Currumbin RSL Paint and Sip Recap: 120 Belters, Lotti in Full 80s Glam, La Bocca on Pizza Duty

Currumbin RSL, you absolute beauty. 120 belters in one room and not a single quiet one among you.

Some Paint Juicy nights are a gentle little affair in a cosy corner of a cosy venue. Currumbin RSL was not one of those. This was a proper big one. 120 guests packed into the massive function room upstairs, the whole place looking out over Currumbin Creek like a postcard, Lotti Rem on the mic dressed to the absolute nines in full 80s and 90s glam, two hosting bees buzzing around keeping the paint flowing, multiple artists running demos so every corner of the enormous room could actually see what they were meant to be painting, and a dancefloor that basically built itself by the halfway point. It was a full Gold Coast night in every sense and we are still grinning about it.

If you have not been to a Currumbin Paint and Sip session yet, this recap is your sign to fix that.

The whole night had that specific kind of buzz that only happens when a room is properly full, the view out the window is doing its own heavy lifting, and the bar is keeping up with every single request. Currumbin RSL ticked every single box we brought with us, and then a few extra ones we did not know we had.

The Room, The View, The Whole Vibe

The function room at Currumbin RSL is a genuine weapon. Massive space, high ceilings, the kind of big open floor plan that can host 120 painters without anyone feeling squashed up against the next table. And then you look out the windows and there is Currumbin Creek doing its absolute best photobomb impression behind everything. It is the sort of view that you think must be a paid upgrade and then you realise it is just sitting there as a free bonus feature for every single guest in the room.

We have run Paint Juicy nights in all sorts of spaces. Blank function rooms. Pubs. Bowls clubs. Private backyards. Brewery taprooms. The occasional bit of sprawling lawn. Every venue has its own personality and Currumbin RSL's personality is "spacious, scenic, surprisingly slick, with a bar that can keep up with 120 thirsty painters". That is a personality we can absolutely work with.

And yes, before anyone asks, the toilets are lovely. There is even an elevator. We are saying it because we noticed, and because when you are running a night for 120 guests these are the details that actually matter. Proper venue. Proper thought has gone into it. Proper respect.

Lotti Showed Up Dressed to the Absolute Nines

Let us take a moment to properly celebrate Lotti Rem's outfit. Full 80s and 90s glam from head to toe. The kind of look you do not just throw on, you commit to. Shoulder pads, sparkle, the whole package, every bit of it on-theme for the Singalong set list she was about to deliver. If you are going to front a 120-person Paint and Sip night with an 80s and 90s playlist, you may as well look like you walked straight out of the music video yourself, and Lotti absolutely did.

The crowd noticed immediately. You could feel the room gear up as soon as she walked out. A great outfit is not just decoration, it is a promise. It tells the audience "I am here, I am ready, we are about to have a night". And Lotti delivered on every single syllable of that promise from the opening track to the final encore singalong.

Her voice was on, her energy was on, her wardrobe was on, and she absolutely lit the whole room up. Currumbin RSL got the full Lotti Rem experience and Currumbin RSL knew exactly what to do with it.

Multiple Artists, Two Buzzing Bees, One Very Well-Run Room

Here is a fun logistical bit we should talk about. Running a Paint Juicy session for 120 guests in a single enormous room is a different beast to running one for 40 guests in a cosy little venue. You cannot have one artist at the front of the room demonstrating the next step and hoping every single painter in the far corner can see what is happening. Physics is not your friend there. So we brought multiple artists on deck, spread across the room, each one demonstrating the next brush step so that no matter where your table was sitting, you had a clear view of someone showing you exactly what to do.

On top of that, we had two absolute gems of helpers buzzing around the whole floor like very focused little hosting bees. Topping up paints. Swapping out brushes. Answering the quick questions painters did not want to stop a whole demo for. Making sure nobody was left staring at a blank canvas wondering what the next step even was. The difference this makes on a 120-guest night is enormous. Every single painter had actual hands-on support the second they needed it, and the whole room stayed on the same beat from the opening brush to the final detail.

Big nights need a big team. We brought the team. The team was brilliant. Thank you team.

The Singalong Was Pure 80s and 90s Filth (In the Best Possible Way)

Lotti's 80s and 90s set list was exactly the right call for this room. Currumbin is firmly in the Paint Juicy core demographic sweet spot, and when you drop a proper nostalgic banger playlist on a 120-person Gold Coast crowd you are essentially handing them the keys to their own favourite era and letting them take it for a spin.

The first chorus landed loud. The second chorus landed louder. By the third song there was already a loose cluster of people who were doing more singing than painting, and by the midway point of the night the singalong had fully taken over as the main event with the painting happening in the gaps. Which is the Paint Juicy sweet spot exactly. We never want the painting to be the main event. We want the night to be the main event and the painting to be the lovely thing you take home at the end of it.

Karaoke Moments and a Dancefloor That Built Itself

A few tracks into the set we dropped the first karaoke moment of the night, and the response was instant. A handful of guests who had been quietly warming up for an hour suddenly wanted on that mic. Duets were getting negotiated at tables. Song requests were flying. One group had a very specific karaoke plan they had clearly been cooking since the day they booked the tickets, and we absolutely let them run with it.

And then, somewhere around the second karaoke moment, a dancefloor appeared. We did not organise it. Currumbin RSL did not organise it. It just formed on its own in front of the stage, the way these things do when the energy in the room crosses a certain threshold. A dozen people got up first. Then a few more. Then a whole cluster of tables. By the end of the night there were guests properly grooving in between paint layers, hopping back to their canvases for the next step, then heading straight back to the dancefloor as soon as their brush was down. It was glorious to watch and it is exactly what a big room at Currumbin RSL was built to do.

La Bocca Downstairs Was the Secret Weapon

Let us talk about food, because food matters at a night like this. Currumbin RSL had their own extremely clever Paint and Sip drinks and snacks menu on offer, which gave the painting crowd a nice easy option to graze between brush strokes. But the absolute kicker was that guests could also order in from La Bocca, the gorgeous little Pizzaria and Bottle Shop sitting directly downstairs. Hot pizza delivered straight up to the function room. Yes please. Yes thank you. More of that please.

That kind of venue setup is rare and brilliant. Big function room upstairs, proper pizza and bottle shop downstairs, elevator in between, all under one roof. It means guests can have their full Paint Juicy experience with exactly the food they actually want, and the drinks flowing the whole time. The RSL team members were absolute champions running food and drinks all night from every direction. They never stopped. The schooners kept coming, the pizzas kept arriving, the cocktails kept flowing, and not a single painter had to wait around with an empty hand for long.

Proper props to everyone behind the bar and on the floor that night. You held the whole thing up and you did it with smiles. Respect.

The Canvases Came Out Brilliant

Here is the best part. With 120 painters in one room, multiple artists running demos across the floor, hosting bees keeping everyone on track and the energy sitting at absolutely 11 from the moment Lotti hit the stage, the canvases came out looking unreasonably good. Bold colour, confident brushwork, every table with its own slight twist on the same painting, every single one walking out the door at the end of the night in proud hands.

A few groups had clearly decided to coordinate their palettes in advance. A few painters went completely off-script in the best way and made their own little masterpiece. A few more had their canvases up for photos before the paint had even properly dried, which is our favourite kind of commitment to the bit. Every canvas told a slightly different story and the room had that brilliant "look what I actually made" buzz in the last fifteen minutes that we live for.

Why Currumbin RSL Is Now Permanently On Our List

Some venues we run once and move on from. Some we come back to a few times. Currumbin RSL went straight onto the Paint Juicy "forever venue" list after this one single night. Here is why.

The room is properly big, properly spacious and properly scenic. The staff were absolute legends from setup through to pack-down. The food and drinks operation was seamless. The extra La Bocca pizza option from downstairs is the sort of detail that turns a good night into a great one. And the view of Currumbin Creek out the windows did not hurt a thing. Every single element lined up, and the 120-guest crowd in the room felt it from the first song onward.

Gold Coast Paint and Sip nights are a dime a dozen if you are willing to settle for average. We are not. Currumbin RSL is absolutely not average. It is one of the best function spaces on the whole southern Gold Coast for a Paint Juicy night and we will be back often.

We Will Absolutely Be Back

If you were in that room, thank you. 120 is a big number and every single one of you brought the energy this night needed. You sang. You danced. You painted. You ordered pizza. You ordered more drinks. You took your canvases home with proper pride. You absolutely made Currumbin RSL one of the biggest, loudest, loveliest Paint Juicy nights of the year on the Gold Coast so far.

Keep an eye on the Currumbin Paint and Sip calendar. New Currumbin RSL dates are being locked in already. Do not be the friend-of-a-friend who hears about the next one a week too late.

Thinking About Coming to a Currumbin Paint and Sip?

Short version. You do not need to paint. You do not need to sing. You do not need to dance. You do not need an 80s outfit (although you are absolutely welcome to bring one). You just need to show up, strap the apron on, pick up a brush, and let Paint Juicy run the whole night around you. We guide every brush stroke on the mic. We host the singalong. We run the karaoke moments. We make space for the dancefloor. Every guest leaves with a canvas at the end.

Public Currumbin RSL sessions from $59 per person. Private events for groups of 10 or more, including hens parties, birthdays, team events, Christmas parties and any other excuse you can find, can be booked at Currumbin RSL or anywhere else across the Gold Coast corridor.

Currumbin RSL, Lotti in full 80s glam, La Bocca pizza, the hosting bees, the RSL team and every single one of the 120 legends in that room, thank you for a properly big night. See you back here soon.