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Due to circumstances beyond our control we regret to announce that we have to cancel this event. If you have already purchased a ticket, please contact us, and we will arrange a refund.
Apologies for the short notice. Many thanks for your continued support.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to a special evening of music with Cat Malojian and Ruby Colley on Saturday 28th August at 8:00PM. Tickets are now on sale.
Ruby Colleys’s debut solo album ‘Murmurations’ (released February 2010) traces a musical journey from the Royal Academy of Music (London) and Dartington College of Arts, through a progressive immersion in the diverse worlds of electronic, avant rock, folk and contemporary, classical music. Since her multiple collaborative and solo performances as Artist in Residence during Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (2008) and as composer for the Tinderbox Theatre Company (2008) she has established an increasingly vital presence on the Northern Irish music scene.
Ruby performs her music alone, with an electric violin and a series of pedals that include a loop-station, delay, and octave pedal. The instrumental soundscapes created are far beyond the realm of traditional playing, with the complex web of sound more akin to an electric orchestra. She draws upon many different styles such as Eastern European folk, Jazz and classical. Her performances are mesmerizing as reviews and audiences testify. In her brief but highly acclaimed trajectory in Northern Ireland, Ruby has supported major acts such as Final Fantasy, Sinead O’Connor, Luka Bloom and the late John Martyn.
As well as being a key instrumentalist in the Belfast band Cava (www.cavamusic.com), Ruby writes and performs her own compositions; Murmurations presents a strong selection of the best of these. Ruby’s music is eclectic but strangely unique and her performances charged with emotional power and nuance.
Cat Malojian are singer-songwriter Stevie Scullion along with multi-instrumentalist siblings Jonny & Rachel Toman. The music they make is melodic & fresh, while hinting at sounds from a bygone era! They are building a solid fanbase in Ireland & beyond.
This is the first time Ruby and the Cats have played together.
Tickets are on sale now, and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of entertainment and musical delight with Kyron Bourke on Thursday 12th August at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8, are now on sale.
Kyron is an all round entertainer in the musical, visual and artistic sense. He has been performing as a solo artist for many years and with other musicians, most recently in band, “Kyron and The Strangles.”
On this occasion Kyron will once again be playing piano and signing. He will be joined by Peter McKinney on drums/percussion, Daren Campbell on Bass, Colman Donney on Guitar, Linley Hamilton on Trumpet and guest vocalist shall be BB Dean (Ex BOP651).
Kyron has also appeared in many film and television roles throughout the UK and Ireland as well as on radio and has been exhibiting his work as an artist since 2000. His most recent joint exhibition with Fluer Jackson in the ArtTank.
You can find more information on Kyron's website.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of John Deery & The Heads' first album, SMOKE & MIRRORS on Friday 13th May at 8:00PM. Tickets are now on sale, priced £5. All proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity.
JOHN DEERY AND THE HEADS, based in Derry, are celebrating the release of their first album, Smoke & Mirrors, which was recorded in Black Box studios with acclaimed Irish producer David Odlum, formerly of the Frames. The album is generating a great response and we are extremely grateful to the band for taking time out of a busy schedule of summer gigs around the UK and Ireland to help raise money for a great cause.
Find out more on the band's MySpace page.
Tickets, priced £5 each are now on sale, and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is very excited to invite you to an evening with Tess Gerritsen, on Wednesday 18th August at 7:00PM, to celebrate the launch of her latest Rizzoli and Isles thriller, THE KILLING PLACE. Please note that we have now confirmed the venue for this event: the Movie House Cinema on the Dublin Road, Belfast (this is the same venue that we used for the recent Lee Child event). Tickets, priced £6 each, are now on sale.
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.
While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008; UK title: Keeping the Dead), and Ice Cold (2010; UK title: The Killing Place.) Her books have been translated into 37 languages, and more than 20 million copies have been sold around the world.
Her books have been top-5 bestsellers in the United States and abroad. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon). Critics around the world have praised her novels as "Pulse-pounding fun" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "Scary and brilliant" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "Polished, riveting prose" (Chicago Tribune). Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the "medical suspense queen".
Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.
Tickets, priced £6 each, can be obtained by emailing David or calling 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of acoustic celtic folk with Sheelin, to celebrate the launch of their new EP HOMEBIRD, on Friday 6th August at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8, are now on sale.
Sheelin was formed in June 2008 by Fionnuala Fagan and Lucy Kerr. The innovative style of this folk duo cleverly combines a strong Irish traditional influence with contemporary popular music culture whilst displaying all the polish of their classical training. Their enchantingly delicate sound is created through evocative original songs, a unique vocal style and their use of instruments such as Irish harp, guitar, keys and violin. Their collaboration is a great example of the eclectic nature of the Irish music culture of today.
Their most recent project, Homebird documents a story given to Fionnuala by her grandmother, Maire De Baroid. In 1948, Maire’s parents and eight brothers and sisters emigrated to America, leaving her behind in Cork, Ireland. Even though she was only 19 years old, she refused to go with them. For this project, Fionnuala was particularly interested in telling someone else’s story. Therefore she aimed to take a different approach to song-writing by taking inspiration from the style of theatre known as, ‘Verbatim Theatre.’ This resulted in the song lyrics being constructed using only Fionnuala’s grandmother’s words which had been collected from her at interview. The five songs on the Homebird EP make up a song cycle. Each song tells another part of this poignant and fascinating story. The EP will be released on 6th August 2010.
"On only one hearing of the songs, my impression was of very skilful editing of source material. The obvious difficulties of reforming prosaic speech to fit within the structure of a ballad were dealt with very effectively...The singing and playing was confident, perfectly in tune, and persuasive."
Martin Dowling, Lecturer in Traditional Irish Music Studies at Q.U.B.
"I think the songs were beautiful...I loved that you stuck to singing them from her point of view...It will stay with me for a long time..."
Hanna Slattne, Dramaturg at Tinderbox theatre Company
"A breath of fresh air..."
Gerry Anderson, BBC Radio Ulster.
Find out more at their MySpace Page.
Tickets are now available, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David or calling 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to the launch party for Stuart Neville's second novel, COLLUSION, on Friday 30th July at 6:30PM.
Stuart Neville has been a musician, a composer, a teacher, a salesman, a film extra, a baker and a hand double for a well known Irish comedian, but is currently a partner in a successful multimedia design business in the wilds of Northern Ireland. COLLUSION is his second novel, the followup to the hugely successful and award winning THE TWELVE.
Former paramilitary killer Gerry Fegan wanders New York City, hiding from a past he escaped at terrible cost. But he made a fatal mistake: he spared the life of Bull O'Kane, a ruthless man who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. Too many witnesses survived a bloody battle at his border farm, and now he wants them silenced, whether man, woman or child. O'Kane calls the Traveller, an assassin without pity or remorse, a killer of the purest kind.
Back in Belfast, Detective Inspector Jack Lennon, father of one the witnesses, is caught up in a web of official secrets and lies as he tries to uncover the whereabouts of his daughter. The closer he gets to the truth about the events on O'Kane's border farm, the more his superiors instruct him to back off.
When Fegan realises he can't shake off the trail of violence that has followed him across the world, he has no choice but to return to Belfast and confront his past. The Traveller awaits Fegan's return, ready for the fight of his life.
You can find more on Stuart's web site.
This is sure to be a popular event, so book your spot early by emailing David or calling 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Calvin Johnson on Saturday 31st July at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8, are now on sale.
Known for his uniquely deep, droning singing voice, Calvin Johnson was a founding member of the bands Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System and The Halo Benders. Calvin Johnson is also the founder and owner of the influential indie label K Records, and has been cited as a major player in the beginning of the modern independent music movement. As a prominent figure in the Olympia,Washington music scene, he was one of the major organizers of the seminal International Pop Underground Convention.
Johnson formed Beat Happening in 1982 and were early leaders in the American indie rock and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship, and songs with subject matters of a childish or coy nature, with members frequently switching instruments and vocals. Tours with artists such as Fugazi confused and alienated audience members while articulating a punk rock position of defiance that was more sensitive than macho. The band has been on hiatus since 1992, but briefly resurfaced to release a new 7" in 2001.
Dub Narcotic Sound System, named after Calvin's famed analog recording studio, was Johnson's next project that explored funkier, more dance-party-oriented material in the tradition of the Stax/Volt house bands. Numerous 7" singles and several full-length albums were released and led to collaborations with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lois Maffeo and The Make-Up.
Johnson's next band Halo Benders was a collaboration with Doug Martsch of Built To Spill. From 1994-1998, they released three albums. Calvin's deep baritone voice and Doug's high melodies are heard simultaneously, occasionally harmonizing, but often operating independently of one another. Despite the Halo Benders' critical and commercial success, Martsch's commitment to touring with Built To Spill prevented the band from touring and recording more.
Concurrent with his activity with Dub Narcotic Sound System, Johnson began performing solo shows under his own name. Calvin's solo material was a marked contrast to the upbeat rock of Halo Benders and the funk-soul of DNSS, as it allowed him to explore mournful blues, folk, & gospel elements. Hist first solo album 'What Was Me' included duets with Beth Ditto of The Gossip..
Johnson has worked, recorded and collaborated with such artists as Kurt Cobain, Modest Mouse, Beck, Heavenly, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jens Lekman, Atlas Sound, The Gossip and Built to Spill among many others and is currently working on his newest project The Hive Dwellers..
Friends of Kurt Cobain such as Ian Dickson of Earth, Mark Arm of Mudhoney and Bruce Pavitt (Sub Pop founder) have all acknowledged Johnson's significant influence on the late musician. Cobain cited Beat Happening's Jamboree as one of his favorite records, and even got the K Records logo (a small "K" in a shield) tattooed on his arm to "try and remind [him] to stay a child."
Tickets are limited to 65, are priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David or calling 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of crime author Peter Robinson's latest Inspector Banks novel, BAD BOY, on Monday 2nd August at 6:30PM.
Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor, then a PhD in English at York University. He has taught at a number of Toronto community colleges and universities and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, 1992-93.
His first novel, Gallows View (1987), introduced Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. It was short-listed for the John Creasey Award in the UK and the Crime Writers of Canada best first novel award. A Dedicated Man followed in 1988 and was short-listed for the CWC’s Arthur Ellis Award. A Necessary End and The Hanging Valley, both Inspector Banks novels, followed in 1989, and the latter was nominated for an Arthur. Both received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly in the US.
Robinson now divides his time between Toronto and Richmond, North Yorkshire. In 2006 he was invited to join The Detection Club.
When Juliet Doyle discovers a gun in her daughter’s bedroom, she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice. But Banks is taking a much-needed holiday, and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm. No one can foresee the operation's disastrous consequences, or that the Doyles will not be the only family affected.
Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy. Her flatmate’s boyfriend is good-looking, ambitious, and surrounded by an intoxicating air of mystery. He's also very dangerous. When Tracy warns him that the police might be on his tail, he persuades her to go on the run with him, and flattered by his attention, she agrees. Before she knows it, a deadly chase across the country is set in motion.
And on his return, completely unsuspecting of Tracy's perilous situation, Banks is plunged into his most terrifying, personal case yet.
Book your spot now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is very excited to invite you to an evening with Jeff Lindsay, on Thursday 22nd July at 6:30PM in the QFT, where we will be celebrating all things Dexter. Tickets are now available, priced £10 each.
Jeff Lindsay is best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan. His first novel, DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER, is the basis for the chilling Showtime original series starring Michael C. Hall.
The event will coincide with the publication of Dexter is Delicious, the fifth novel in Lindsay's celebrated series and will also feature a special screening of Dexter - season four, episode one.
Dexter is Delicious:
Everything's changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn't enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. But even if fatherhood is distracting Dexter from his midnight excursions to rid Miami of a few more lowlifes, there's no let-up at work.
Dexter - Living the Dream - season four, episode one:
Six months after the season finale, Dexter is now living with three kids and a wife in a new home. Along with his new son Harrison, the complexities of being a suburban father of three is making it difficult for Dexter to concentrate on his work.
Dexter's lack of sleep results in a murderer being released because he brought the wrong case file to court. A recently retired Agent Lundy has returned to finally capture the "Trinity Killer", who has been at large for 30 years. After a call from Rita, Dexter quickly kills the released murderer but totals his car after falling asleep at the wheel.
Tickets, priced £10 each, can be obtained from the shop (email David or call 9031 9607) or from the QFT.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music, showcasing 2 of the finest from Cork City, berries blue and Jack O'Rourke, with local support from The New Sheriffs, on Friday 23rd July at 8:00PM. Tickets are now on sale, priced £8 each.
berries blue are an up and coming folk/rock/blues band from West Cork. The two core members, Pat Carey and Marlene Enright combine vocals, piano and guitar, as well as a range of percussion instruments to create a memorable and unique sound. Pat and Marlene’s vocal harmonies, blending ‘beauty with the beast’, have come in for much praise, both in performances at venues throughout Cork and Kerry in their own right, and in supporting well known Irish musicians Luka Bloom, Liam O Maonlai, Damien Dempsey, Declan O’ Rourke, Cathy Davey, and Mick Flannery on a number of occasions throughout Cork.
Find out more on their MySpace Page.
Jack O'Rourke describes himself as a "piano based singer/tunesmith". He will be joined by band-members Aisling (cello), Lorraine (mandolin, harmonies), Gary (sax) and Lee (harmonies).
Find out more on his MySpace Page.
The New Sheriffs consist of Dec (guitar/vocals) and Tom (fiddle/vocals). They play a wide range of folk, blues, country and Irish songs. They have also been known to moonlight as the Blues Sheriffs playing old style country delta blues with slide guitar and a stompin' back beat! The New Sheriffs are well known for their high energy live shows!
Find out more on their MySpace Page.
Tickets, priced £8 each, can be obtained by emailing David or calling 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore invites you to an evening of music with violinist Ruby Colley on Friday 2nd July at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8 each, are on sale now.
Ruby Colleys’s debut solo album ‘Murmurations’ (released February 2010) traces a musical journey from the Royal Academy of Music (London) and Dartington College of Arts, through a progressive immersion in the diverse worlds of electronic, avant rock, folk and contemporary, classical music. Since her multiple collaborative and solo performances as Artist in Residence during Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (2008) and as composer for the Tinderbox Theatre Company (2008) she has established an increasingly vital presence on the Northern Irish music scene.
Ruby performs her music alone, with an electric violin and a series of pedals that include a loop-station, delay, and octave pedal. The instrumental soundscapes created are far beyond the realm of traditional playing, with the complex web of sound more akin to an electric orchestra. She draws upon many different styles such as Eastern European folk, Jazz and classical. Her performances are mesmerizing as reviews and audiences testify. In her brief but highly acclaimed trajectory in Northern Ireland, Ruby has supported major acts such as Final Fantasy, Sinead O’Connor, Luka Bloom and the late John Martyn.
As well as being a key instrumentalist in the Belfast band Cava (www.cavamusic.com), Ruby writes and performs her own compositions; Murmurations presents a strong selection of the best of these. Ruby’s music is eclectic but strangely unique and her performances charged with emotional power and nuance.
Tickets are now on sale, priced £8 each. The last time Ruby played at No Alibis we had more than 20 avid listeners outside the shop, so be sure not to miss out! To book your spot, email David or call 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite children and adults of all ages to meet C.B. Lindsay, for the launch of her book, WHO ATE ALL THE PIES?, on Saturday 3rd July at 2:00PM.
This illustrated chapter book is an adventure story about a greedy little boy called Cuthbert, whose granny feeds him an excessive amount of custard pies. When she suddenly stops making him his favorite dish and starts behaving rather oddly, Cuthbert is driven (by his stomach) to find out where all the custard pies are disappearing to.
Mad scientists, bad robots, and a timid new friend for Cuthbert make this a very lively read for younger readers (6-8 year olds).
To book your spot, email David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Cat Malojian on Saturday 3rd July at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £10 each, are now on sale.
Cat Malojian are singer-songwriter Stevie Scullion along with multi-instrumentalist siblings Jonny & Rachel Toman. The music they make is melodic & fresh, while hinting at sounds from a bygone era! They are building a solid fanbase in Ireland & beyond.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £10 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore invites you to an evening of music and poetry with The New Sheriffs and Howard Wright on Friday 25th June at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8 each, are on sale now.
The New Sheriffs consist of Dec (guitar/vocals) and Tom (fiddle/vocals). They play a wide range of folk, blues, country and Irish songs. They have also been known to moonlight as the Blues Sheriffs playing old style country delta blues with slide guitar and a stompin' back beat!
The New Sheriffs are well known for their high energy live shows!
King of Country is Howard Wright’s first, much-anticipated, full-length poetry collection. Wright’s keen, painters eye never fails to see the irony in the mundane, rendering found art out of theeveryday in this wry and wily collection.
Vivid, colourful and original, King of Country skilfully strikes the balance between personal experience, local character and universal truths.
Tickets are now on sale, priced £8 each. To book your spot, email David or call 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore invites you to an evening of music with Gerry Creen on Friday 18th June at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8 each, are on sale now.
Gerry Creen’s ongoing solo work recently includes gigs with Nanci Griffith, Benita Hill, Juliet Turner, Iain Matthews, Mick Hanley, Declan O'Rourke, Brian Kennedy, Dougie Maclean, John Gorka, David Olney, Sergio Webb, Madison Violet ,Tia Sillers, Mark Selbey, Paul Casey, Colum Sands, Janet Holmes, Colin Henry, John Spillane, Eilidh Patterson, Joe Echo, Anthony Toner, The Carolina Chocolate Drops........Gerry has played on the same bill as The Dubliners, Planxty, Louden Wainwright, John Martyn, Danny Thompson, Ralph McTell, Paul Brady, Tom Paxton, Donovan, Maura O'Connell, Christie Moore, Freddie White, Alan Taylor, Don Everley, Pierre Bensusan, Stefan Grossman, Mary Coughlan, Henry Mc Cullough,The Strawbs, Lindisfarne, Ossian, The Battlefield Band, Stocktons Wing, Scullion, and many more.
You can find more about Gerry on his MySpace page.
Tickets are now on sale, priced £8 each. To book your spot, email David or call 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Anthony Toner on Saturday 19th June at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8, are now on sale.
Anthony Toner has been described as ‘John Prine meets James Taylor – in a second hand book shop’. His single ‘Sailortown’ grabbed the attention of radio listeners in Northern Ireland last year. It was an utterly contemporary, clear-eyed depiction of a doomed teenage romance - set against the backdrop of Belfast’s fabled Sailortown neighbourhood, now undergoing all kinds of transformations.
Anthony was a journalist for 17 years, and held down a part time job as a guitarist and singer in a dance band, travelling and gigging all over the country.
His first album Eventually gained a great response from critics and DJs, but the success of ‘Sailortown’ propelled his second collection, A Sky for Every Day into the spotlight. The album picked up major reviews and sales, thanks to ‘Sailortown’ and the equally radio-friendly single ‘Marion, That’s All Right’.
His new album The Duke of Oklahoma & Other Stories is a step forward in every sense – the lyrics and hooks are the best he’s ever written. It takes as its subject material the inevitable failings of the heart, but also urban decay, dormitory towns, flirting by e-mail, drinking and jumping off rooftops.
Last year, in addition to building a growing fanbase in Northern Ireland, he shared the stage with Nanci Griffith and Guy Clark in Nashville, and showcased in a special gig at Austin’s South by South West. He’s also developing a strong following in Canada.
His live performances always feature entertaining stories from the road, references to some of the influences, literary and otherwise, behind his songs, peerless guitar playing and thought-provoking songs that stay with you on the way home.
You can find more information on Anthony's website or his MySpace page.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to the launch of Irish crime fiction anthology, REQUIEMS FOR THE DEPARTED, edited by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone, on Thursday 10th June at 6:30PM.
Irish Crime. Irish Myths.
Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.
Watch the children of Conchobar return to their mischievous ways, meet ancient Celtic royalty, and follow druids and banshees as they are set loose in the new Irish underbelly, murder and mayhem on their minds.
Featuring top shelf tales by Ken Bruen, Maxim Jakubowski, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Sam Millar, John Grant, Garry Kilworth, T.A. Moore and many more.
Along with co-editor Gerard Brennan (of Crime Scene NI fame), we're expecting appearances from the following contributors: Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Arlene Hunt, T.A. Moore and Garbhan Downey, so this is sure to be an evening to remember.
Book your spot now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to the launch of Miriam Gamble's debut poetry collection, THE SQUIRRELS ARE DEAD, on Thursday 3rd June at 7:00PM.
Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels in 1980 and grew up in Belfast. She studied at Oxford and at Queen’s University Belfast, where she completed a PhD in contemporary British and Irish poetry. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007, and her pamphlet, This Man's Town, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2007. A selection of her poems appears in the Bloodaxe anthology Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st century (2009). Her first book-length collection, The Squirrels Are Dead, is published by Bloodaxe in 2010.
Miriam Gamble lives and works in Belfast. She writes poems, reviews and critical essays and is a part-time tutor in creative writing at Queen’s University.
Miriam Gamble’s poetry is cleverly self-conscious about the doubleness of language: as resistant, resisting medium, and as the lightly worn currency of the everyday. Remarkable for its imaginings of both the animal world and the human, her first full-length collection The Squirrels Are Dead encompasses an urgent sense of social engagement as well as a profound sense of mystery, in which language is journeyed through as an almost-familiar landscape.
Gamble is a mistress-manipulator of tradition – with sonnet, villanelle and sestina some of the forms on display – who forces new rhythms into tried and tested forms, yet is ever vigilant to the fact that poets do not replace, they update, and that tradition comes to fresh life in the retelling. The Squirrels Are Dead is a striking and assured debut from a distinctive new talent in Irish poetry.
Book your spot now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of entertainment and musical delight with Kyron Bourke on Friday 4th June at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8, are now on sale.
Kyron is an all round entertainer in the musical, visual and artistic sense. He has been performing as a solo artist for many years and with other musicians, most recently in band, “Kyron and The Strangles.”
On this occasion Kyron will once again be playing piano and signing. He will be joined by Peter McKinney on drums/percussion, Daren Campbell on Bass, Colman Donney on Guitar, Linley Hamilton on Trumpet and guest vocalist shall be BB Dean (Ex BOP651).
Kyron has also appeared in many film and television roles throughout the UK and Ireland as well as on radio and has been exhibiting his work as an artist since 2000. His most recent joint exhibition with Fluer Jackson in the ArtTank.
You can find more information on Kyron's website.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to be hosting an afternoon of reading and discussion with Daniel Morden, as part of the Belfast Children's Festival, on Saturday 29th May at 4:00PM.
Daniel Morden is one of the UK's greatest storytellers and respected author. He will be talking about and reading from his latest book FEARLESS. A gruesome tale of a boy who is confronted by ghouls, corpses and demons. It will make you shudder with fear!
FEARLESS has been written with reluctant readers in mind, the text is in a specially designed font, the paper is off-white and the sentence and paragraph construction has been carefully designed for the clearest and most readable layout.
Free tickets are now available, and can be obtained direct from the festival. Please note that booking IS required for this event. To book your spot, go to the Festival website.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to be hosting an afternoon of reading and discussion with Northern Irish author, Garrett Carr, as part of the Belfast Children's Festival, on Saturday 22nd May at 4:00PM.
A giant, monstrous sea creature is coming to destroy the town of Ballydog. Can it be saved from its fate? Is it worth saving? You'll have to find out...
One of Northern Ireland's newest talents, author Garrett Carr will combine a reading from his first children's book The Badness of Ballydog with an exploration of real underwater monsters that inspired him.
Free tickets are now available, and can be obtained direct from the festival. Please note that booking IS required for this event. To book your spot, go to the Festival website.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to the launch of two new books, by two of Ireland's hottest crime fiction authors, Brian McGilloway and Declan Hughes, on Wednesday 5th May at 7:00PM.
When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he finds inside the charred remains of a man who is quickly identified as a local drug dealer, Martin Kielty. It soon becomes clear that Kielty's death was no accident, and suspicion falls on a local vigilante group. Former paramilitaries, the men call themselves The Rising. Meanwhile, a former colleague's teenage son has gone missing during a seaside camping trip. Devlin is relieved when the boy's mother, Caroline Williams, receives a text message from her son's phone, and so when a body is reported, washed up on a nearby beach, the inspector is baffled. When another drug dealer is killed, Devlin realises that the spate of deaths is more complex than mere vigilantism. But just as it seems he is close to understanding the case, a personal crisis will strike at the heart of Ben's own family, and he will be forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him. With his fourth novel, McGilloway announces himself as one of the most exciting crime novelists around: gripping, heartbreaking and always surprising, "The Rising" is a tour de force - McGilloway's most personal novel so far.
In LA there’s a killer on the loose. He kills young and rootless girls and he always kills in threes. Back in Dublin, Ed Loy, happy in a new relationship, is reunited with Jack Donovan, a film director friend from LA with a turbulent personal history. When the third young female extra fails to show for work on Jack’s movie, Loy begins to suspect Jack. And when the previous victims of the ‘Three-in-One Killer’ are discovered in LA at locations Jack used for his movies, Loy’s suspicion hardens.
Loy flies to LA to liaise with the LAPD on their investigation. He must find something in his and Jack’s shared past that can point to the killer, and hope against hope that whatever he finds will point away from his old friend. And then, when he finally unearths the truth, it looks like it may be too late. Back in Dublin, the ‘Three-in-One Killer’ has broken his pattern, broken cover and struck at Ed Loy where he is most vulnerable. Time is not on Loy’s side as he mounts a desperate fight to outwit a ruthless psychopath and save the last of the lost girls.
Book your spot now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music with John Deery & The Heads on Friday 7th May at 8:00PM. Tickets are now on sale, priced £7.50.
John Deery is an Irish Singer songwriter who has been playing and working in Scotland for the last few years. John has two self released albums; 'Life to This' (2004) and 'Pen and Ink' (2008). Following some top gigs in Derry and Belfast, N.Ireland, including supporting BellX1, he moved to Australia, then to Scotland, where he ran The Quiet Riot music night successfully for two years in Glasgow. After a spell travelling and writing for the new album, John Has now returned home along with his new band John Deery & The Heads. The band are recording a new album with acclaimed Irish Producer David Odlum in May and touring it in Ireland and the UK in the Summer of 2010.
Demos of new tracks, as well as live radio recordings and songs from John's previous albums are available on John's MySpace page.
Tickets, priced £7.50 each are now on sale, and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Cat Malojian on Monday 10th May at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £8 each, are now on sale.
Cat Malojian are singer-songwriter Stevie Scullion along with multi-instrumentalist siblings Jonny & Rachel Toman. The music they make is melodic & fresh, while hinting at sounds from a bygone era! They are building a solid fanbase in Ireland & beyond.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to a free children's event with Rory O'Connor on Saturday 24th April from 2 o'clock until 3 o'clock. Rory is the brain behind Rory's Story Cubes and this is sure to be a creative and fun-filled event for children of all ages.
More information can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Paul Curreri on Wednesday 28th April at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £10 each, are now on sale.
Paul Curreri is an American musician and songwriter born in Seattle. He married songwriter/guitarist Devon Sproule in May 2005 and currently resides with her in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Though he grew up playing music, he ended up enrolling at Rhode Island School of Design to pursue painting and film. While his experiences at art school helped develop his ability to observe and record the visual world, his true passion again rose to the surface. By the time Paul graduated from RISD, he'd composed over 200 songs on guitar and piano. Turning down a job at MTV, he set to work carving out a life as a musician.
Paul Curreri is renowned for his inspired songs, bright voice, and talented finger-style playing. Described by WTJU's Aer Stephen as "A ruffled gypsy gutter cowboy, a true life adventurer, a bright new voice", Paul Curreri has also been compared to Martin Sexton for his reputation for inspired live performances (and more elusive success in the studio). His fifth album The Velvet Rut features a mass of sound surrounding his eloquent guitarwork. Curreri reportedly played all the accompanying instruments himself.
2010 sees a return to touring for Paul following a throat injury in July 2008.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £10 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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On Monday 3rd May at 7:30 PM, the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and No Alibis Bookstore will be hosting a screening and talk with author John Connolly in the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter. Tickets, priced £5 each, are now available from CQAF and from No Alibis.
In 1998 John Connolly won the largest advance ever paid to an Irish writer (£1.3m) yet he doesn’t write about Ireland or the Irish and his grisly crime novels are set in Maine, USA.
It is timely to screen a documentary about Connolly since, with 12 novels under his belt, he is a writer in full command of his genre and is already branching out beyond the crime novel into fantasy fiction with his recent works The Book of Lost Things and The Gates.
Shot in Dublin, Maine, Baltimore and Washington, John Connolly: Of Blood and Lost Things traces Connolly’s literary trajectory from Irish Times freelancer to publishing superstardom on the sale of his first novel, Every Dead Thing, which launched his flawed protagonist, P.I., Charlie (Bird) Parker.
Featuring dramatised readings from his work John Connolly: Of Blood and Lost Things examines the sense of place and atmosphere in Connolly’s work but also includes a biographical narrative of his Dublin childhood and journey toward becoming a writer. The documentary features interviews with iconic American crime writers George Pelecanos and David Simon, creator of TV’s The Wire.
After the screening, John Connolly will talk and take questions about his work.
More information is available on the CQAF website or by mailing David.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of poetry on Saturday 1st May from 5:00PM until 7:00PM with Grainne Tobin.
Grainne will be celebrating the launch of her latest collection, THE NERVOUS FLYER'S COMPANION, and will be reading a selection of her poetry. Refreshments will be provided.
More information can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite you to an evening of folk music to celebrate the launch of Sean Donnelly's new album, THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE, on Friday 9th April at 8:30PM. Tickets, priced £10 each, are now on sale.
Sean Donnelly knows a good song when he hears one. He knows how to pick them, choose them, interpret them, write them and integrate them into his vast repertoire. Anyone familiar with his recorded work in Ireland and abroad will know this fact and verify it. However anyone approaching a Sean Donnelly recording for the first time, the welcome mat is out and a trusted ally is waiting in the wings for your discovery.
A native of Tyrone Sean Donnelly emigrated first to Belfast and then to Newcastle in Co. Down where he has been resident for the past two decades or more. He has the Co. Down passport to prove it!.
"The Winding Banks of Erne" this latest recording from Sean Donnelly is a typical combination of assured interpretation and carefully chosen material. Again the traditional wells of Ulster song are consulted and acknowledged with "I Wish my Love Was a Red Red Rose" learned from no less than Mrs. Sarah Makem mother of the legendary Tommy Makem (RIP) it is appropriate to mention that the late David Hammond also had a version of this song. Sean's revisiting of it comes two decades after he first recorded it on his debut album “One Day We Saw the Sun” issued in 1987. The Winding Banks of Erne itself is a William Allinghams poem set to music by Sean "The Star of Logy Bay" a Newfoundland song which sounds intrinsically Irish has been recorded by Sliabh Notes, Corrib Folk and is remembered particularly from Dennis Ryan of Ryan's Fancy. "Come o'er the Mountain" comes from the singing of Len Graham "Johnny Lovely Johnny" is another from the Ulster song cycle awaiting reinvention with its Tyrone connections keeping the home fires burning as it were.
Interestingly enough Sean's sole original composition "I'm A stranger Here" recalls his return to his home village "where I was raised as a child only to discover that I knew no one there now and no one knew me!". "The Mountains of Mourne" is recorded in response to requests from The Gerry Anderson Show on BBC Radio Ulster. Sean also adds some marvellously understated readings of songs by his Northern neighbours Co. Antrim's Martin Donnelly (no relation!) "Now the Swallows are Away" Eamon Friel's "Hard Town" and Gerry O'Beirne's truck driving anthem "Western Highway".
The most surprising inclusion of all is "The Ballad of Amelia Erhard" a crossover from the folk/country songbook. This is a story song in the ballad tradition which tells the true story of the lost aviation pioneer Amelia Erhard and adds a fittingly diverse conclusion to Sean Donnelly's latest recorded odyssey. Sean handles the songs with his customary care and ease. The backings are suitably restrained and the whole collection breathes with both sincerity and poise.
If you are familiar with Sean Donnelly's work to date, this note is a reminder of the gems in store, if you are encountering Sean Donnelly for the first time as I did in 1987, you will discover one of Ireland's best kept secrets. "The Winding Banks of Erne" adds another excellent page to Sean Donnelly's recorded catalogue.
(John O'Regan)
Tickets are on sale now, priced £10 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite you to an evening of music with John Smith on Tuesday 13th April at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £10 each, are now on sale.
John Smith is a guitar man from Devon, quietly becoming recognized as one of the most exciting voices on the British Folk scene. He has spent several years solidly on the road, touring with John Martyn and accompanying Davy Graham on his final tour. He has also supported John Renbourn, David Gray, Martin Carthy, Jools Holland, Tunng and Tinariwen and has shared the stage with Cara Dillon, James Yorkston, Martin Simpson and Ben Ottewell.
At the end of 2008, armed with a laptop and a couple of microphones, John drove around the USA's deep south recording in forests, under bridges, on the bayou and in motel toilets. The result is his new record MAP OR DIRECTION.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £10 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis are pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Sarah McQuaid on Friday 16th April at 8:00PM. Sarah will be joined by special guest Gerry Creen. Tickets, priced £8 each, are now on sale.
Born in Madrid, Spain, raised in Chicago and holding dual Irish and American citizenship, singer/guitarist and songwriter Sarah McQuaid lived in Ireland from 1994 to 2007. She has since moved with her husband and two children to the home formerly occupied by her parents near Penzance, Cornwall.
I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning, the long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut album When Two Lovers Meet, marked a distinct change of focus for the musician whose rich voice has been likened to “matured cognac”. Whereas her first album was a feast of Irish music, this is an enchanting celebration of old-time Appalachian folk, with Sarah’s arrangements punctuated by her own fine compositions and a cover of Bobbie Gentry’s classic ‘Ode to Billie Joe’.
Crow Coyote Buffalo, an album of songs co-written by Sarah with fellow Penzance resident Zoë (author and performer of 1991 hit single ‘Sunshine On A Rainy Day’) under the band name Mama, has also been garnering rave reviews since its January 2009 release; one critic described the pair as “Two pagan goddesses channeling the ghost of Jim Morrison”.
Gerry Creen’s ongoing solo work recently includes gigs with Nanci Griffith, Benita Hill, Juliet Turner, Iain Matthews, Mick Hanley, Declan O'Rourke, Brian Kennedy, Dougie Maclean, John Gorka, David Olney, Sergio Webb, Madison Violet ,Tia Sillers, Mark Selbey, Paul Casey, Colum Sands, Janet Holmes, Colin Henry, John Spillane, Eilidh Patterson, Joe Echo, Anthony Toner, The Carolina Chocolate Drops........Gerry has played on the same bill as The Dubliners, Planxty, Louden Wainwright, John Martyn, Danny Thompson, Ralph McTell, Paul Brady, Tom Paxton, Donovan, Maura O'Connell, Christie Moore, Freddie White, Alan Taylor, Don Everley, Pierre Bensusan, Stefan Grossman, Mary Coughlan, Henry Mc Cullough,The Strawbs, Lindisfarne, Ossian, The Battlefield Band, Stocktons Wing, Scullion, and many more.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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Lee Child, one of the Worlds greatest Thriller Writers, will be heading to Belfast in March 2010.
No Alibis Bookstore, in association with TRANSWORLD Publishers, is proud to announce that they will be hosting an event to promote the new JACK REACHER novel, 61 HOURS. The event will take place in the Movie House Cinema on the Dublin Road, on Wednesday 24th March at 7:00PM. Tickets, priced £12, are now on sale, only from No Alibis Bookstore.
Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.
Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment.
Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born.
Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £12 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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We're very excited to announce that Faber author and frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, Willy Vlautin, will be in the store for an acoustic concert and book launch, on Friday 12th March at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £15, are now on sale.
Willy and RF guitar player Dan Eccles will play music and Willy will read from Lean on Pete, his latest novel published by Faber & Faber. Books will also be available to purchase on the evening. This event is already close to selling out, so book your tickets early!
We are pleased to announce that a percentage of all monies made at this event will go towards the NINOS DE LA PAZ Literacy Programme in the La Paz Children’s Home, Bolivia.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £15 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Sean Rea and Los Americanos on Friday 19th February at 8:00PM. Tickets are now on sale priced £8.
Sean Rea, singer/songwriter spent his early years like most kids in LA soaking up that golden California sun and playing rock music with his High School friends. They were like thousands of garage bands that popped up and died out like weeds in the hot west coast weather. Spending his late teens and early twenties working and playing the legendary clubs and bars of the City of Angels.
His songwriting and unique playing style were developed as he watched the great musicians and songwriters passing through clubs like the Troubadour “I spent my share of time standing in line for a chance to play the Hoot Night gigs. As a left hander, I had to turn my friends' guitars over, and they showed me how to play in my upside down style. I did some sneaking around then while I learned to play, my dad thought it was a waste of time. But it was all cool in the end."
Sean quickly progressed into the music industry in LA. Between studying electronic music and audio engineering at Cal State Dominguez Hills. He continued developing his songwriting and production skills, working with the likes of pianist Richard Bunger, producer arranger Jim Ed Norman and recording engineer Ron Capone.
The drive to write and perform has taken Sean across the world.From Laguna Beach Ca. to the Seychelles, and through every gigable cranny between there and his home in Donegal . Sean hit the road. Touring the pubs, clubs and colleges of Scotland and Ireland, extensively over the past few years. Sean has absorbed the influence of his Gaelic surroundings without surrendering to them. As his two latest cd releases show so aptly.
You can find more about Sean on his MySpace Page.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £8 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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Please note that due to the work going on as a result of the flooding earlier in the month, this event has moved to a new venue: The French Village Cafe, at the corner of Botanic Avenue and University Street, a two-minute stroll from the front door of No Alibis.
No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of Blues with Paul Lamb and Johnny Dickinson on Thursday 28th January at 8:00PM. Tickets, priced £10, are now on sale.
Hailed by aficionados and music press around the world as Europe’s foremost blues harmonica exponent, Paul Lamb has forged himself a place in the history books as one of the greatest players of our time. He has won countless awards, sold record-breaking quantities of albums, and performed the world over with his long-standing musical compatriots, The Kingsnakes. Recently inducted into the British Blues Awards Hall Of Fame (alongside the likes of Peter Green, John Mayall & Alexis Korner), Lamb still continues to bring his infectious brand of soulful blues to a plethora of fans around the globe…
For more information on Paul, visit his website.
Johnny is an outstanding blues and folk slide guitarist and founder member of blues legends Paul Lamb and The Kingsnakes. Now performing as a solo artist, he is proving himself to be a worthy songwriter and magical live performer.
For more information on Johnny, visit his website.
This will be the second time Paul and Johnny have played No Alibis….last time we had a full house, book early! Tickets are on sale now, priced £10 each and can be obtained by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening with Stephen Hall, on Friday 29th January at 7:00PM. Tickets, priced £5, are now on sale.
Belfast born Stephen Hall is an Illustrator, Storyteller, Poet and Musician. He visits schools and works with adults using a mixture of his skills to entertain and encourage pupils or individuals to be creative.
On this night Stephen plans to use a story called "The Island" to help illustrate his various storytelling and illustrative styles. He will also entertain with a number of mildly humourous poems prior to the story. A Picture Show will be provided!
The layers of meaning that are imbued in every image are part of Hall’s aim to tell a story through his illustrations. His images - colourful, vibrant and expressive - offer an alternative version of storytelling, rather than a rigid pictorial representation of the text. Stephen's pictures are available on his website. Some of his poems and songs are available at his My Space page.
Tickets are on sale now, priced £5 each. To book a spot for this event, email David, or call the shop on 9031 9607.
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We now have copies of this limited edition poster for sale. There are 100 copies, each signed and numbered by Paul Charles. Each poster costs £25.00 (postage will be charged separately if you are unable to pick up your poster in the shop).
Email David for more information, or to place an order.
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