June 10th, 2008
2dFestival
Derry was deadly. Met so many great people and made new friends. Dec was in top sketching form and he put me and Mooney to shame with the quality and quantities knocked out. Nick Roche was hitting them out of the park too. The kids were all so polite! A fantastic event that widdles all over the conventions in the UK. Nuff respect to David Campbell for organising everything.
Big shout out to Al Nolan for driving my doubly hungover arse all the way from Derry to my front door. What a prince. I can’t see the Irish Arts Council ever being as progressive, pack of clowns waste zillions on crap that relatively few people can or would want to engage with.
Young Dec with a sketch of The Joker I knocked out for him
I was never in Derry before and it was an eye opener. The highlight was when I was outside yapping to a woman (who turned out to David’s aunt) about the Troubles, she was pointing out parts of the city and telling me the history, then she asks me if I’d like to see something and she takes out a small plastic bag and unfolds an old handkerchief. It was the very handkerchief waved by Father Daly on Bloody Sunday as he escorted the lad who was shot to the ambulance. Poignant and touching stuff.
Brilliant weekend. I’ll post some of our sketches this week.
