Bar bodega
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Bar Bodega is a music venue in Wellington, New Zealand. Founded in 1991, it originally occupied a house earmarked for demolition by Transit New Zealand
to make way for an inner city motorway extension. Due to the continuing short-term nature of the lease, the venue continued to exist with a relatively make-shift appearance until 2001 when the motorway extension was finally started and the venue shifted into new premises on Ghuznee Street.
Bar Bodega was one of the few stages open almost exclusively to original New Zealand Bands and has played a vital role in nurturing the highly original and unusual music scene of New Zealand's capital city.
Virtually every New Zealand Band has played in this venue in the 1990s, very often in front of a very crowded house.
Many local Wellington bands had regular spots in Bar Bodega: The Gardening Angels, Letterbox Lambs, Breakfast of Champion, and Let's Planet, to name a few.
Regular appearances by Chris Knox
, Martin Phillipps and The Chills
, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
, David Kilgour
, The Renderers and many other household names of New Zealand music ensured a wide and loyal followship of this bar. The White Stripes
played at Bodega on their first New Zealand tour in 2000.
Transit New Zealand
Transit New Zealand was, from 1989 to 2008, the New Zealand Crown entity responsible for operating and planning the New Zealand State Highway network...
to make way for an inner city motorway extension. Due to the continuing short-term nature of the lease, the venue continued to exist with a relatively make-shift appearance until 2001 when the motorway extension was finally started and the venue shifted into new premises on Ghuznee Street.
Bar Bodega was one of the few stages open almost exclusively to original New Zealand Bands and has played a vital role in nurturing the highly original and unusual music scene of New Zealand's capital city.
Virtually every New Zealand Band has played in this venue in the 1990s, very often in front of a very crowded house.
Many local Wellington bands had regular spots in Bar Bodega: The Gardening Angels, Letterbox Lambs, Breakfast of Champion, and Let's Planet, to name a few.
Regular appearances by Chris Knox
Chris Knox
Chris Knox is a New Zealand rock and roll musician, cartoonist, and DVD reviewer who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s, he formed the group Tall Dwarfs with guitarist Alec Bathgate, much loved for their honest,...
, Martin Phillipps and The Chills
The Chills
The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin Sound.- History :...
, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, later renamed JPS Experience after a lawsuit by the estate of Jean-Paul Sartre, were an indie rock band on New Zealand's Flying Nun Records.-History:...
, David Kilgour
David Kilgour (musician)
David Kilgour is a musician from Dunedin, a city in the South Island of New Zealand. He first started playing guitar as a teenager in the late 1970s...
, The Renderers and many other household names of New Zealand music ensured a wide and loyal followship of this bar. The White Stripes
The White Stripes
The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...
played at Bodega on their first New Zealand tour in 2000.