The Sunshine Coast Music Awards on Sunday night is a major feature of the Queensland live music calendar this June. Photo: Supplied. Queensland is bigger than your algorithm. Every month, YELO rounds up the gigs worth leaving the house for across Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. This month, we’re also looking further
Photos: The Wolston Butchers by Dameeka Middleton. The YELO See More Music Challenge is about helping more people discover local artists, one band at a time. With so much music discovery driven by algorithms, major releases and big touring names, local artists can be easy to miss. Across the Sunshine Coast and beyond, venue closures
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Sunshine Coast musicians and music industry leaders are doing whatever they can to promote local music in the wake of The Station’s closure. The popular Birtinya venue shut its doors last week, prompting increased activity and advocacy across the region as artists, broadcasters and venue operators work to maintain momentum in the local music scene.
Wow what a year! Just four months ago, YELO was merely yet another ADHD-fuelled bright spark idea, being floated between two mates over some hippy-dippy cosmic cookies. And what a Pandora’s box it has turned out to be, with so many cool cats on the local music scene we’ve now come to love. The Sunshine
Wow, what a journey it’s been to get here! The Yelo Sunny Coast Music Press vision all started on a serendipitous afternoon visit to a University of the Sunshine Coast music panel event which garnered some big names in the local music industry. It was a rushed affair, as my music student bestie dragged me