JUST BACK FROM THE EASTBOURNE CONVENTION and down to earth with a million emails to check out. There were many great highlights at Eastbourne and so I think to give justice to them I’ll blog news day by day rather than give you a whole book of reviews. Big, big on the wow factor was the [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by John
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NO MORE BLOGS I’M AFRAID FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS as along with many others I’m off to the IBM Convention at Eastbourne. And with the world-class line up of talent I’m looking forward to it more perhaps than in previous years. It’s always been a pleasant convention but perhaps a bit parochial in the past [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2008 by John
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FOLLOWING MY ENTHUSIASTIC BLOG YESTERDAY about the outstanding lecture I saw on Tuesday by Pat Page, I had a sudden thought. Some time ago Matt Field, Editor of The Magic Circle magazine and one of magic’s most experienced and prolific writers, told me that he was in the process of writing a new book with Pat Page. [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2008 by John
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LAST NIGHT WAS VERY SPECIAL I went to a lecture by Patrick Page organised by International Magic and it was one of the great evenings in magic. I have known and admired Pat’s work for many years and in his previous lectures he has always shown many good ideas – a stunning vanish of a coin in a silk, [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by John
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I WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE DAYS OF VARIETY from the stages of the music halls in and around London. It is a genre that died at the hands of television and with it the bills that included a menu of singers, dancers, comedians, speciality acts, magicians and the like that compounded into the title – variety. [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by John
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AS HAS BEEN STATED IN EARLIER BLOGS I have given the KISS lecture for over four years at magic clubs throughout Britain and overseas. I was encouraged by many magicians to make this available in an extended edition online which was launched just a few weeks ago. And truthfully the response has been quite astounding [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2008 by John
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IN LONDON NEXT TUESDAY 16th SEPTEMBER, at the Casa Italiana Restaurant in Clerkenwell Road, through the courtesy of Martin McMillan at International Magic, you can see one of the great performers and originators in magic. Patrick Page.A lifetime as a professional who has appeared in over 200 cities of the world and who has given his ideas-packed [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by John
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WE’VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE EMAIL as to what is the ring effect that is portrayed in the heading of “Come a Little Closer”. Well, it’s something I’ve done for the past ten years. It’s not brilliant magic but it’s been the perfect banquet table crasher that gets attention and quickly signals that magic is about to [...]
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by John
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THAT’S THE TITLE OF A NEW BOOK on “Surprisingly interesting Everyday Maths” by Rob Eastaway that contains much trivia that will be of interest to magicians.It includes a piece on the mathematical likelihood of a random selected card. For a man he indicates that the card is most likely to be the seven of spades. For [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by John
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THERE ARE MANY VERSIONS AROUND but in a recent tv interview Groucho Marx of the famed Marx Brothers summed it up very succinctly.
When asked how they became a great act with superb timing, funny material and sight bits he said ” Well, way back we did thirteen shows a day. If a gag went well [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by John
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