Indie takes on the Falklands war

November 1982: Number 25 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe brainchild of Cherry Red's Iain McNay, a chart dedicated to independent labels debuted in 1980. In its early years, barely a week went by without an appearance by anarcho-punks Crass. Recorded during the Falklands war in May, flexidiscs of How Does it Feel to Be the Mother of 1,000 Dead? were smuggled, guerrilla-style, into random albums by distributors Rough Trade. It sailed out under its own steam in N...

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