THE RECESSION: A COMPANY IN PROFILE THE ROUGH TRADE GROUP It's a right Rough Trade, is the entertainment business! For the Final Year Project of my A Level equivalent course ( BTEC National Certificate in Business and Finance ) which I completed at what was then Huddersfield Technical College (now Kirklees College Huddersfield Centre ), I submitted an assignment entitled: "The Recession and Rough Trade" , which involved me investigating and examining the impact of the economic decline of the time in 1991 on an iconic record label. I was required to relay my findings by means of a presentation, which I was able to achieve with the aid of some significant props. These were vinyl releases (from my personal collection) by The Smiths , by a considerable distance the biggest success story in the "indie" music scene in which the label founder Geoff Travis , who signed the band to Rough Trade before they split in 1987, played a huge part. The lege
The mad ramblings of The Girl Least Likely To, relating to my ongoing and everlasting obsession with The Smiths and Morrissey