Justin Lane Rooftop
Rooftop bar
A laid-back rooftop with ocean views and pizza. Time it right and you can hear the sound check from the amphitheatre next door.
📍 1710 Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220
Live music: 7 bars
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Cambus Wallace
Nautical bar
Named after a ship that sank off the Gold Coast in 1894, with a whisky menu, classic cocktails, aged spirits and regular live acoustic music.
📍 4/2237 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218
Suga
Rum bar
A plantation-style rum bar with a speakeasy feel and live entertainment every night it opens, Thursday to Sunday from 6pm.
📍 1142 Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach QLD 4221
Mr P.P.'s Deli & Rooftop
Rooftop bar
A two-storey deli and bar in Southport with a laneway and a rooftop, DJs, a retro-styled cocktail bar and leafy nooks.
📍 43 Nerang Street, Southport QLD 4215
The Island Rooftop
Rooftop bar
Billed as the Gold Coast's largest open-air rooftop bar, retro in style, looking over the skyline, with entertainment Thursday to Sunday.
📍 3128 Surfers Paradise Boulevard, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217
Skyline Rooftop Bar
Rooftop bar
Up the stairs from Waxy's Irish Pub, a rooftop bar with live music and pool tables.
📍 Level 1, 3206 Surfers Paradise Boulevard, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217
Nightjar
Dive bar
A rock 'n' roll dive bar down Justin Lane with live music.
📍 Justin Lane, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220
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Your questions
Which Gold Coast bars have live music?
Start with Justin Lane Rooftop, Cambus Wallace, Suga, Mr P.P.'s Deli & Rooftop and The Island Rooftop. Our full list has 7 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Now we're bringing it to Australia. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We put this guide together from our own research and trusted local guides, including Experience Gold Coast, Must Do Gold Coast and Urban List.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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