Dave Smyth

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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. but other artists included, The Starjets, The X-Dreamists, The Roofracks and Gerry McAvoy (from the Rory Gallagher Band).

Dave Smyth owned a chain of successful clothes shops in Belfast at that time including Fingers, The Hippy Wagon and one named Wizard. Because the recording studio that Dave Smyth set up was located above his Wizard clothes shop in Anne Street, Belfast, the recording studio was also named Wizard.

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.

Dave Smyth now lives in Bedfordshire, England and still produces music for his Wizard label.