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Saturday 5 June 2010 at 8pm
An Audience with Mr Nice
Howard Marks
Tickets: €15
The finally rescheduled gig! Originally cancelled due to illness last November we're very pleased to finally have Howard Marks back.
The hottest ticket of the year when he performed here in July, Howard Marks returns with a unique version of An Audience With..in which he will talk about his experience and also offer the chance for the audience to put their questions to him in a special Q&A session.
Howard Marks is the author of Mr Nice, Senore Nice and Dope Stories as well as a travel writer and performer.
From infamous drug runner to celebrated author, Howard Marks presents his legendary one man comedy show. Join him as he recounts how as an Oxford student he graduates to hash smuggling, being recruited by the MI6 to eventual imprisonment in the USA’s most hard core prison, Terre Haute.
His remarkable life story has recently been made into the movie Mr Nice starring Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis and Chloe Sevigny and is due to be released in Autumn 2010.
MORE ABOUT MARKS
During the mid 1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines, and twenty five companies trading throughout the world.
Bars, recording studios, offshore banks: all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing.
Marks began to deal during a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford and was soon moving large quantities of hashish into Europe and America in the equipment of touring rock bands. The academic life began to lose its allure.
At the height of his career, he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as the CIA, MI6, the IRA, and the Mafia.
After many years and a world-wide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentenced to twenty five years in prison at the United States Federal Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, the site of America's only Federal Death Row.
He was released on parole in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence.
NB: Contains strong language and material, recommended over 18s only.
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