Dave Desroches

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Dave "Rave" Desroches is a Canadian rock musician from Hamilton, Ontario.

He grew up in Hamilton with the members of the punk rock band Teenage Head, appearing with them on their "Frantic City" LP, and opening for them in his own band, "The Shakers". Eventually he replaced original 'Head' vocalist Frankie Venom in 1984 after Frankie had left to form The Blue Angels. Desroches left Teenage Head in 1989.

He then formed a group called The Dave Rave Conspiracy, releasing the album Valentino's Pirates later that year. The album was credited to the Dave Rave Group, however, as their label was uncomfortable with the word "conspiracy". Notably, the band also included Billy Ficca, formerly of the influential New York City band Television, and Lauren Agnelli, of the 1980s anti-folk band Washington Squares.

Valentino's Pirates has become a cult classic, and was the first North American rock album released by a post-Soviet state after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In 1994, the Conspiracy's second album, Three Octave Fantastic Hexagram, was released. However, the band broke up shortly afterward.

Desroches and Agnelli went on to form Agnelli & Rave.

In 2001, Valentino's Pirates was remastered and rereleased in Canada, and an international rerelease followed the next year. In 2003, the Conspiracy released Everyday Magic, its first album of new material in a decade.