Café Royal Books is the kind of gritty, underground gold that punches through the noise with raw, real stories—told frame by frame. They’re not a café, they’re not royal, and they’re definitely not books. What they are is a razor-sharp archive of DIY photo zines that scream with the unfiltered soul of street life, punk scenes, and counterculture past. No gloss, no polish— just truth, straight from the pavement.

David Corio — Backstage 1977-2000

Backstage 1977–2000 drops you behind the curtain and into the shadows where legends exhaled before the lights hit. From punk’s spit-soaked stages to hip-hop’s rising gods, Corio’s lens caught the unguarded moments—grit, grace, and everything in between. This is decades of music history, stripped of myth, shot in real time, and laid bare in grainy black and white.

BOOK SPECS:
36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm