DAVE ROBINSON

THE STIFF RECORDS STORY

Liberty Hall, Dublin

Saturday 29th February 2020

Join us for an evening of anecdotes and music as Dave Robinson brings The Stiff Records Story to Liberty Hall Theatre on Saturday 29th February 2020.

Originally a teenage photographer in Dublin, Dave Robinson helped open the first Beat Club in Ireland, Sound City. He took pictures for Rave Magazine at The Cavern with The Beatles, and on The Rolling Stones first tour of Ireland. He befriended Van Morrison, and briefly managed him, and he was with Jimi Hendrix from his first tour of the UK with the Pink Floyd, The Nice and The Move. He shared flats with Jimi and Noel Reading in London and toured with The Experience across America and the world until just before Jimi’s death. He also did major tours in the US with Eric Burden & The Animals, The Young Rascals and Vanilla Fudge. He partied and clubbed with The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jim Morrison and the Doors. He then returned to London and started managing bands…… Brinsley Schwartz, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmonds, Ian Dury and Elvis Costello.

In London, he single-handedly created a network of 35 pubs where bands could play what they wanted and this became the forerunner of punk. Dave built a recording studio above the legendary Hope and Anchor Pub in Islington and, with Jake Riviera, he started Stiff Records. They signed The Damned, Motorhead, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tracey Ullman, The Plasmatics, Jona Lewie, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Kirsty McColl, The Box Tops, The Adverts, Lene Lovich, The Pogues, Madness and many more.

After Stiff, Dave was installed by Chris Blackwell as president of Island Records, where he oversaw the careers of U2, Robert Palmer, Stevie Winwood, & Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He personally compiled and marketed Bob Marley’s 44 million selling LEGEND album. The biggest selling reggae album of all time.

He represented Rick Rubin running Def Jam Records and American Recordings outside North America working with Johnny Cash, the Black Crows, Slayer, Danzig and the Jayhawks. He settled the vicious two-year litigation between Rick Rubin and Roger Ames, Chairman of PolyGram and signed American Recordings to BMG.

Dave then ran The Famous Blue Note Club and Acid Jazz Label in London helping to launch the Drum and Bass dance movement.

Dave has been at the helm or in the mix of the most exciting and important musical developments and he is still active in the music industry as a consultant for various labels and projects - from Van Morrison for EMI to The Dubliners & Paul Carrack.- as well as keeping an eye on some of the most enduring repertoire the music industry has even seen.

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