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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THE ANNUAL MAGIC CIRCLE DEALERS’ DAY, popular with magicians at the beginning of their busy social season, takes place this year on Saturday 1st November. It is staged again at the The Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury WC1. in the Edward and Alexander rooms from 10.00am until 5.00pm. Early indications suggest that over 50 dealers [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by John
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SINCE WE ANNOUNCED THE AVAILABILITY OF THE KISS LECTURE online as a pdf, we have had some very nice comments about the 50 page document.
One magician emailed us ”Many thanks for the downloads. The documents are really spendidly presented and it is going to be a pleasure reading them. This makes a refreshing change!”
This is particulalrly gratifying [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2008 by John
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IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE VENTRILOQISTS venture beyond the cheeky boy wooden dummy to present their craft. Not that there is anything wrong with that format as witness the fame of Charlie McCarthy, Archie Andrews, Lord Charles and other stars of the up and down lip movement.
But I always admired the presentation of Senor Wences who [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2008 by John
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I UNDERSTAND THAT ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MAGICIANS, JEFF HOBSON will be lecturing at the forthcoming convention at Eastbourne on….The Egg Bag.Some of you will have seen my recent blog on Egg Bags and my recent revival of interest after fifty years so I look forward to this feature. Obviously it’s to help him sell some [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by John
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FOLLOWING A FANTASTIC CAREER AS AN OUTSTANDING MAGICIAN, Channing Pollock went into the film business and starred in a number of films made in Europe. Not as a magician in a guest role but as a leading actor although he did some magic during the movies. These met with reasonable success of which the most [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2008 by John
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