Bar Bodega is a former music venue in

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that closed in 2016. Founded in 1991, it originally occupied a house earmarked for demolition by

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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 makeshift appearance until 2001 when the motorway extension was finally started and the venue shifted into new premises on Ghuznee Street, a former

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factory and warehouse. The old location was later purchased by restaurateurs Lorenzo and Leonardo Bresolin in 2014. 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 played in this venue in the 1990s, very often in front of a very crowded house. Many local Wellington bands had regular spots there: The Gardening Angels, Letterbox Lambs, Breakfast of Champion, Jahailer and Let's Planet, to name a few. Regular appearances by

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and

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, The Renderers and many other household names of New Zealand music ensured a wide and loyal following of this bar.

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played at Bodega on their first New Zealand tour in 2000.

References

External links

Bodega MySpace page
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