'STILL GOING STRONG' The legendary Derry born singer Rob Strong and his amazing career

Irish Legend Rob Strong looks back on his amazing career when he started out in the showband scene in the 1960s in Derry , fronting iconic band The Plattermen from Omagh and his own Rob Strong Band right up to 2022. Video includes five TV clips of Rob performing in 1982, 1986, 1988, 2007 and 2018 , with footage also of recent performances in 2020, 2021 & 2022.

Video begins in 1982 with Gerry Ryan introducing Rob and his six piece band on RTE's 'Non Stop Pop Show' with 'We had it all' , continuing to 1986 with Rob and Colm Wilkinson (Les Miserables etc) singing 'I got my mojo working' , 1988 on 'Saturday Night Live' with 'You've lost that lovely feelin' with the RTE Concert Orchestra , 2007 on TG4 singing 'Willow Tree' , 2018 with another Irish legend Don Baker singing 'Fool for ya Baby' on RTE 's Today programme. Rob recalls his earliest days in Derry and Omagh when he replaced Brian Coll as lead singer of the iconic band The Plattermen, as he reels in the years across six decades on the road in Ireland !

In November 2021 Rob Strong and The Plattermen were honoured with a civic reception by Fermanagh & Omagh District Council which took place before The Rob Strong Band's concert in The Strule Arts Centre in Omagh. In 2023 plans are in place for Rob to be be honoured by his hometown of Derry at a concert to be confirmed shortly.


Live Footage of The Rob Strong Band performing over the past three years ,at Arthur's Blues & Jazz Dublin in Jan 2020 " Aint no Sunshine' just before Covid-19, The Workman's Club Dublin with special guest Niamh Strong singing ' Pride and Joy' in 2021 and this year (2022) The Stoneybatter Festival Dublin ('Further on up the Road'), The Seamus Ennis Arts Centre The Naul Co. Dublin with 'After Midnight', The Harvest Blues Festival Monaghan with 'Treat her Right' at The Westenra Hotel. The The Rob Strong Biography 'STILL GOING STRONG ' written by his manager, Paul Holland, is highly recommended by Hotpress, The Sunday World, The Irish Daily Mail, Ireland's Own,The Derry Journal,Omagh Today and Joe Duffy of RTE Radio's 'Liveline' Programme . Brush Shiels of Skid Row fame, calls it a 'phenomenal biography' and 'one of the best books ever written on the Irish Music scene'. Biography available from www.robstrong.ie with free CD 'Soul Affair' by Rob Strong or at gigs in Ireland. Video directed by Paul Holland and produced by Blue Media Management 24 Nov 2022,