WHIPLASSH and VERATIE perform at Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba. Photos: Penny Brand. From existential crises and teenage pressure to deliberately imperfect recordings, the songs reaching YELO’s weekly ABC Sunshine Coast segment reveal a local scene that is becoming harder to define, and far more interesting. The Coast has long had a strong folk and indie identity,
The Jungle Giants play Blackflag Brewing Coolum with The Tullamarines and Tear Drive on August 21. Photo: Meg Siejka. With The Jungle Giants and JET on the way, a production brewery in Coolum’s industrial estate is emerging as one of the Sunshine Coast’s most important live music rooms. Known as The Compound, Blackflag Brewing Coolum
A packed crowd fills Blackflag Mooloolaba during The Drop Beers at Punk Piss Up earlier this month. Photo: Lewis Venz. You could walk straight past it if you didn’t know it was there. But a back-alley taphouse in Mooloolaba is filling up with free live music, and people are noticing. Penny Brand writes. Reached by
The best live music on offer on the Sunshine Coast right now might be the easiest one to say yes to. We are talking about the free ones. Force-fed, if you will. They’re the kind of shows that put a proper band in front of people who may not have come looking for live music