Grab your 2026 calendars and put a big red cross through the month of March, because Banished Music and Strange News have teamed up for a phenomenal series of shows in your favourite venues across Tāmaki Makaurau.

Having both run their own shows separately for two decades or more, independent Tāmaki Makaurau-based promoters Banished Music and Strange News put their heads together in 2022 and realised that by their powers combined they could throw on shows beyond either of their wildest dreams. Since then, the dynamic duo have brought us the likes of Pavement, Amyl & The Sniffers, Lucy Dacus, MJ Lenderman, Vieux Farka Touré, Parquet Courts, Bikini Kill, Weyes Blood, Tinariwen, and countless more. 

Now, it’s time to ramp things up and really get the party started! The full line-up across March is yet to be unveiled, but this first announcement is enough to melt our minds and have us looking forward to the new year like never before… And you better believe we are planning Strange Universe WINTER Edition already…  

Ladies and germs, introducing Strange Universe - Autumn Edition, featuring the return of American psych lord Ty Segall and his scorching band. We couldn’t be more hyped to finally announce the return of the guitar hero and his band, hot on the heels of his demonically radical new record Possession. Packed with an arsenal of his usual tricks - insane riffs, big noise, non-stop rawk - the album also incorporates shades of the 1960s, and what Mojo referred to as a “strutting glam-baroque”. Bringing with him his riders of the apocalypse Emmett Kelly, Mikal Cronin, Evan Burrows and Benjamin Boye, Ty is all set to shake the foundations of the mighty Powerstation with one all-powerful show.