performance of Neil Diamond and Bruce Springsteen favourites.
Event info: Humanitix
Mamma Mia! — The Events Centre, Caloundra
Event info: The Events Centre
From the Sunshine Coast art galleries guide
Art worth adding to the weekend
A major First Nations exhibition continues in Caloundra, while Ben Frost and Josh Lord bring consumer imagery, confrontation and dark humour together at Superwow.
Read the full Sunshine Coast art galleries guide
Caloundra Regional Gallery
LORE and LAND: First Nations artists in the Art Collection
Grounded in cultural knowledge, ancestral connections and sovereignty, this exhibition brings together work by First Nations artists from the Sunshine Coast Art Collection. It continues until Sunday, August 16.
See the exhibition →
Superwow Gallery
Poetry of an Empire
Ben Frost and Josh Lord examine the visual language of consumer culture through collaborative and individual works that are seductive, confrontational and darkly funny.
Explore Superwow →
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More ways to plan your weekend
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