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He has, to his credit, many stage performances in the Glasgow City Halls, town and village halls, colleges, pubs, folk clubs, show boat and also Radio Clyde and BBC Club cruises on the river Clyde. Lomond Folk appeared on BBC Radio Scotlland 'Tuesday's Folk and Pop' ' with Alastair Clark and TV appearances including, Scottish Television's long running 'ThingummyJig', Dateline Today with Bill Tennent and South of the border on Granada. With several pieces of vinyl, cassettes and compact discs produced, he has been involved in most mainstream forms of music throughout his life.

Robin was one half of the successful folk duo, 'Lomond Folk'. He and Donald Brown sang for many years sharing stages with many other Scottish groups and folk artists of that period. They had three albums to their credit and were working on a fourth. 'Parcel o'Rogues' on the Caledonian Music label; 'Flower of Scotland' on Decca (Beltona Sword) label then finally 'Blended Scotch' on the Lismor label. They established their own club at the Black Bull Hotel, Milngavie outside Glasgow (1969). They hosted many artists during those years - The Laggan, The Islanders, The Clydesiders, The McCalmans, Robin Hall & Jimmy McGregor, The Crofters, Tannahill Weavers, Dapplegrim, The Waverleys, Vindscreen Vipers, Bitter Withy, Schiehallion, Whistlebinkie, Estrylin, Tinker's Loan, New Celeste, Mystyk, The Gaberlunzie and solo artists - Alistair McDonald, Iain McIntosh, Dominic Behan, Fraser Lamont, Rab Noakes, Fraser Bruce, Mike Whellans, Ally Bain,Tam Whyte, Archie Fisher, Isla St.Clair, Barbara Dickson, Billy Connolly, George Chisholm, Bill Tennent, Colin Macdonald John Cairney with his portrayals of Burns and McGonagall, Matt McGinn, Danny Kyle, Hamish Imlach and John Martyn. Together, they ran the Black Bull Folk Club in Milngavie for five years handing it on to Dapplegrim in 1974, due to the constraints of being a resident group. Lomond Folk ran several other folk clubs such as Hunter's Quay and sang all over Scotland and south of the border until the untimely death of Donald in 1977. Painfully, Robin closed the curtains on Lomond Folk.

Robin then established a solo career on the Scottish tourist circuit in many of Scotland's renowned tourist centres and hotels. Gleneagles, Sheraton Edinburgh, North British Edinburgh, Loch Lomond Hotel, and in fact about every hotel on the road from Balloch to Fort William, and Oban to the Western Isles was the annual circuit. Robin also continued to compere the Clyde and Loch Lomond Showboat cruises working with many top folk and jazz artists such as Kenny Ball, and Scottish accordionists Gary Blair and Iain Duff during these years. However, his professional folk style was moth balled partly out of the pain of nostalgia for the old days of Lomond Folk and the Scottish folk scene.

Following a solo recording with Bluebell Records Ltd. in Glasgow, and a few compilation tracks on various Scottish labels, 1981 - 2011 saw Robin establish and manage Occasion Recordings & Publications Ltd. He produced several recordings for himself and for other Glasgow artists on the OCC Label. Having sustained regular tourist work for 8 years he then relocated to England.

In the late 80s a musical partnership evolved with fellow musician, Andy Hart, while both were playing in a London based eight piece band. In constant entrepreneurial pursuit of using their skills, experience and a growing collection of production, sound and lighting rigs, the pair formed the fully professional events outfit Solid Silver Productions, while maintaining their 'gigging' with their four piece covers band Solid Silver. The band is ideal for weddings and parties and you can visit it by clicking below.

Now embracing his 60+ years Robin decided it was time to get back to his roots and enjoy folk and world music again. Robin has returned to what he enjoys most - singing honest songs accompanied by guitar and with other like minded folk musicians! Despite his return to the 'Lomond Folk' traditional style of folk as a solo performer, he is the vocalist in 'Celtic Krystal', a folk n' fiddle trio, with Robin on guitar/vocals and Adrian Boddy and Krystal Woodbridge on fiddles. Celtic Krystal are a highly dynamic, energetic and entertaining folk band. From song to dance they are ideal for folk nights, concerts, festivals and party's, and also weddings which have a Celtic connection.

Tangleweave gives an opportunity to explore new things - if anything is ever new - but it certainly has a new vibe with a greater emphasis on Celtic/Afro/Antipodean music. Here Robin works with multi instrumentalist Chris Puleston and brings together a variety of other musicians who want to try something a bit more experimental. It's really for chilling out and keeping the circle unbroken!