Rough Trade 50th Anniversary Editions

1981: Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

A monument of experimental percussion, tape looping, found sound and sweet serendipity, Eno & Byrne’s first collaboration curated snippets of evangelist preachers, Algerian chants and US talk shows and tethered them to Afrobeat, funk, electronica. Visionary in 1981, it still sounds wildly futuristic today.

Includes

• Rough Trade Exclusive Mint Green vinyl
• Insert with exclusive stories and interviews with the people behind the music
• Limited to 1500 copies.

Tracklist

1. America Is Waiting
2. Mea Culpa
3. Regiment
4. Help Me Somebody
   
5. The Jezebel Spirit
6. Very, Very Hungry
7. Moonlight in Glory
8. The Carrier
9. A Secret Life
10. Come with Us
11. Mountain of Needles

More than a record store. Since 1976.

The year 2026 marks five decades of Rough Trade. From a small shop on West London's Kensington Park Road to a global community of music heads, it’s been half a century of backing counterculture, celebrating the physical format and championing creativity. We exist to serve the die-hards and the curious alike - fiercely independent, always chasing what’s next.

This is 50.