December 12, 2024By yelomag
Australian punk-rock band Frenzal Rhomb will headline Redcliffe festival Where We Belong on June 28 next year. Best known for their songs “Never Had So Much Fun” and “You Are Not My Friend” – the band were mainstays in the Triple J 2000s era, where lead vocalist Jason Whalley and Lindsay McDougall worked as “Jay and the
December 9, 2024By yelomag
Photo: Good Things Festival 2024 wraps up in Brisbane. Photo by Jordan Munns via Facebook. In scenes reminiscent of Woodstock ’99, music revellers were scorched alive at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds for Good Things Festival yesterday. Temperatures pushed 40 degrees in the City’s concrete jungle, with heat stroke consuming the crowd, and electrical storms tempting the
September 13, 2024By yelomag
Australia’s most remote music festival Big Red Bash has been cancelled next year as organisers take a break to “recharge”. The Birdsville event, in western Queensland, has been running non-stop since 2013, with a break in 2020. The announcement was made on Thursday via the festival’s social media, saying it’s been a “massive undertaking”. It
September 3, 2024By yelomag
The Gympie Music Muster has attracted a record-breaking 50,000 country music lovers to Amamoor Creek State Forest this year. Organisers say visitations to the festival were up by 10,000, compared to 40,000 tickets sold last year. Earlier this year, the Muster became Queensland Music Awards Festival of the Year (pictured), cementing its status as the state’s premier music and
August 28, 2024By Penny Brand
Festival goer at Blues Fest. Photo by FETEDOV via Facebook. Queensland festival guide Queensland music festivals in 2026 Looking for Queensland music festivals in 2026? YELO tracks the big weekends, regional gems, live music trails and festival dates worth putting on your calendar. Queensland does festivals differently. Some happen in city streets, some in paddocks,
July 4, 2024By yelomag
Sunshine Coast artists are battling it out in a competition which will see one act play alongside Pseudo Echo, Thirsty Merc and Jebediah at the Airlie Beach Festival of Music on November 8-10. Tom Neilson was the first to win a final place in the Passport To Airlie competition at the Kings Beach Tavern last Thursday, with punk rock lads The Drop
April 22, 2024By yelomag
Featured gig: As music festivals across Australia pull the pin on their events micro-festivals are popping in their place. Brisbane punk band Butterfingers will headline, Where We Belong Festival in Redcliffe, in Brisbane’s north, on May 18. Touted as “the biggest festival Redcliffe has ever seen”, there will be a huge lineup of local bands,
February 14, 2024By yelomag
Redcliffe has a new live music festival with Brisbane punk act Butterfingers to headline on May 18. Where We Belong Festival 2024 will be Redcliffe’s biggest music festival, Bree from Breeza Bars and Bands announced today. Bree says the Picnic Hill event will see a major showcase of local bands and bring a boost to
August 27, 2023By Penny Brand
After an epic weekend at our favourite true-blue country music festival, the Gympie Music Muster, Yelo music editor Penny Brand has put together her ‘Muster Musts’ to survive this incredible family-friendly, all-Aussie weekend. Do you have a ‘Muster Must’? LET US KNOW!
August 27, 2023By yelomag
Gympie: Holy heck Gympie Muster Muster 2023, what a ride! This place is like country music on steroids, if you can get any more country than that! The Akubras were out by day and the Driza-Bones came out by night. This place is an actual village of its own, deep in the dreamy Amamoor state

