Dayes

Dayes and his older brothers would peer from its open-plan and adjustable walls out of big windows on to thick, green foliage at the top of One Tree Hill, a patch of woodland where, he says, “You wouldn’t think you’re in the heart of Lewisham.

Dayes spent his teens as part of the United Vibrations quartet alongside two of his brothers – Ahmad on trombone, Kareem on bass – and saxophonist Wayne Francis.