August 30, 2026By yelomag
Across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, there are enough tours, festivals and local favourites to make staying home look like a bad decision. We pulled out five for each region. Boy & Bear · Violent Soho · Dear Seattle WHERE TO? SUNNY COAST Boy & Bear, Sunny Side Up, Suzanne Vega, Melbourne
August 28, 2026By yelomag
NO CIGAR will bring their biggest Australian tour yet through Queensland this September and October, with shows on the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and in Brisbane. The Auckland indie-rock outfit will play Pulse Bar on the Sunshine Coast on Thursday, September 10, followed by Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast on Friday, September 11. They
August 11, 2026By yelomag
Alpine performing at Laneway Festival in Brisbane in 2013. Photo: Conan00/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Laneway Festival will return to Brisbane in 2027 after spending a year on the Gold Coast as the national festival reduces its Australian run. The festival has confirmed its Queensland leg will move back to Brisbane Showgrounds next year following
August 10, 2026By yelomag
Phil Jamieson has cancelled his 2026 PJ AIR national tour after fracturing his lower back in an on-stage accident just days before the release of his new solo album. The Grinspoon frontman suffered a fractured L1 vertebra after slipping during a performance on Friday night and hitting his spine on a drum riser. Jamieson was
July 26, 2026By yelomag
Thirst Trap perform at The Presynct in Nambour, one of the Sunshine Coast venues helping build the region’s grassroots live music scene. Photo: Marc Roberts. Queensland artists could get more chances to open for major touring acts under new nightlife reforms aimed at strengthening grassroots venues, regional touring and the state’s live music economy. The
July 24, 2026By yelomag
Spilt Milk returns to the Gold Coast in December. Photo: Spilt Milk RAYE is bringing her search for a husband to the Gold Coast, joining Lewis Capaldi and a huge cast of international and Australian artists at Spilt Milk 2026. The husbands are coming. After spending the better part of the past year asking “WHERE
July 21, 2026By yelomag
Kasey Chambers leads the 2026 Groundwater Country Music Festival lineup. Photo: Supplied. Kasey Chambers will lead the 2026 Groundwater Country Music Festival lineup when the free Broadbeach event returns to the Gold Coast from Friday, October 16 to Sunday, October 18. The lineup, announced this week, brings together country icons, festival favourites and international artists,
July 19, 2026By Penny Brand
The Meanies, with frontman Link Meanie second from left. Photo: Jo Forster. Australian pop-punk favourites The Meanies are heading to South East Queensland with Dad Fight armed with a new split seven-inch and more than three decades of stories. The rare national run includes shows with Spiderbait in Adelaide and Canberra, before the Melbourne punk
June 24, 2026By yelomag
Festival-goers at Rolling Sets. Photo: Mitch Lowe, supplied. If The Beach Boys were allowed to invent “Kokomo”, YELO is officially claiming the stretch between the Sunshine Coast and Byron Bay as the ‘Bermuda Bahama Banana Republic Triangle’. It is not a recognised region, but it does contain an unreasonable number of festivals. From the Sunshine
June 14, 2026By yelomag
Viral Instagram sensations Phil and The Blanks have scored their first festival slot at Crafted Festival Gold Coast. The Sunshine Coast fishing-shirt weirdos and unlikely Lowes menswear pin-up boys will join The Vanns, Selve, SPACE&AGES, Laurel Hill, ALLORA and Beatniks DJs at Kurrawa Park, Broadbeach, on Saturday, September 12. The news lands as Phil and

