Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade (movie)
- User score: 8
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Chris Wilson
- Production companies: BBC
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Release date: 3/13/2009
- Run time: 88 min.
Movie description
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.
