Various - Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 1976

Review by Tom King

Long before Rough Trade Records came 202 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill; a record shop selling new punk records alongside DIY releases and JA imports. In the neverending democratization of music this was the year when, to those in the know, the Man finally became ‘the Man’. Hindsight will quite inevitably place 1976 as the year before 1977, as will chronology. But the cracks appearing in the establishment circa ‘77 were not fashioned in the art schools or dole queues...»