WE SENT A COPY OF THE NEW edited online KISS lecture to Richard McDougall, brilliant mime magician, FISM prizewinner and leading lecturer on motivational behaviour and in constant demand by corporate organisations all over the world.
He said “Sorry about contacting you but I have hit a putple patch of work and have only been home for [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2008 by John
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LAST NIGHT THE MAGIC CIRCLE STAGE MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR was won by – John Archer.High velocity comedian and excellent magician who combines the best of both skills to provide entertainment, which surely is the putpose of magic. To entertain. John is one of the younger generation of comedic performers but unlike many of his [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by John
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I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS OF INTEREST TO ANYBODY but in clearing our a lot of my stuff recently I came across a tie that belonged to Alex Elmsley. We were friends for over fifty years and when he died I helped clear his effects with his family and they gave me this tie along [...]
Posted on October 11th, 2008 by John
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THERE’S A CARD EFFECT I’VE HAD FOR YEARS – didn’t think much of it until a friend showed me a terrific adaptation he’d seen in Germany that made it outstanding and it’s now in constant use in my close-up and particularly mix and mingle shows. Visually it’s unbelievable and I stunned Tessa Jowell with it at a [...]
Posted on October 6th, 2008 by John
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DESPITE THE CREDIT CRUNCH, SOME DEALERS AT EASTBOURNE scored with the one thousand conventioneers. They were those who demonstrated their wares rather than just standing behind a array of polythene packets with coloured graphics and watching the money walk by. Notably Bob Swadling who works hard to show you what real magic is like by demonstrating all [...]
Posted on October 6th, 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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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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