Tanks Arts Centre

17/06/2025

🌴🎉 CAIRNS FESTIVAL HAS LAUNCHED... AND TANKS ARTS CENTRE IS BRINGING THE PARTY. 🎉🌴

From wild to weird to downright wonderful — this year, we’ve got your Cairns Festival sorted:

🐾 Unleash your inner animal with the jaw-dropping adults-only circus, 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗟
🍷 Day drink (we mean wine taste) with comedy king Merrick Watts
😬 Awkward laughs guaranteed with Luke McGregor
🎤 Check the ultimate old-school block party at 𝗛𝗶𝗽 𝗛𝗼𝗽 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗺 with YO! MAFIA
🤗 Get your brains (and banter) on at cult quiz show 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗢𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿
🤠 Saddle up for the hottest ol' western this side of the equator with The Counterfeit's 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗲 & 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁

🎟️ Buckle up, Cairns — it’s going to be a wild ride. Tickets on sale from tomorrow, giving you a whole day to plan it out...
👉 cairnsfest.com.au

16/06/2025

Fresh off a hugely successful capital city tour, Australian indie-rock favourites Slowly Slowly are heading our way, bringing their dynamic new live show to regional venues across the country.

From sold-out shows and festival anthems to emotional ballads that hit you right in the feels, these Melbourne lads are more than just a band – they’re a movement. Grab your mates, grab your tickets, and get ready to scream every word.

📅 Sep 13
👉 https://www.ticketlink.com.au/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/slowly-slowly-2025
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 20 JUNE

15/06/2025

You Am I are dropping the full Hi Fi Way album live at Tanks on June 21. It’s the rock’n’roll equivalent of your favourite jeans — classic, fits perfectly, and makes you look cooler than you actually are.

📅 June 21
🎟️ https://www.tanksartscentre.com/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/you-am-i-hifi-way-30th-anniversary
📸 IG/iomediaproductions

13/06/2025

Who’s manifesting this setlist?

👀 OG bangers
💃 Dancy surf grooves
☀️ Summer lovin' in the middle of a tropical winter

Lock it in:
🎶 The Beautiful Girls
📅 July 17
🕺 It’s giving… no-shoes, all-vibes
🎟️ https://www.tanksartscentre.com/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/the-beautiful-girls-were-already-gone-20th-anniversary-tour

11/06/2025

Body Mind & Soul at the June markets 🧘‍♀️ Wellness stalls, free workshops, talks and demonstrations!

Enjoy a relaxed yoga class in the Flecker Gardens, yoga and pilates workshops in Tank 5, learn about The Power or Words and Yoga Philosophy and experience the tranquillity of sound meditation.

Hit interested to stay in the loop 👉 Tanks Markets || Last Sunday of the Month

📅 Sunday 29 June
⏰ 8am-1pm
📍 Tanks Arts Centre, Collins Avenue, Edge Hill

11/06/2025

📢 📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY! 📢 Cairns Regional Council 📢
Hands up if you love live music and visual arts 🙋‍♀️. Keep 'em raised if you enjoy a fast-paced environment, working with large, highly skilled teams, and want to contribute to making our region the arts and cultural capital of Regional Queensland. 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️
Tanks Arts Centre is on the hunt for a Program & Events Officer to help us deliver unforgettable experiences across music, arts, and cultural events!
For full job description, requirements, and applications, head to the link below... Applications close Sunday 6 July 2025 at 11.30pm AEST.

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4246776959/

What's on in Cairns? It's on at the Tanks! The BEST live music venue in Cairns and exhibitions, community programs and workshops.

10/06/2025

Heads up: You Am I are bringing Hi Fi Way to Tanks on June 21 — start to finish, no skipping.

It’s basically a rock’n’roll therapy session, but with more sweat and less crying.

Get your ticket before you’re the only one left yelling “What’s Berlin Chair?” at the party.

📅 June 21
🎟️ https://www.tanksartscentre.com/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/you-am-i-hifi-way-30th-anniversary

06/06/2025

LISTEN UP, CAIRNS ✨ Strap yourselves in sonic safari through the weird and wonderful when genre-morphing beat wizard Spoonbill (aka Jim Moynihan) lands in Tank 5 this August — with mind-bending visual sorcery from longtime collaborator Dropbear.

📅 FRI 22 AUG
🔗 ticketlink.com.au/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/spoonbill-20th-anniversary-tour-with-dropbear

05/06/2025

Get ready – Blak Rising is coming in hot! A deadly night of beats, bars, and Blak excellence is headed to Tank 5 🖤 We’re talking Miss Kaninna, Jada Weazel, Dean Brady, Tjaka, and local legends R.3.B all on one stage, repping fresh sounds and powerful stories from across the continent.

📅 FRI 17 OCT
🔗 ticketlink.com.au/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/blak-rising

04/06/2025

The legends are back.

You Am I at Tanks on June 21, playing Hi Fi Way in its entirety — a night of riffs, swagger, and pure rock’n’roll gold.

Grab your mates, snag your tickets. Or stay home and pretend you don’t care. We all know the truth. 🤘🔥

📅 June 21
🎟️ https://www.tanksartscentre.com/ticketlinkEvents/popular-music/you-am-i-hifi-way-30th-anniversary
📸 IG/picsbyjuanmahony

03/06/2025

QMusic Industry Connect is heading to Cairns!

Join us for an immersive afternoon of music industry insight, creative development, networking and celebration, all designed to support and elevate our region’s young and emerging music artists.

Spend an afternoon where up-and-coming talent meets industry expertise. Learn directly from leading artists and professionals as they share practical advice and creativity hacks, music business essentials, marketing strategies, sync licensing, and how to execute a successful touring plan.

To top it all off, the day concludes with a free live music showcase spotlighting the region’s vibrant original music scene. ALL WELCOME 🎶

⏰ SUN 22 JUN 📍 TANK 5
QMusic Industry Connect: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Industry Networking: 5:00pm – 5:30pm
Live Music Showcase: 5:30pm – 7:00pm

For all the info and to register 👉 https://www.tanksartscentre.com/tanks-only-events/free-events/qmusic-industry-connect-2025

29/05/2025

Two exhibitions launching tonight!

Join us from 5pm, Fri 30 May, for Hannah Parker - Works from Shetland and Receive>Respond 2025.

Works from Shetland is a body of work developed from a residency at The Booth, Scalloway, Shetland Islands in 2024. The residency provided an opportunity for Hannah to immerse herself in her ancestral homelands, to research, write, and develop new watercolours about connection to place.

The Receive>Respond challenge is simple. Artists create an artwork and then are paired Secret Santa style with another artist. Each artist responds to their received artwork with a new artwork and voila, Receive>Respond.