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Queensland venue guide
Live music venues worth knowing across Queensland.
YELO’s Queensland live music venues guide maps the pubs, theatres, clubs, band rooms, arts centres and local stages where the good noise happens.
Start with the main Queensland music hubs, then browse venue guides and regional links across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Moreton Bay and regional Queensland, plus the Tweed border circuit just south of Coolangatta.
Start here
Pick a music hub.
Find gigs, venues, festivals and local music coverage by region.
Browse by region
Jump around the map.
Coastal pubs and local rooms
Sunshine Coast live music venues.
The Sunshine Coast guide covers coastal pubs, band rooms and local stages across the region, from Caloundra and Nambour to Eumundi, Palmview, Coolum and the hinterland.
Dear Seattle at Pulse Bar in Maroochydore. Photo: Lewis Venz.
Inner city rooms to major venues
Brisbane live music venues.
Brisbane’s guide covers small bars, independent band rooms, theatre spaces and major venues across the city, from Fortitude Valley and Newstead to South Bank, Woolloongabba and Boondall.
Deafheaven at The Princess Theatre in Brisbane. Photo: Marc Roberts.
Beachside rooms and entertainment spaces
Gold Coast live music venues.
The Gold Coast guide covers beachside venues, nightlife rooms, market stages and larger entertainment spaces across the city.
HOTA on the Gold Coast hosts large events such as Drumming of the Tao. Photo: Facebook.
Around the edges
More rooms worth knowing.
Tweed Heads and Moreton Bay sit outside the three main city guides but form important parts of the wider south east live music circuit.
Just south of the Queensland border
Tweed Heads live music venues
Tweed Heads sits directly below Coolangatta and forms part of the same cross-border live music circuit.
Outer north rooms
Moreton Bay live music venues
Moreton Bay adds its own outer north pocket to the Queensland live music map, with grassroots rooms, destination venues and country pubs.
Latest stories
Latest Queensland music stories.
Venue shifts, festival news, local artists, gig updates and scene notes from across Queensland.
Regional Queensland
The growing map beyond the south east corner.
Queensland music does not stop at the south east corner. This starter map points to venues across the Darling Downs, Wide Bay, Central Queensland, Mackay, the Whitsundays, North Queensland, Far North Queensland and western towns.
Toowoomba & Darling Downs
Explore Toowoomba live music →
Empire Theatre
The Powerhouse
Tatts Hotel
Irish Club Hotel
The Southern Hotel
The Spotted Cow
Ipswich, Logan & Scenic Rim
Ipswich Civic Centre
Boonah Cultural Centre
Logan Entertainment Centre
Vonda Youngman Community Centre
Wide Bay & Fraser Coast
Bundaberg · Hervey Bay · Gympie
Beach House Hotel
Oodies Cafe
Sugarland Tavern
Brolga Theatre
Moncrieff Entertainment Centre
Central Queensland
Explore Rockhampton live music →
Allenstown Hotel
Great Western Hotel
Harrup Park
Pilbeam Theatre
Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre
Mackay & Whitsundays
Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre
Seabreeze Hotel
Magpies Sporting Club
Whitsunday Arts and Cultural Centre
Townsville & North Queensland
Explore Townsville live music →
The Warehouse
Dalrymple Hotel
Townsville Civic Theatre
Magnetic Island events
Cairns & Far North Queensland
Tanks Arts Centre
Cairns Performing Arts Centre
Elixir Music Bar
Gilligan’s
Barbary Coast
Western Queensland
Mount Isa Civic Centre
Mount Isa Mines Rodeo
Longreach venues
Barcaldine community venues
Queensland music map
THE MAP
GROWING.
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YELO is building a living map of Queensland music spaces, from small rooms and local pubs to major venues and regional stages.
