BAR ITALIA JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

In the thick of a sweat-soaked room, two people are passionately tearing at each other’s clothes to a backdrop of loud music. Sounds like Berlin? It’s Bermondsey. And the source of music isn’t a thudding techno DJ, it’s the experimental rock-pop band Bar Italia. “It was a tiny room, I don't know how they were managing to do that,” ponders Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, one-third of the group alongside Sam Fenton and Nina Cristante, who sit beside him as we talk in late 2023.