Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited

Book telling the history of the Rough Trade and the story of British independent music, with archive images, iterviews and unseen photographs and artefacts (190 pages, paperback, black & white/colour)

The Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited tells the engrossing story of one of England's most groundbreaking record labels. It is 30 years since the Rough Trade Shop first opened its doors in Notting Hill, London. Disco and soft-rock ruled the airwaves, The Clash had just signed to CBS and Geoff Travis set up the company with some friends as a communistic, DIY alternative to the increasingly stale mainstream. Over the ensuing years the Rough Trade Shop, Rough Trade Records and Rough Trade Distribution profoundly altered the landscape of modern music.

The Rough Trade looks back on 3 fascinating decades of innovation, noise and change, taking in ups and downs, twists and turns and some of the best music ever committed to vinyl. The label released many of the most important records of the late 1970s and 80s by artists including: The Smiths, Scritti Politti, Mazzy Star, The Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, Arthur Russell and Linton Kwesi Johnson. The Rough Trade profiles these artists and much more, as both the history of the Rough Trade and by proxy the story of British independent music over the last 30 years are engagingly chronicled. Visually stunning, the Rough Trade is filled with archive images, interviews and previously unseen photographs and artefacts.

Also known as: Labels Unlimited

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