HOWARD ‘MR NICE’ MARKS SET TO PERFORM AT WHITE RABBIT, PLYMOUTH
Howard Marks will be at The White Rabbit in Plymouth on 22 September as part of a UK tour with ex Happy Mondays guitarist Kav. The former teacher/infamous drug smuggler has joined forces with Kav and Norwegian hipsters Datarock on Kav’s forthcoming release, ‘The Mr Nice EP’ which will be out on This Feeling Records on 28 Sept.
Here’s a bit more about Marks, from his website howardmarks.co.uk
“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.”
Don’t miss your chance to catch a glimpse of the legendary man himself!
