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DERRY

Ireland

actor, activist, comedian, civil, disability and human rights campaigner, e-poet, musician, new media arts producer, webmaster and writer.

Upstate Renegade Productions

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Acting, activism and campaigning, chess, collaborative art projects, fundraising, collaborative new media/music and literature production, promoting worthwhile art, literature, media/music, new writers, poetry and other creative writing, reading, strumming a guitar, writing comedy, poetry, screenplays, scripts, short stories and songs, debating and online discussion. Speciality: Ridiculing politicians.

The Devil's Double (adapted from the book by Latif Yahia) and starring Dominic Cooper (a powerful actor). Hidden Agenda and The Wind That Shakes The Barley directed by Ken Loach, Down Terrace, No Country For Old Men, Once, Withnail and I, Howl, Dead Man's Shoes, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jacobs Ladder, State Of Grace, This Is England, Final Approach (1991), Big Lebowski, An Everlasting Piece, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Steptoe and Son, Rising Damp, Porridge, Mark Thomas Comedy Product, League of Gentlemen, The Fast Show, Little Britain, Saxondale, Shooting Stars, Newsnight, Channel 4 News, Dispatches...

Sicknote, Bam Bam And The Calling, Jim Walker, every song I've ever heard by Kathryn Williams (a genuine artist). Other music I love includes: Radiohead / Thom Yorke, The Beatles, Nirvana, Ozric Tentacles, Morrissey / The Smiths, Primal Scream, Bob Dylan, The Devlins, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, John Lennon, Billy Bragg, Belle and Sebastian, Hawkwind, The Stranglers, Exploited, Pavement, Luke Kelly and the Dubliners, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Clash, The Cult, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Neil Young, Nick Drake, John McCullagh, Spiritualized, Jesus and Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, The Divine Comedy, Doves, Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen, Queen, The Cure, Joy Division, Sex Pistols, That Petrol Emotion, Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, The Damned, Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas, REM, The Eagles, The Fall, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Big Country, The Frames, The Mission, Madness, The Specials, Dub Pistols, Dreadzone, Groove Armada, Massive Attack, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Salmonella Dub, Kings of Leon, Ennio Morricone (particularly Brothers from The Mission soundtrack), Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and loads of filmscores and soundtracks. Favourite songs/tunes; Darling Be Home Soon by Lovin' Spoonful, Canon (for strings) by Pachelbel, Dietro Casa by Ludovico Einaudi, Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the soundtrack to the 2006/07 Irish movie; Once.

Currently reading: The Devil's Double by Latif Yahia / Published by AMG ( Arcanum Media Group ) This book has also been adapted to film and both it and the movie are brilliant. Favourite books include: Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugarman, Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane, No Time For Love by Hugo Meenan, The Hell Of It All by Charlie Brooker, Belfast Girls by Gerry McCullough, Hero of the Underworld by Jimmy Boyle, wormwood, earth and honey by Catherine Edmunds (my website and I get a mention in this fabulous book of poetry). Johnathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah and A Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach, all of the Discworld novels (that I've read) by Terry Pratchett, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela and The People's Manifesto by Mark Thomas, Issac Asimov (his fictional writing; Foundation and Empire, I Robot etc), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski, Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney, everything by Patrick Kavanagh (that I've either heard or read), The Sand In The Painting by Catherine Edmunds, The Moon's A Balloon by David Niven, every book I've ever read by Joseph O'Connor and Patrick McCabe, Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell.