Your Event Line Up
Some say we like to see ourselves as the main event, but really, we do it all for you! High-energy stage show sound good? How about beach cinema or symphony under the stars? If sport's more your thing, why not check out a NRL or AFL game? Or for lovers of low-key, get into one of the many grassroots arts and food festivals. Check out the latest events on Gold Coast below.
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30 Nov 2024
Killer Queen Experience & The David Bowie Show
Two of Australia’s favourite Live acts – The Killer Queen Experience & The David Bowie Show come together to perform the greatest hits of Queen & David Bowie on their “Anthems That Rock You” Tour. Killer Queen are recognised around the globe as the leading Queen Tribute Band, while Wayne Vitale’s David Bowie Show will blow your mind, performing all the hit anthems of Bowie. John Blunt and Wayne Vitale portray these larger-than-life music forces in an unforgettable night of hits. Don’t miss this live 2-hour spectacular, it's guaranteed to rock you.
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01 Dec 2024 - 06 Dec 2024
Basketball Australia - Australian School Championships
The ASC’s is the pinnacle event for school basketball in Australia that sees Secondary Schools from around Australia travel and compete in a weeklong event. In recent years the ASC’s have become so well regarded that they have on many occasions included teams from neighbouring countries participating in the event. The ASC’s offers both 3×3 and 5v5 formats of the sport. The 3×3 format is a participation competition where all schools can enter teams and is typically hosted on the same day as the opening ceremony. The 5v5 format consist of 2 competitions; Championship Competition & Participation Division.
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05 Dec 2024 - 09 Dec 2024
2024 AASCF Nationals Cheer & Dance Championships
AASCF has conducted the Australian All-Star Cheer & Dance National Championship since 2006. It is the highpoint of Championships in the country, with well over 2000 teams and 11,000+ athletes competing over the weekend which will be held in December 2024. Nationals is truly a celebration of the sport and is a sea of bows and the opportunity to wear your State Champion Jackets for 5 full days and nights.
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Friday (Weekly)
Very Merry Long Lunch at The Island Gold Coast
Your Office Family Christmas - Very Merry Long Lunch at The Island Gold Coast.Gather your office family for a Very Merry Long Lunch that takes all the stress out of planning your Christmas Party. This year, we’re making it easy—just get your numbers together and turn up!Hosted in the stunning Island Glasshouse, our Christmas Long Lunch comes with all the trimmings. Enjoy a festive feast with our Family Style share menu, packed with all your holiday favourites. For those looking to raise a glass (or two), we’ve got an optional three-hour drinks package featuring cocktail carafes, premium wines, beers, and bubbles. Prefer to keep it simple? No worries—guests opting for just the food menu can purchase drinks from the bar on the day.We’ll have live tunes to keep the vibes merry and a photo moment to capture the memories. Plus, every booking gets their own festive-themed table, so you can celebrate in style.Choose from two datesFriday, 6th December orFriday, 13th DecemberFrom 12 PM to 3 PM at the Island Glasshouse.Tickets$95 p/person for the Family-Style Share Menu, or$134 p/person if you’d like to add the three-hour beverage package.Minimum of four guests per table. It’s the perfect way to wrap up the year with your work crew—just show up and enjoy!-----Family-Style MenuOn the tableArtisan bread rolls with butter and smoked saltTo StartPoached Mooloolaba prawns, compressed apple, fennel, radish, finger lime dressing (df, gf)Chicken and leek terrine, sourdough crumb, truffle oil, tarragon mayonnaise (gfo)MainsRosemary and garlic slow cooked lamb shoulder, seeded mustard jus (df, gf)Herb roasted chicken, pan jus, roasted onions (gf)SidesRoasted heirloom carrots with goats cheese and macadamia (gf, v)Rosemary and garlic roasted potatoes, smoked salt (df, gf, ve, v)To FinishPassion fruit tart, blackberries, sorghumPavlova, mango, raspberries, kiwifruitCOST: A$98.65 – A$138.68
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07 Dec 2024
PNAU - Australia 2024 - Gold Coast
Off the back of their recently released sixth studio album Hyperbolic, Aussie festival favourites PNAU will be returning to Australia this summer! Kicking off in Perth on November 22nd, PNAU will then take their exhilarating live show along the east coast of Australia landing at Miami Marketta for a Gold Coast show on Saturday 7th December. Expect to hear some of their latest tracks lifted from Hyperbolic, plus hits like ‘Go Bang’, ‘Chameleon’ and of course their multi-billion streaming hit ‘Cold Heart’. 2024 also marks the 25th anniversary of PNAU’s debut album Sambanova, with the ARIA Awardwinning LP achieving mythical status by its rarity and leaving fans begging for a re-release. Released earlier this year, Hyperbolic is PNAU’s first LP since 2017’s mind-altering Changa. The album is packed with A-List collaborators including Khalid, Troye Sivan, Bebe Rexha, Empire of the Sun and more, and features four brand new tracks including ‘Nostalgia’. In the time since their last album release, PNAU exploded onto the global stage with their Elton John & Dua Lipa recording ‘Cold Heart’ garnering billions of streams, picking up multiple award wins and nominations, and taking PNAU’s music to stratospheric heights. Now Hyperbolic shows the world the breadth of PNAU’s songwriting and production prowess, taking us from their origins in underground raves and clubs, all the way through to disco and pop-tinged anthems, but always with PNAU’s unmistakable dance floor sound at the core Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes have been raving together since meeting at high school in Sydney and starting PNAU not long after. PNAU released their ARIA Award-winning debut album Sambanova in 1999, followed by Again in 2003, their self-titled album Pnau in 2007, and Soft Universe in 2011. It was in 2012 that PNAU collaborated with Elton John for the first time, delivering Elton a UK #1 album with Good Morning To The Night. In 2016, multiplatinum hits ‘Go Bang’ and ‘Chameleon’ featuring Kira Divine became inescapable on the airwaves, winning multiple ARIA Awards and climbing the Billboard Dance charts. Their fifth studio album Changa followed in 2017 with Kira bringing a new dimension to PNAU’s live shows and recordings. With the phenomenal success of ‘Cold Heart’ making them one of Australia’s highest streaming musical exports and most successful dance acts globally, PNAU continue to collaborate with some of the biggest artists around the world, being sought out for their unique artistry and production skills. In recent years, PNAU contributed to the ELVIS soundtrack with ‘Don’t Fly Away’, remixed Diana Ross and Tame Impala’s track ‘Turn Up The Sunshine’ and also remixed Lizzo’s track ‘2 Be Loved’
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08 Dec 2024
HOODOO GURUS - Back To The Stone-Age
Hoodoo Gurus Announce Back to the Stoneage 2024 National Tour! Performing Stoneage Romeos in its entirety plus all their hits! #HoodooGurus Hot off the announcement of their extremely limited, vinyl collector’s set, Hoodoo Gurus have announced a national tour celebrating 40 years since they released Stoneage Romeos. Originally released in March 1984 (!), Stoneage Romeos, was the Gurus’ debut album and featured the hits Leilani, Tojo, My Girl and I Want You Back. It reached #29 on the Australian Album Chart and the album went on to win Best Debut Album at the 1984 Countdown Awards. Stoneage Romeos has consistently appeared in the Top 10 on almost every Top 50 and Top 100 Australian album lists. The Back to the Stoneage 2024 national tour will see the band play the Stoneage Romeos album in full followed by a selection of hit songs and album tracks. The tour will land on the Gold Coast at Miami Marketta on Sunday 8th December. Dave Faulkner said, “‘Stoneage Romeos’ was a pivotal album for us and many of its songs have remained live favourites ever since. It’ll be great to play some of those “less-travelled” songs from it on this tour - even though that means we’ll be playing longer sets to fit everything else in as well. Hah! To my mind that’s a win-win situation.” Since forming in 1981, Hoodoo Gurus boast 10 x ARIA Top 20 albums, 9 x ARIA Top 40 singles and a host of multi-platinum albums – they’re mainstays on the live scene, and influential to a new generation of artists that have arrived after them. Few other artists have toured as comprehensively, achieved such an enduring reputation over successive generations, enjoyed such loyalty from fans and maintained such high currency for their work – both within Australia and abroad. Hoodoo Gurus last toured Australia in September 2022 to rave reviews: “ … the Hoodoos prove there’s a good reason why they can sell out such a sizeable venue four decades into their career, the tight four-piece playing with an explosive energy that puts bands half their age to shame” – Sydney Morning Herald “The Hoodoo Gurus showed they have one of the most impressive back catalogs of any Australian guitar-rock band – filling a 25 song set tonight, with easily another dozen brilliant songs that could have been featured” – TheMusic.com.au Through to their chart-topping successes throughout the '80s and '90s, their international triumphs and countless sold-out local tours, from their 1998-2003 break-up through to their latest album, Chariot of the Gods, Hoodoo Gurus have been and remain one of the most popular and successful musical acts Australia has ever produced. ”
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08 Dec 2024
Juvenile Confessions
Six artists, one stage and a night to remember, all with an amazing talent to make an audience feel understood through their music. You can catch these up and coming artists at Mo's Desert Clubhouse on the 8th of December, to witness these girls dreams become reality. Introducing the freshest young artists: Kate Rubi, Indah Matisse, Bella Jon, Tayah Nakita, Lucianna Marquez, and Leah Geo. Their voices, will captivate you into listening, all while their words make you understand that these musicians are the sound of the future. But your discretion is advised, as this show may just change your life, and your perspective on it. 6pm doors. This is an All Ages event.
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09 Dec 2024 - 15 Dec 2024
2024 Australian Volleyball Schools Cup
The Australian Volleyball Schools Cup (AVSC) is the largest school-based sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting teams from across Australia, plus international teams. The event is owned and organised by Volleyball Australia. This event has seen tremendous growth since its inception and in 2019 saw 414 teams from 124 schools from across Australia and New Zealand. This unique event has delivered almost all of the national players (beach and indoor) for the last 3 decades and will continue to see the next generation of national, international and potentially Olympic athletes. The AVSC is the marquee junior participation event in the national events portfolio, bringing together hundreds of secondary school teams annually in December, enjoying an introduction to volleyball, camaraderie and enthusiastic competition amongst the nation’s school community.
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13 Dec 2024
The Dreggs - Caught In A Reverie Regional Album Tour
After smashing audiences in capital city with huge live shows, The Dreggs cannot wait to bring our new album, live, to regional towns across the country!
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14 Dec 2024
Deck the Halls
Add a bit of Magic to your celebration at Gold Coast’s favourite Christmas event! This iconic evening delivers a night of entertainment, free flowing drinks and a decadent feast. Dance the night away with your favourite hits from the talented Stu Campbell and Magic Carpet Ride, followed by entertainment to keep the party going! Ticket includes a four-course dinner and a 4.5-hour beverage package. Book now!
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14 Dec 2024 - 22 Mar 2025
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024Celebrate the best of contemporary Australian photography at HOTA Gallery. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024 presents a diverse selection of artworks by artists at the forefront of photographic media. As a survey of contemporary practice, the award plays an important role in representing the ongoing evolution of photography and the ways in which artists use it to create striking and memorable images. As the richest prize for photography in Queensland, the $25,000 acquisitive award is open to all Australian artists working in the broad medium of contemporary photography. Visitors to the exhibition will also get to choose their favourite artwork for the $5,000 People’s Choice Award. Since the Award’s inception, over 60 works have been acquired by HOTA, resulting in a celebrated collection that reflects shifts in the cultural and social landscape over two decades. Previous winners include Wani Toaishara, Tamara Dean, Shaun Gladwell, Darren Sylvester, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Polixeni Papapetrou, Polly Borland and Cherine Fahd. This exhibition is free to visit and is open 10am-4pm daily until 30 Mar 2025. Presented by HOTA, Home of the Arts
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15 Dec 2024
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks Show
Doors 3pmOpening Act 3.45pm - 4.45pmDreams 5:15pm - 7.45pm Dreams - Australia’s favourite tribute to Fleetwood Mac and the solo career of their leading lady Stevie Nicks heads back to the Gold Coast! “The Dreams Show was a breath of fresh air when it comes to Fleetwood Mac tribute shows.. these guys deliver.. Big Time! I was thoroughly impressed from start to finish.. Don’t miss this show if your a Mac fan!" Dennis Dunstan - Manager Fleetwood Mac (1981-1999) Bring your wild heart and gypsy spirit ready to rock n roll! You will re-live one of the legendary bands and performers of the seventies and eighties, and one band Australians love - Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. Featuring some of Queensland’s most talented musicians all dedicated to the task of bringing this era, this sound to the stage for all to enjoy. All the Moves + Amazing Outfits + Great Harmonies + Big Guitar Leads + all those iconic songs of this legendary band >>> Go Your Own Way + Gypsy + Edge of Seventeen + Rooms on Fire + Say You Love Me + Everywhere + Sara + Dreams + Seven Wonders + Rhiannon + Little Lies + You Make loving Fun + Don’t Stop + Little Lies + Gold + Gold Dust Woman + Songbird + I Don’t Want To Know + Big Love + Landslide + The Chain + Hold Me + Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around + Many more! www.dreamsshow.com.au
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15 Dec 2024
The Clash & The Jam Tribute
Get ready to rock out this December with The Clash and The Jam Tribute Show! This special event features two insane tribute bands—Revolution Rock and Setting Sons—playing all your favorite hits from iconic punk legends, The Clash and The Jam. With back to back headbangers, you’ll be transported back to the golden age of punk rock. In between the live sets, tracks will be played from the era with music from epic high-energy rockers including The Skids. The Undertones, Squeeze, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Stiff little fingers etc. Best of all, every ticket you purchase directly supports the local community. All profits from the show will be donated to the Coomera River Rotary Club's Northern Gold Coast Community Care Program, which provides essential food boxes to those in need and offers vital counseling support. Join them for an unforgettable night of music, rocking out, and giving back to the community! This is an 18+ event
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15 Dec 2024
The Clash & The Jam Ultimate Tribute
A rocking pre Christmas fundraiser in aid of the Northern Gold Coast Community Care Programme which provides food boxes to those in need. Sunday 15th December 2024 at Mo's Desert Clubhouse in Burleigh Heads.
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17 Dec 2024
The Nutcracker
BIG presents, The Nutcracker.Unwrap the magic of The Nutcracker this Christmas. Be enchanted by the incredible talent of international ballet stars as they take you on a journey through a winter wonderland. Feel the crisp air and hear the sleigh bells chime as the world's best ballet dancers bring this timeless tale to life. From the breath-taking snowflakes to the iconic Sugar Plum Fairy, every moment will captivate your imagination and fill your heart with holiday cheer. Join us for a performance that will transport you to a realm of enchantment and leave you with memories to treasure for a lifetime. Experience the beauty, grace, and joy of The Nutcracker, presented by BIG, and make this Christmas truly magical.
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20 Dec 2024
Christmas Actually
Christmas ActuallyThe five star festive smash returns! Christmas comes early as an all-star cast led by Australian cabaret icon Libby O’Donovan OAM unite to deliver all the hits from beloved holiday classic Love Actually, wrapped up with a sprig of holly and bucketloads of comedy and charm. Relive the magic musical moments from your favourite festive film including songs by Mariah Carey, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy, Kelly Clarkson, The Beach Boys and The Beatles, brought to life by a rockstar band of Australia’s top musicians and vocalists. Bursting with nativity lobsters (yes, more than one), cinnamon sticks and endless fun, Christmas Actually is the ultimate silly-season starter. ★★★★★ “It’s difficult to find any flaws in the way this show is constructed and calibrated… This is a show that will bring a lot of joy into people’s lives.” – TimeOut Creative Team A production by The Little Red Company Created by Adam Brunes & Naomi Price Lighting Design Sam Gibb Sound Design Geoff McGahan Image by Dylan Evans
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Experience Gold Coast acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are situated, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh Language Region.
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