DO IT YOURSELF: THE STORY OF ROUGH TRADE RECORDS

BBC4 - 2009

CHRIS WILSON - PRODUCER, DIRECTOR & EDITOR

The definitive inside story of pioneering independent record label Rough Trade, featuring its idealistic founders Geoff Travis and Richard Scott, alongside artists including Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Green Gartside (Scritti Politti), Albert Hammond (The Strokes), Robert Wyatt, Jarvis Cocker and Duffy. From its humble beginnings as a local record shop, the film charts the label’s rise, dramatic implosion in the 1980s, and re-invention a decade later. It’s a tale of politics and business, and of the age-old tensions between commerce and art - all set to a cracking soundtrack of ground-breaking era-defining music.

Prospect Pictures for BBC4