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 enigmatic London based post-punk 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 (Matador / Remote Control).

With The Guardian noting that they’ve been “...breathlessly feted as London’s most exciting new band”, bar italia’s economical yet evocative song craft takes raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally sinister, and wholly committed turns – these are exhilarating rock songs, if wayward and strange…