Youth big band
The Whopping Big Band
The Tweed's own student big band, started in 1994.
- $25 · Members $20
- Music from 6:30 pm
- Courtesy bus
Gigs
We meet on the last Friday of each month, holidays permitting, with a break in December.
Youth big band
The Tweed's own student big band, started in 1994.
Jazz
Australian jazz legends, once the house band at Sydney's Basement.
December: no gig. See you in January.
Reviews & photos
An 18-piece band from the roaring ’20s to Coltrane and Star Wars.
Laid-back blues to raunchy soul from a perennial favourite.
A Hammond organ with a Leslie speaker, and a young giant on drums.
Gravel-voiced blues and an earthquake on double bass.
Standards re-imagined, including "St. Thomas" as a rock cha-cha.
Seasoned professionals, Brazilian Latin and a vocoder.
Hot Club de Paris swing, with twin guitars, violin and sax.
Electric blues with three guitars out front.
A world-class Gold Coast big band, led by Rick Best.
Avant-garde to Bacharach and the Beatles, to close out 2025.
A tight big band, with players aged from 14 to 83.
Jazz with the saxophone out front, on a spring night at Condong.