BANISHED MUSIC & STRANGE NEWS PRESENT
STRANGE UNIVERSE: AUTUMN EDITION - MARCH 2026
SMERZ (NORWAY) & ERNY BELLE (DUO)
WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
THE BATS CELEBRATE CORNER COMING UP (NZ)
& HALFSISTER
SATURDAY 7 MARCH - HOLLYWOOD AVONDALE
NABIHAH IQBAL (DJ SET) & MARIAM
SATURDAY 7 MARCH - NECK OF THE WOODS
TY SEGALL (USA) & GUITAR WOLF (JAPAN)
TUESDAY 10 MARCH - POWERSTATION
ANNAHSTASIA (USA) & NA’AMAH CHEIBAN
WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH - PITT ST METHODIST CHURCH
JOLIE HOLLAND (USA) & STEVE ABEL
FRIDAY 13 MARCH - PITT ST METHODIST CHURCH
DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞİMŞEK (GERMANY)
& WAIWHAI.
SUNDAY 15 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
LES BIG BYRD (SWEDEN) & SULFATE
TUESDAY 24 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
Tickets and info from www.banishedmusic.com
SMERZ - WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
This genre-bending duo from Norway have been causing a beautiful stir this year, with the likes of Pitchfork going ape over the “retrofuturist warehouse pop” of Smerz’s 2025 album Big city life. While the pairing of Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt is impossible to pin down to a single sound, Boomkat labelled them “a sort of genius missing link between Astrid Sonne, Cibo Matto and Luscious Jackson”, and The Quietus placed them “in the zone where club music, art-school minimalism, and emotional confession overlap”. Smerz have invited the one-and-only Erny Belle to join the bill at Double Whammy for one of her only shows of the season!
Amazing artwork by Anns Taylor
