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Rough Trade 25 Years On...

Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages, March 2001

ROUGH TRADE is 25 years old. In its early days, you wouldn’t have got odds on the firm lasting another 25 weeks. And like so many creative anniversaries, you are celebrating longevity and durability, but noting also that the Golden Age was brief and quite some time ago.

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