About

The Hacienda (a name borrowed from the historical Manchester club) is a music project formed by five guys from Florence.
In 2009 the band released their first EP “Conversation Less”.
The promotion tour took the band to play more than 130 shows between Italy and for the first time even across the borders in an European tour that took place between Germany, Uk, Austria, Czech Republic.
The band also shared the stage with acts like Kasabian, The Kooks, Futureheads, Twisted Wheel and Deep Purple.
Concluding the tour in August of 2010, The Hacienda started the recording session of the new album “Picking Pennies Off The Floor”.
The band presented the new songs in front of 30,000 people for the main concert for New Years Eve outside the Piazza Stazione in Florence.
The LP, released in 2011, received positive reviews from italian music critics leading the band to support Beady Eye in their Italian tour.
During the tour in fall 2011 the Hacienda played few shows with Catfish and the Bottlemen in northern England and Wales.
In 2012 the band came out with a special split Ep with another band called Wemen.
The following tour consisted of a series of gigs across Italy and Uk, opening a show for Black Lips and appear at the Hungarian festival Sziget in the summer of 2013.The band is set to release a new EP on October 10th 2015.