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QT Fashion Week and Awards Gold Coast

We’ve been keeping it on the ‘QT’ and just can’t hold the secret any longer! QT Gold Coast is super excited to announce that it will host the first ever QT Fashion Week and Awards Gold Coast in 2013. The week long event will commence on Monday 22nd April and is tipped to feature some [...]

Childrens Creative art workshop

Finish the Christmas school holidays with a bang and head on down to Miami’s Rabbit + Cocoon cultural precinct for five fun-packed days of performing and visual arts for children. Workshops are facilitated by a team of highly creative and very experienced teachers and guest artists (all hold teaching qualifications and/or Blue Cards), and held [...]

Naked City Guide

Naked City Guide was created in 2009 by a trio of creatives who couldn’t understand why Gold Coast culture was still a blind spot on the national radar. Following the overwhelming response from the book, they’ve put Naked online. Naked is a guide to Gold Coast venues that chalk up the fondest memories and the [...]

The Surfer and the Mermaid

The Arts Centre Gold Coast and Bleach* present The Surfer and the Mermaid. Following the success of its sell out premiere at the Bleach Festival in 2012 and its critically acclaimed 26 performance season at the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney. The Arts Centre Gold Coast in partnership with Connecting Southern Gold Coast and the Bleach [...]

We love Lanie Lane

This rockabilly princess is an absolute favourite of the QT Gold Coast crew. When she stays with us she is as fun as she is charming, and leaves us absolutely starstruck! She also has some serious musical chops, and a back catalogue that is fast becoming one of Australia’s most enviable with collaborations with the [...]

Flume – Musical Wizardry.

Flume has taken out #1 place on our top Lobby Tunes this month, we can’t stop listening to his debut self-titled album, but another few songs we’ve got on repeat can be found below.   1. On Top feat. T Shirt – Flume 2. Miracle – The Temper Trap 3. My Boo – Ghost Town [...]

spaQ Goldie Signatures

We had a blast creating these signature experiences. Each of these carefully crafted combos is like a string of precious jewels; a harmonious series of treatments sequenced for a monumental bliss boost with serious therapeutic kudos. SKIN RESCUE (120 mins / $255) ritual Foot Bath + Warm Oil Back massage + signature Aloe wrap + [...]

Soul Sundays

Zoom!

by Sas Rowlands. Take a spectacular scenic flight and discover the wonders of the Gold Coast from the sky. Enjoy the thrill of taking off from the glistening broadwater and soaring high above the ‘Glitter Strip’, over the high rises and along the fabulous beaches. Experience the white sands of Stradbroke Island and the opulence [...]

Old Skool

ALLANS MUSIC + BILLY HYDE This music store in Southport is a local institution. It has survived buyouts, the digital age, and the rowdy Southport locals and continues to be on of the places for the serious musician, or appreciator of music, to visit on the coast. There is a humongous range of instruments, a [...]

Roger Sanchez. We love you.

Sometimes in life, you get to do something really cool at work. Something that you might not have dreamed would be a part of your chosen career. Getting to interview megalicious DJ Roger Sanchez at our Stingray Lounge while he sipped a cappuccino and munched on chicken tacos is one such moment in my life. [...]

Best in show.

Have you even seen the artist roster coming up at the Arts Centre on the Gold Coast!? Irish funny man Ross Noble, Sesame Street presenting Elmo’s World Tour, and St Hilda’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’. Not only is it a beautiful fresh venue, with a multitude of different spaces that keep even the keenest arts [...]

Pop Princess Kate Alexa

She is showbiz royalty. She is a babe. She is a delight to spend time with, and she has a gorgeous muso boyfriend (Wayne Pitt from the band ‘Fangs’). Usually Kate Alexa would have us wearing big ‘ole green-eyed-monster  glasses and hoping that she would at least have oddly shaped feet or something (she doesn’t [...]

Kina Grannis is best-in-show.

If you are wondering what a lucky break mixed with tenacity and a dash of talent look like, then take a squizz at YouTubes latest prodigy, Kina Grannis. She began singing at the age of four in her bedroom to her teddies, and her career officially launched some 15 years later with her first professional clip [...]

Bangin. Every night. Elsewhere.

This hip bar is best described by its own mission statement, so I’ll leave it to the experts; To support the arts and entertainment, providing the professionals from these industries with a suitable venue. To create an intimate, stylish venue that appeals to the mature drinker. To be a culture-rich, music-savvy venue for patrons of [...]