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Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade

Name: Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade
Director: Chris Wilson
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2009-03-13T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Marc Warren, Geoff Travis, Robert Wyatt, Mayo Thompson, Johnny Marr

20091h 28m

DocumentaryMusic

Overview

The Rough Trade story begins more than thirty years ago on 20th February 1976. Britain was in the grip of an IRA bombing campaign; a future prime minister was beginning to make her mark on a middle England in which punk was yet to run amok; and a young Cambridge graduate called Geoff Travis opened a new shop at 202 Kensington Park Road, just off Ladbroke Grove in west London. The Rough Trade shop sold obscure and challenging records by bands like American art-rockers Pere Ubu, offering an alternative to the middle-of-the-road rock music that dominated the music business.