Heads Down: Shack
Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2006
MARCH 2006, and in Liverpool feral rat-faced folk with the lean and hungry look seem to be everywhere. Junkies - on the street or selling lighters in the pub - like human vampires out to kill their pain.
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