What to know
- Australian singer and drummer G Flip played a packed 70-minute set at Toronto’s Mod Club on Saturday night.
- The show drew heavily from 2023’s Drummer and 2025’s Dream Ride, alongside older songs and several surprises.
- The Beaches’ Jordan Miller and Leandra Earl joined G Flip onstage for their collaboration “LEZ GO!”G Flip moved between vocals, drums and saxophone while also performing from the venue’s balcony.
- The artist emphasized inclusivity and audience safety throughout a show that felt as much like a celebration of community as a concert.
My concert companion Andrew called Aussie singer/drummer G Flip’s show at the Mod Club in Toronto Saturday night (Aug. 8) “pure queer joy.”
He was thrilled to see how happy and safe people appeared to feel in the packed house for the non-binary pop artist who has won several ARIA Awards, Australia’s equivalent of a Juno or Grammy.
There were plenty of public displays of affection in the audience — a lot of date nights — and a visible comfort level among the mostly sapphic crowd. Beyond that distinction, it was 70-minute show of radio-ready catchy pop songs from their 2023 album Drummer and 2025’s Dream Ride, a couple from their 2019 debut About Us, and several surprises.
Born Georgia Flipa, the mega-talented G Flip who is married to actress and Selling Sunset real estate star Chrishell Stause, has been steadily expanding their global audience, thanks in part to the prominence of “Bed on Fire” in the Amazon Prime hit series Off Campus.
For Canadians, they’ve also become increasingly familiar through their collaborations and friendship with Juno Award-winning local rock band The Beaches. Together, they wrote and produced The Beaches’ “Last Girls at the Party,” while The Beaches contributed to G Flip’s “LEZ GO!” Earlier this year, G Flip had The Beaches open their Australian tour, and then The Beaches had G Flip come out during their Coachella debut.
So, having members of The Beaches hop onstage at the Mod Club was not out of the realm of possibility.
As the band took the stage right at 9 p.m., chants of “G Flip” began before the opening number, “Disco Cowgirl,” with the crowd immediately singing along. Dressed in a ballcap, black biker jacket and red jorts, they followed with the buzzing, sexually charged “GAY 4 ME,” bringing out a Progress Pride flag and setting the tone for the hour ahead: fun, inclusivity and community.
The ’80s-style pop of “I Don’t Wanna Regret” was celebratory and anthemic, with G Flip playing the saxophone. “I love you and I love your people,” they told the crowd, wishing everyone a fantastic night.
Then they blew everyone away by singing “Drink Too Much / Real Life / Hyperfine” from the balcony on the other side of the room.
Back where they belong on the stage, G Flip asked how many people had been to one of their shows before. They played Toronto in 2023 at Lavender Wild Festival at Echo Beach and in October 2025 at History.
Then came the house rules.
“You’re not allowed to be a dickhead,” they announced, essentially asking everyone to get along. Easy enough to follow.
“We love the LGBTQIA+ community,” they added, praising anyone dealing with anxiety or depression simply “for showing up.” They also established a safety rule: if anyone needed help, audience members could wave their phones around and G Flip would stop the show to help whoever needed it.
“Next, if you know the words to my fuckin’ songs, sing it with your whole fuckin’ chest,” they instructed, adding that everyone should “have an open heart” because, as they noted, lots of people have fallen in love at their shows.
G Flip then delivered the soulful ballad “Be Your Man,” with the crowd singing along, before finally getting behind the drum kit for “Good Enough,” switching places with Ben Ellingworth, followed by an extended drum solo. For “Rough,” G Flip was back out front, the audience clapping overhead and some people even jumping.
G Flip then talked about being in Toronto in January, when the city was hit with a “big ol’ blizzard,” or “mega blizzard,” as they called it. It was only the third time they had seen snow. The first was when they were 23 (they’re now 32). They described putting on all their clothes and going out into the street “like a starfish,” falling into the snow — presumably making a snow angel — and later asking the crew to teach them how to make snowballs. They then started “smashing me with snowballs, so I can feel what it felt like.” It felt “interesting” they concluded.
Saturday’s sweltering summer weather must have felt a little more like home for G Flip, who added that Toronto reminds them of Melbourne.
They then introduced the next song, “Lover,” by explaining that they wrote it “as a sad lesbian” trying to get their ex-girlfriend back. “It ended up working, but then we broke up and it doesn’t matter. But I got some good songs out of it.”
After the soaring pop standout “In Another Life,” G Flip brought out The Beaches’ Jordan Miller and Leandra Earl for “LEZ GO!” The three spent the song jumping, hugging and clearly having a blast together, ending with G Flip on Earl’s back, before they left the stage.
G Flip then sang her cover of Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” which they recorded/filmed for Triple J’s Like A Version series two years ago and has more than 2.8 million views on YouTube.
For “The Worst Person Alive,” G Flip hopped back behind the drum kit before wrapping up the set with “Bed on Fire,” the song many in the room likely knew from Off Campus.
There was no encore. Rather than disappearing backstage and waiting for the predictable chants of “one more song,” G Flip told the audience they weren’t going to leave because encores are “wankerish.”
So they simply stayed and finished the night with “Bed on Fire” — with its triumphant “Oh, oh, oh-whoa, oh, oh, oh-whoa” — a fitting closer for a show as G Flip had set the Mod on Fire.
