THIS IS ASBSOLUTELY TRUE..Yesterday I did a sixty minute show for a club with an audience of a hundred and twenty and at the risk of appearing boastful it was an absolute burster. Around thirty to forty people came up to me afterwards with genuine ,wonderful comments about the show and about the entertainment factor They also wanted to talk about magic [...]
Posted on August 21st, 2008 by John
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I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ADVOCATE of working an act regularly until it goes like clockwork so that all your energy goes into the presentation. Many professionals have worked this way – Eddie Tulloch the king of the trade shows in the U.S. I’m told performed all his life with just a pack of cards, a pack of [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2008 by John
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AS IS WELL KNOWN I HAVE BEEN GIVING MY LECTURE/presentation “KISS” (Keep it Simple Stupid) for over three years to magic clubs throughout Britain and overseas with great success. It’s a technique I used with my advertising agency that won me much high profile business and in the last 12 years I’ve successfully applied it to the business of [...]
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by John
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JUST HEARD THE SAD NEWS OF THE PASSING OF CHRIS PRATT yesterday. An excellent magician and performer, an outstanding servant of The Magic Circle, their most efficient secretary for many years and a real gentelman. My wife said he would always come up to her at social events, give her a kiss on both cheeks and engage in [...]
Posted on August 12th, 2008 by John
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MANY HAVE NOTICED THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO BLOG on this site for the past three weeks or so. The spirit was willing but the computer had other ideas. It crashed and as a computer innocent I was lost and spent would you believe over four hours talking to a Dell technician in a call centre [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2008 by John
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DID A SHOW YESTERDAY IN BARNET in North London and had a call from Nicholas Einhorn who lives ten minutes away, inviting me to look in at his home in Elstree. I’ve been an Einhorn fan for many years and seen him develop from a highly enthusiastic amateur working as a salesman for a playing card company, [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by John
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SORRY FOR THE DELAY. I’ve been away visiting the magicians in Chester and presenting my lecture K.I.S.S. which is an acronym for “Keep it Simple Stupid” This is a lecture that I have done for the past few years for magic societies in the U.K. and overseas on the marketing of magic .It tells and demonstrates ”How to apply [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by John
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NO BLOGS OR NEWS FOR THE PAST WEEK as we have been away on holiday in Portugal. Great villa with pool and air conditioning but 100 degrees all week. Not enough energy to shuffle a deck and too much food and drink. However, back to the world.
I have a show next Tuesday at The Magic Circle [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by John
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HAD A DELIGHTFUL LUNCH WITH ROY WALTON and his wife Jean this week (started at 1.00pm and finished at 5.00pm!) during their brief visit to the big smoke. We have been friends since we were teenagers but after marrying Jean of the famed Davenport family, he gave up a career in the computing industry and decided [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2008 by John
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LIKE MANY OF YOU I PULL UP THE ‘YOU TUBE’ web site on the computer and find thousands of contributions, some good, some historical and some – Yuk!
Magic wise there are an awful lot of magicians doing their version of matrix and the like and many of them not good. However the site is full of some [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by John
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