Roman Thiel

Label owner @ Hinterhof Produktionen Management @ Casino Blackout Management @ The Backyard Band Former bass player @ Public Toys Former label owner @ Drumming Monkey Records Fulfils all the (negative) clichés known about bass players... Nevertheless, this did not prevent him from touring Europe as a member of the Düsseldorf punk rock band PUBLIC TOYS for almost ten years from 1991 onwards and releasing various records. However, after the band's break-up in spring 2000, he never touched his instrument again. Instead, Thiel devoted himself to the backstage organisational skills he had acquired with the Public Toys and began a six-month internship at a music label in mid-1999. The six months eventually turned into 13 years at Roadrunner Records / Warner Music Group, during which Thiel worked in varying positions as promotion manager, field marketing manager and new media director with bands such as Slipknot, Nickelback, Slash, Machine Head, Type O Negative, The 69 Eyes, Moloko, Lenny Kravitz, Kiss, Killswitch Engage, Dresden Dolls & Amanda Palmer, etc. This was followed by engagements as Product Manager at ROTC Musikverlag, as Digital Marketing Director at the promotion & marketing agency Black Mob and as Label Manager at Century Media Records. In between, Roman Thiel founded the label DRUMMING MONKEY RECORDS in 2007 together with Mary Ritchie and Toten Hosen drummer Vom Ritchie, who had often shared the stage and the common rehearsal room on Ronsdorfer Straße in earlier years. The friendship still exists today, Drumming Monkey no longer since October 2020. With his label HINTERHOF PRODUKTIONEN, newly founded in 2020, Roman Thiel will manage the "legacy of the monkey stable" and offer new artists a creative home. As well as continuing to expand his collaboration with bands such as THE BACKYARD BAND and CASINO BLACKOUT, for whom Thiel also acts as management.