Bar Italia share confident single ‘Rooster’ from new album ‘Some Like It Hot’ and announce 2026 UK and European tour

Bar Italia have shared a new single called ‘Rooster’ and added more dates to their upcoming tour. Check out the details below.

The new single marks the latest preview of the band’s forthcoming album ‘Some Like It Hot’, which is set for release on October 17 via Matador.

It follows on from previous singles ‘Cowbella’ and ‘Fundraiser’, and sees the group deliver captivating grooves alongside sinister guitar elements. It also comes with a new music video, in which the band deliver a powerful and unhinged rendition of the song.

Check out the new visuals directed by Simon Mercer below, and visit here to pre-order the album.

As well as announcing the new song, the band have also added more new shows to their itinerary, announcing dates across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the UK and Europe.

Dates kick off with an album release show on October 18 in London, and continues with stops in Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands later that month. The US leg of the tour commences in November, before the band head over to Australia and New Zealand at the end of the year.

The tour picks up again at the end of January 2026 with two shows in Japan, and then see the members head over to Europe again for the next two months. Dates in Switzerland, Italy, Germany and more are scheduled here, and the tour wraps up with a handful of UK dates.

UK and Ireland shows include gigs in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol, before wrapping up with Bar Italia’s biggest show to date at London’s Roundhouse on March 26.

Support comes from xmal, Voyeur and Lifeguard, and you can visit here for UK tickets, here for US and European tickets, and here for Australia and New Zealand tickets.

Bar Italia’s 2025-2026 tour dates are

OCTOBER
18 – London, UK – The Dome (SOLD OUT) *
22 – Milan, Italy – Santeria
23 – Barcelona, Spain – La 2 de Apolo
24 – Madrid, Spain – Sala Mon
28 – Paris, France – La Maroquinerie (SOLD OUT) *
29 – Liege, Belgium – Reflektor *
30 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Toekomstmuziek (SOLD OUT) *

NOVEMBER
05 – San Diego, US – Whistlestop #

06 – Los Angeles, US – The Bellwether #

08 – San Francisco, US – The Regency Ballroom #

10 – Portland, US – Aladdin Theatre #
11 – Seattle, US – Neumos #
12 – Vancouver, CA – Hollywood Theatre #
14– Chicago, US – Thalia Hall $
15 – Cleveland, US – Beachland Ballroom $
16– Columbus, US – Ace of Cups *
18 – Pittsburgh, US – Spirit Hall *
19 – Washington, US – Black Cat *
21 – Philadelphia, US – Warehouse on Watts *
22 – Brooklyn, US – Brooklyn Paramount $
24 – Boston, US – Paradise Rock Club $
25 – Montreal, CA – Club Soda $
27– Toronto, CA – The Concert Hall $
28 – Buffalo, US – Nietzche’s $
29 – Woodstock, US – Bearsville Theatre $

DECEMBER
06 – Melbourne, Australia – Meredith Music Festival
07 – Melbourne, Australia – Northcote Theatre
10 – Sydney, Australia – The Metro
11 – Brisbane, Australia – Crowbar
13– Auckland, New Zealand – Hollywood Avondale
14 – Wellington, New Zealand – Meow

JANUARY 2026
21 – Tokyo, Japan – Liquidroom
22 – Osaka, Japan – Shangri-La

FEBRUARY
24 – Lille, France – Aéronef
25– Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
26 – Paris, France – Élysée-Montmartre
28 – Bordeaux, France – Rock School Barbey

MARCH
01 – Nantes, France – Stereolux
03 – Bern, Switzerland – Dampfzentrale
05 – Turin, Italy – Milk
06 – Rome, Italy – Hacienda
07 – Bologna, Italy – TPO
09 – Munich, Germany – Ampere
10 – Berlin, Germany – Festsaal Kreuzberg
13– Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
14 – Hamburg, Germany – Knust
15 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
18 – Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
19– Belfast, Ireland – Empire Music Hall
20 – Glasgow, UK – St Luke’s
22 – Leeds, UK – The Irish Centre
24 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2
25 – Bristol, UK – Trinity
26– London, UK – Roundhouse

* xmal
# Voyeur
$ Lifeguard

The title for the band’s new album is inspired by the 1959 film of the same name, which starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as a group of rogue musicians.

Outside of the group, the band’s own Nina Cristante teamed up with Yves Tumor to share a collaborative track called ‘WE DONT COUNT’ this summer. It followed Cristante’s previous singles ‘TWINK’ and ‘Till the devil gets bored’, as well as ‘Discordia’ – a collaborative EP with fellow Roman artist Orazio.

Bar Italia’s third studio LP ‘Tracey Denim’ in 2023, which received a four-star review, NME wrote: “The 15 impressively arranged tracks on ‘Tracey Denim’ will only bolster Bar Italia’s discography to date, ushering them, whether they like it or not, even further into the spotlight.”