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PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
DOCUMENTING the rapidly changing look and feel of an increasingly privatised and enclosed contemporary London, Savage Messiah was a pre-digital cut-and-paste fanzine of monochrome photographs, text and illustration.
Part-graphic novel, part-artwork, it described life through the eyes of a young woman in the capital during the early 1990s.
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