{"id":8010,"date":"2014-09-17T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:51:52","slug":"star-of-luther-and-ripper-street-recalls-childhood-scrapes-in-north-down-michael-smiley-at-aspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/09\/star-of-luther-and-ripper-street-recalls-childhood-scrapes-in-north-down-michael-smiley-at-aspects\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR OF LUTHER AND RIPPER STREET RECALLS CHILDHOOD SCRAPES IN NORTH DOWN MICHAEL SMILEY AT ASPECTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday 27 September, Michael Smiley the award-winning actor and comedian from Holywood will be making a very special appearance at the Aspects Literature Festival.<\/h1>\n
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Actor and comedian Michael Smiley enjoying some time out with cyclist and author Dervla Murphy. Michael will be reading from Dervla\u2019s book \u201cA Place Apart\u201d for his appearance at this year\u2019s Aspects Irish Literature Festival at Bangor\u2019s Walled Garden on Saturday 27 September. Tickets are on sale now and cost \u00a315\/\u00a312 concession. For more information or to book a ticket, please go to www.aspectsfestival.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having recently pedalled his bicycle around Ireland recalling funny stories from the past and meeting other enthusiasts and characters from his BBC NI series \u2018Something To Ride Home About.\u2019<\/p>\n

For Aspects audiences, Michael will read from \u2018A Place Apart\u2019 by travel writer and cyclist Dervla Murphy.\u00a0 Michael will also be in conversation with BBC NI\u2019s Joe Lindsay recounting stories about some of the characters he met on his journeys during Series One of \u2018Something To Ride Home About.\u2019\u00a0 Joining him onstage will be acclaimed local photographer and cyclist Bill Kirk and the famed Belfast Workshop owner Austin Brown.<\/p>\n

Actor, writer and comedian Michael Smiley is well known for this 2011 role as a hit man Gal in Ben Wheatley\u2019s \u2018 Kill List\u2019 and cycle courier Tyres, in cult TV series \u2018 Spaced.\u2019 Other roles include the devilish O\u2019Neill in \u2018A Field In England,\u2019 computer expert Benny in BBC1\u2019s \u2018Luther,\u2019 George Lusk in the BBC\u2019s \u2018Ripper Street\u2019, \u00a0Baxter in Channel 4\u2019s \u2018Black Mirror\u2019s White Bear\u2019 and most recently he was on our screens as Colonel Morgan Blue in Dr Who.<\/p>\n

A successful stand-up for 20 years, Michael was an award-winning international headliner, and his trilogy of self-penned one man plays brought him acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe. His play,\u2019 The Immigrant,\u2019 premiered at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast in May 2012. His BBC series, \u2018Something to Ride Home About,\u2019 about him cycling around his native Northern Ireland, screened in 2014.<\/p>\n

In 2014, he will be appearing as Reynolds with Jude Law and Ben Mendelsohn in Kevin McDonald\u2019s\u2019 Black Sea\u2019 and as Shannon alongside Stephen Graham in David Leon\u2019s \u2018Orthodox.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tickets for this event, which is taking place at The Festival Marquee, in The Walled Garden, Bangor, are on sale now at www.aspectsfestival.com<\/a> and cost \u00a315\/\u00a312 concession.<\/p>\n

Now in its 23rd<\/sup> year, this year\u2019s Aspects programme has something for everyone. \u00a0Other festival highlights include; Falkland\u2019s War Veteran Simon Weston OBE in conversation with Gerry Kelly, Sheena Wilkinson reading from the collection of short stories \u2018The Great War,\u2019 Paolo Hewitt in conversation with celebrity hairdresser Paul Stafford, broadcaster Martin Bell in conversation with Gerry Kelly and so much more!<\/p>\n

For the full line-up, please download a programme at www.aspectsfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tickets for these events are now on sale at www.aspectsfestival.com<\/a> or from the festival Box Office at North Down Museum (028 9127 1200) and from Bangor Visitor Information Office (028 9127 0069).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday 27 September, Michael Smiley the award-winning actor and comedian from Holywood will be making a very special appearance at the Aspects Literature Festival. Having recently pedalled his bicycle around Ireland recalling funny stories from the past and meeting other enthusiasts and characters from his BBC NI series \u2018Something To Ride Home About.\u2019 For … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}