Dave Smyth, born in Belfast in 1947 is the record producer responsible for many of the recordings of punk and new wave bands that emerged from the Belfast music scene in the mid to late seventies on the Good Vibrations label. His most well known recording was The Undertones, Teenage Kicks E.P. which included Teenage Kicks, Smarter Than You, True Confessions and Emergency Cases. Other recordings included, Rudi (Big Time / No 1), Protex (Don't Ring Me Up / Just Want Your Attention / Listening In), Victim (Strange Thing By Night / Mixed Up World), The XDreamists (Right Way Home / Dance Away Love), The Outcasts, The Starjets, The Ruefrex and Gerry McAvoy (from the Rory Gallagher Band), (Bassics Album).
Dave Smyth owned a chain of successful clothes shops in Belfast at that time including Fingers, The Hippy Wagon and one named Wizard. The recording studio was also named Wizard Sound Studios, but was located a short distance away in Exchange Place,Lower Donegal Street, just round the corner from the Harp Bar.
Paid a flat fee by Good Vibrations boss Terry Hooley to record any bands on his label, Dave Smyth didn't receive a written credit on many of the record sleeves but his studio, Wizard, was nearly always credited.
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