Thur 12th, Doors open 9pm, show 9.15pm
Old Fire Station Cafe | Free

Content warning: All the stories are mockingly grotesque and diabolically subversive and make fun of many different types of murder, self-mutilation and occult practices.  

Are you sitting comfortably?  You’re probably in the wrong chair. Join storyteller Stilly for six illustrated nursery rhymes, intended more to give you gleeful nightmares than sweet dreams. Vengefully macabre infants, morbidly obsessed youngsters and cursed minors all have stories to tell.  

Stilly’s Terrible Drawn Tales are rhyming stories accompanied by projected illustrations. They are told by the author/illustrator who shows all the works in detailed black and white pen drawings. The stories range from 5 to 10 minutes in length.   

 "Mildish Urges for Childish Dirges" is a collection of six tales all concerning children. The tales are...  

1. The Young Murderers - 26 children (all with names beginning with different letters of the alphabet) are put on trial for killing their parents in varied grizzly ways. 

2. The Heartless Bantling - a young boy discovers that he can profit from selling his teeth to the tooth fairy, so tries to find out how much he can gain from selling the rest of his body parts.   

3. Hassle and Gristle - a retelling of Hansel and Gretel for a modern bloodthirsty age.  

4. The Ninth Illusion - a young magician makes a pact with the occult to improve his magic show, with disastrous consequences.  

5. The Uneaten Dentist - Recently turned zombie parents become disturbed when their son refuses to eat brains.  

6. The Zugzwang Quartet - Four bored children play a game of "Creeping Dread."  It doesn't end well.  

Think of Roald Dahl showing a "Tales of the Unexpected" powerpoint presentation designed by Edward Gorey.    

"A true one-of-a-kind, mixing poetry, humour and storytelling with illustrations as enchanting and quirky as his written words."  

David Bramwell - The Odditorium  

"Irregular Folks is all about putting on a particularly high level of unique creativity. Stilly's poetry, visuals and performance had us all gripped from start to finish. It was the perfect mix of unique, amusing and inspirational content. There was content we could all relate to, enjoy and also have our eyes, ears and minds inspired by. It's a brilliant mixed-media experience that you can really lose yourself in, and I can't recommend it enough. We all walked away quoting lines from it, and I've invited him back many times since. "  

Vez Hoper, Irregular Folks  

"Deadpan delivery knocks every line to back of the net"  

Lee Woodway, Daily Info, May 2010  

“Unique, enthralling, otherworldly, under-the-radar, over-the-rainbow man of many splendours.” Matt Sage “Catweazle”