The World of The Smiths and Morrissey by Angie J Cooke nee Lewis

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...

#MOZARMY MEET 2019 For the 3 rd year running, my husband Jay and I attended the (seventh!) #MozArmy Meet that was held this year on 4 th May to celebrate all things The Smiths and Mozzer.  It’s an event that we’ve both come to look forward to immensely, as we always thoroughly enjoy not only meeting old friends, but making new acquaintances also. This year was no different, except that it was the best yet!   We had a grand old time, it was such fun! As well as the obvious (The Smiths and Morrissey, but of course!), I would also like to thank the wonderful Julie Hamill for her tireless efforts putting on this great get together every year, The Gill Family and in particular Rose and Georgia, John Robb, Andy Barnett, Stefan Krix, Salford Lads Club, the Star and Garter,  The(se) Smiths (unfortunately, I didn't get any pics of their frankly incredible set regrettably, but I can assure you that Big Jimmy and the boys were on bloody fire!),  and last but by no...