Rough Trade Records: Difference between revisions

| founded = {{start date|19761978}}

Rough Trade began as a record shop, opened by [[Geoff Travis]] on Kensington Park Road, West London, in February 1976, with Travis reportedly taking the shop name from the Canadian [[art punk]]/[[new wave music|new wave]] band [[Rough Trade (band)|Rough Trade]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Rob|title=Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited|year=2006|publisher=Black Dog Publishing|location=London|isbn=1904772471|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtunaUIgxsEC}}</ref> It was inspired by what Travis has described as the "community-based environment" of the [[City Lights Bookstore]] in San Francisco, and specialised in [[garage rock]] and [[reggae]]. Steve Montgomery, initially a customer of the shop, was offered a job soon after it opened and became its effective co-manager. Travis and Montgomery were joined by a further employee, Richard Scott, in June 1977.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Neil|title=Document and Eyewitness: An Intimate History of Rough Trade|year=2010|publisher=Orion Books|location=London|isbn=9781409112211|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqQbgGhFCr8C&q=Do+It+Yourself+the+Rough+Trade+Story}}</ref><ref name=Marr>{{cite news|last=Marr|first=Johnny|title=Johnny Marr interviews Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/10/johnny-marr-rough-trade-travis|access-date=30 October 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 September 2009}}</ref> Label activities began in 1978<ref>{{Cite web |title=Document and eyewitness: an intimate history of Rough Trade – National Library of Scotland Blog |url=https://blog.nls.uk/document-and-eyewitness-an-intimate-history-of-rough-trade/ |access-date=2023-04-30 |language=en-GB}}</ref>.