[Blog](/experience/blog/) # Two nights on the BLEACH Outdoor Stage, one apartment to come back to > SIX60 and Lady Blackbird \& Electric Fields headline back-to-back nights at HOTA's Outdoor Stage during BLEACH Festival, 1 to 11 October 2026. From Fern Street it's a tram ride and a walk, with 180 square metres waiting at the end of the night. - Tag: Travel tips --- HOTA's Outdoor Stage runs two headline nights back to back during **BLEACH Festival**, which takes over the precinct from **Thursday 1 to Sunday 11 October 2026**, moved to spring for the first time under new Artistic Director Felix Preval. Between them the two shows cover most of a group's tastes, soul and jazz one night, a stadium-sized New Zealand act the next, without a single night forcing a compromise. For a group booking Marriner Views, that's two big nights out inside one long weekend, and a building with the room to recover between them. ## Back-to-back nights on the Outdoor Stage **Lady Blackbird & Electric Fields** open the weekend on **Friday 2 October**, free and ticketed, a double bill running soul and jazz into electronic storytelling, all ages, capped at six tickets per booking. The following night, **Saturday 3 October**, **SIX60** headline with support from **Sub-Tribe**, their first time back on HOTA's Outdoor Stage in seven years, general admission standing, tickets at $89. SIX60 arrive as New Zealand's highest-selling live band, named the country's first Chart Icon at the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards, with 48 platinum-certified singles and more than 1,200 weeks on the New Zealand charts between them; Sub-Tribe bring a seven-piece dub-fusion set out of Sydney, built on South Pacific roots, Jamaican reggae and UK dubstep. The show carries content notes for loud sound, strobe and haze, worth knowing before a group with younger members books in. Two very different nights on the same stage, four days apart in the festival's opening weekend. ## Everything else on the eleven-day bill **BEACON**, Morag Myerscough's large-scale Lakeside installation with Gold Coast group Everybody NOW!, runs the full eleven days, hand-painted gateways by day and neon after dark. **THAW** opens the festival at 5 am on Thursday 1 October, a performer suspended over melting ice on Surfers Paradise Beach, with a second session at HOTA Lake Precinct that Saturday night. Closing weekend belongs to **No One Gets Out of Here Alive** at Theatre 1, The Farm's hour-long work on mortality, playing 10 and 11 October. ## Getting across to HOTA Two ways onto the G:link from Fern Street: Florida Gardens, 750 metres from the door, or the walk up to Cavill Avenue, 1.5 km, for a look at the main strip first. Either lands the group at Surfers Paradise for the crossing HOTA sends everyone on from there, over Chevron Island and the Green Bridge, roughly twenty minutes on foot. A group driving instead is better off parking once at Marriner, one secure space per apartment with 2-metre clearance, than counting on a second free bay at HOTA the morning after the first show. ![Outdoor spa with jets and seating, swimming pool and covered pavilion visible](/assets/photos/facilities/marriner-views-outdoor-spa.jpg) ## Room to recover before the next one 180 square metres and two apartments a floor means a group isn't stepping over each other between concert nights. The apartments run on fans and cross-breeze rather than air-conditioning, ocean side to hinterland side, and the outdoor spa is a genuine option for anyone whose legs remember standing through SIX60. The heated saltwater pool sits at 26°C for whoever's up early enough the next morning, the sauna and steam room cover the cooler stretches, and the tennis court and gardens fill in the day between the two shows. ![BBQ area with bench seating, overhead shelter and ocean views past tall palms](/assets/photos/facilities/marriner-views-gardens-bbq-area-1.jpg) ## Locking in the weekend A Thursday-to-Monday booking covers both concert nights with a full day either side, the Northcliffe stretch of sand fifty metres from the door for whoever needs to sit still for a morning before the next one. Check-in runs 2 to 5 pm, so a Friday arrival ahead of the first show is the simplest way in. [**Find your dates and book direct**](/contact/), or read more about the [Superior Two-Bedroom](/accommodation/2-bedroom-superior-apartment/) and the [Three-Bedroom Ocean View](/accommodation/3-bedroom-ocean-apartment/), both built for a group splitting one big weekend two ways. Tickets for both nights, and whatever else joins the eleven-day bill, are booked through the [official BLEACH Festival site](https://bleachfestival.com.au/). ## More from the blog. ### [Pacific Airshow Gold Coast 2026: room to watch from the quiet end](/experience/blog/pacific-airshow-2026/) Travel tips ### [The Gold Coast Show 2026: a long-weekend base on Fern Street](/experience/blog/gold-coast-show/) Travel tips ### [Crafted Beer Festival 2026: bring the group, keep the apartment](/experience/blog/crafted-beer-festival-broadbeach/) Travel tips ### [Groundwater 2026 from Fern Street: walking distance to a free festival](/experience/blog/groundwater-2026/) Local guide ### [Gold Coast 500 2026: walking distance, sleeping distance](/experience/blog/gold-coast-500/) Travel tips ### [The Gold Coast Marathon recovery base between two beaches](/experience/blog/gold-coast-marathon/) Travel tips [View all posts](/experience/blog/)