Artist
Howard Marks
17 releases · 59 collaborators · 14 labels
- Real name
- Dennis Howard Marks
- Date active
- 1998 – 2008
- Relevance
- Medium, moderate ties with the core dub techno cluster
Bio
Welsh drug smuggler turned author.
Born: 13 August 1945 in Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, Wales, UK.
Died: 10 April 2016 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK (aged 70).
Howard Marks, aka "Mr Nice", is a former international cannabis smuggler turned author, raconteur, and campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis. He achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases in the 1970s and 1980s. He attributed his love affair to the weed with Denys Irving's "own seduction and anarchic impulse" ; the two met at Oxford University in the arly 1960s. Several photos of him appear on the cover of album "[m=124773]" by fellow Welshmen, the Super Furry Animals.
Born: 13 August 1945 in Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, Wales, UK.
Died: 10 April 2016 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK (aged 70).
Howard Marks, aka "Mr Nice", is a former international cannabis smuggler turned author, raconteur, and campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis. He achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases in the 1970s and 1980s. He attributed his love affair to the weed with Denys Irving's "own seduction and anarchic impulse" ; the two met at Oxford University in the arly 1960s. Several photos of him appear on the cover of album "[m=124773]" by fellow Welshmen, the Super Furry Animals.
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Active
- Releases: 3 Relevance: very high Active: 2000 – 2001
- Releases: 1 Relevance: very high Active: 2002
- Releases: 1 Relevance: very high Active: 1999
- Releases: 1 Relevance: high Active: 2003
- Releases: 3 Relevance: medium Active: 2007
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2008
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2007
- Releases: 3 Relevance: low Active: 2000
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1998
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2007
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1998
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2007
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2001
- Releases: 1 Relevance: extremely low Active: 2001