bar italia First Ever NZ Show Sunday 2 June Neck Of The Woods, Auckland

Strange News Touring & Banished Music proudly present an intimate one-off show for UK indie darlings bar italia, playing Sunday 2 June at Karangahape Road’s underground haunt Neck of the Woods.The London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton are finally set to bring their inimitable and intriguing sound to Aotearoa, plucking tunes from their Dean Blunt-released early work to the two full length 2023 releases The Twits and Tracey Denim.

bar italia’s economical yet evocative song craft takes raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally sinister, and wholly committed turns.

Songs like my little tony, with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of world’s greatest emoter and the festival tent psychedelia of Hi-fiver need little in the way of exposition – these are exhilarating rock songs, if wayward and strange…

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SUNDAY 2 JUNE
NECK OF THE WOODS, AUCKLAND
PRE-SALE TICKETS
Pre-sale password: TWITS

Banished Music pre-sale starts Thursday 28 March, 10AM
General on sale – Friday 29 March, 10AM