Sunshine and Faith Disco Choir has a distinct style that has the audience leaping to their feet to its unique combination of disco and gospel.

The woman whose name inspired the group is Sunshine Trott. She remembers well how the band came to be after she set the crowd alight one night when she impulsively riffed live over a disco track.

“I wanted to write a gospel kind of techno track inspired by my DJ sound and through that journey it turned out to be really hard to find a choir that would sing on the record and also in the nightclub at two in the morning,” Sunshine said.

“They weren’t that keen for that. So that’s how I ended up starting my own choir. And it was really all about that first show, which was the first record release party and that energy at that first show, the merging of the DJ set with the live kind of element, I’d never experienced any kind of vibe in a club like that before and I just knew at that moment that it was something really special and I wanted to dedicate all my time to it, which I have been.”

The one-woman DJ set has now grown to a full 12-piece choir, turning music venues into churches and audience members into dancing disciples making disco their religion for the night.

“There’s something like, I don’t know, healing, having a big group of singers in the same room together,” she said.

“Even at our rehearsals, me, myself and some of the other choir members have said the same thing. You could be having the worst day and then go to rehearsal and just the energy that you get off everyone singing together, it’s really special.”

The costs of touring the live show with 13 people on the road, including all the costumes lighting and gear are such that this is the band’s first Queensland performance, and Sunshine can’t wait to bring their distinctive show to the sands of Surfers Paradise.

“I’m really looking forward to that. My brother lives on the Gold Coast, so I think he’s bringing kids, which will be really cool,” she said.

“But that’s one thing I’ve noticed in our performance it really is all ages, so I’m really looking forward to it. When we did Vivid in Sydney, it was everything from toddlers to grandparents and they were all loving it. So yeah, we’re really excited.

“I’ve put together a set of a really good mix of sing-alongs that people would know from the seventies until now. And then some of our originals. Brilliant. Some gospel classics.

“I think it’s taken a couple of years, but it feels like the music scene is kind of just getting momentum again.”

The Springtime festival comes to Surfers Paradise from September 1 to 3.