Services
Three services built around what Brisbane venues and event clients actually need.
Service 01
For bars, nightclubs and restaurants that need consistent, quality entertainment every week without the overhead of managing DJs themselves.
We source and vet your DJs, set music policies in writing, build your weekly calendar, and guarantee cover if a DJ can't make a show.
Already have DJs you like? Keep them. We'll bring them onto our roster. How it works
Single rate per hour. No lock-in. Best for smaller bars testing DJ entertainment.
Flat weekly management fee scaling with your nights. Best value for venues running 3+ nights.
What's included
Your current DJs come onto our roster with the same brief, cover and super as ours. Swap in our DJs only where you need them.
Every DJ is vetted on professionalism, attention to detail, experience and character, then matched to your venue. How we match DJs
Genre, BPM range, must-avoids, volume by time of night. Agreed in writing before their first shift.
If a DJ can't make it, we find cover. You'll never have an empty booth on a DJ night.
We coordinate all bookings, confirmations and rosters. One point of contact, no chasing.
12% on every booking, remitted correctly through the ATO clearing house.
One clean invoice per week. No per-DJ admin, no separate expense claims.
How we match DJs
We draw on a network of around 50 vetted Brisbane DJs across every format. There's no fixed roster. Every booking is matched to your venue, your night and your crowd.
We vet DJs on how they work, not how many likes they have. That means arriving early, communicating clearly, following the brief and respecting your venue and staff.
Volume by time of night, knowing when to build and when to hold back, sticking to the must-avoids. The small things that decide whether a night works.
Real venue experience behind the booth, and the kind of person you'd want representing your venue to every guest who walks in.
CDJ, vinyl, and live saxophone and instrumentalists. We match the format to the room as carefully as the music.
Sounds we cover
Brunch and day sessions
Bottomless brunches and weekend day sessions need a different energy to a Saturday night. We pair one of our DJs with a live saxophonist or another live instrumentalist, playing house, disco and soul edits.
The volume stays right for dining and conversation early, then builds as the session warms up. Book it as a one-off for a big weekend or as a regular weekly or monthly slot.
We'll come back to you within 24 hours.
Retail and brand events
DJs for in-store launches, VIP shopping nights, new collection drops, fashion events and late-night trading, plus precinct and shopping centre activations. On-brand music at the right volume for a store, with live saxophone or another live instrumentalist if you want a feature act.
For every day, we build store playlists around your brand and your customers and refresh them weekly. The first two weeks are free.
We'll come back to you within 24 hours.
Service 02
Every hour your venue is open matters — not just the DJ nights. Nocturnals curates and manages your background music on Spotify.
We profile your venue and crowd, build playlists matched to your vibe and trading hours, and refresh them every week so the music never goes stale.
From $35 per playlist per week (ex GST), with a two-week free trial.
How it works
15 quick questions about your concept, crowd, trading hours and preferences.
We build your suite — one for each time block. Genre-matched, BPM-appropriate.
We set your playlists up on Spotify and share them with your venue directly.
Every week we rotate fresh tracks in and tired ones out. Nothing to do on your end.
Service 03
DJ entertainment for birthdays, corporate functions, staff parties and brand events. Flat packages based on set length, 3-hour minimum booking.
Types of events we cover
How it works
Tell us the date, venue, guest count and hours. We confirm availability and send a quote within 24 hours.
Based on your event and music preferences, we match you to the right DJ from our network of around 50 vetted Brisbane DJs.
Two weeks before the event, your DJ contacts you directly — must-plays, must-avoids, event timeline.
DJ arrives 60 minutes early for setup and soundcheck. Anything goes wrong, you call Nocturnals.
Questions
Yes. Tell us who they are and we'll bring them onto our roster. They keep their nights at your venue and get the same written music brief as the rest of our DJs. We handle their bookings, super and pay, and you get one weekly invoice. If one of them can't make a shift, we find cover.
Yes. Keep your regulars on the nights they work best, and we'll fill the other nights and any cancellations from our network of around 50 vetted Brisbane DJs.
No. They can keep their other gigs. We just look after their nights at your venue.
More questions? See the homepage FAQs or send us an enquiry.
Not sure where to start?
We visit during trading, check your music, volume and DJ setup, and send you a written summary with the three changes that would make the biggest difference. No cost, no obligation.
We'll point you in the right direction.
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