An Evening with Howard Marks - Saturday 19th May 2012
Mr. Nice brings his one-man comedy/storytelling show back to The Tivoli by popular demand!
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BUY TICKETSDoors: 7.30pm | Tickets £10
If you missed Howard here in July 2011, you missed a treat. His incredible tales of a past you couldn't even begin to imagine, were totally spell-binding and very funny to boot. Fear not, he returns to us to share even more fascinating and jaw-dropping stories of a master devious mind!
During the mid 1980s, Howard Marks (aka Mr. Nice) 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. During 1997, he performed his first live shows, which discussed his life as a marijuana smuggler and his views on drug use and legalisation. The shows received excellent reviews throughout the national press, and his now legendary one-man comedy show, An Audience with Mr Nice, continues to sell-out at venues throughout Britain and Europe.
He has since become an author of many books, a columnist for a leading lad's mag and his image has been used on the cover of the debut Super Furry Animals album. Last year Rhys Ifans starred in a movie based on his audacious drug-trafficking career affirming his status as a true cult character of our time, so well worth making the effort to come and hear him spinning his many yarns!
“The most sophisticated drugs baron of all time”
The Daily Mirror
See more info at www.howardmarks.name
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