Bar Italia

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  Seven Songs for the Week #130 - 1st Oct 2025

  Jason Carty

  Listened to Different Class from start to finish this week for the first time in forever. Being an album of the CD age, I would say that the backend from F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. onwards is the least familiar territory. The closing track, Bar Italia, pushed a button:

  "There's only one place we can go / It's 'round the corner in Soho / Where other broken people go"

  When I bought this album I don't think I would've known what Bar Italia was, but while living in London I became aware of it as an always-open (nearly) refuge. I might not have been clubbing like Jarvis, but after a run of night shifts, as exhausted as you are, it was always satisfying to see people going to work when you had the brief magic feeling of nowhere to go.

  https://www.theinfatuation.com/london/reviews/bar-italia