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, to become one of Britain’s most successful professional magicians.

Now married and with a family, his success shows in his current lifestyle with a modern, stylishly furnished home, a Mercedes on the driveway and an engagement book filled with demands for his outstanding magic for months  and years ahead.

In my view he deserves everything he has achieved and the quality of his magic and thinking continues to be well ahead of the tribe. Three times Close-up winnerof the year at The Magic Circle, prizewinner at FISM and inventor of some of the most devilishly clever ideas that have been successfully marketed over the years. I remember when he first showed his effect “Spooked” in which a selected card in a borrowed deck cuts itself on the floor and shoots the selected card some distance from the pack. The pack is then returned to the owner. It’s just about the best haunted deck I’ve ever seen.

Then there was the time he stood in a cardboard box on a table, surrounded himself with a tube of cloth and then floated several feet into the air.It’s good. So good Paul Daniels took it on board for his show.

And publishers have sought his skills and there are now several books on magic by Nick for the lay public, not only in Britain but distributed all over the world in many languages.

Yesterday he generously showed me some of his current thinking. He’s got a very good, new twist on Steve Dusheck’s Lethal Tender and he’s working on a very smooth production and vanish of three coins that goes beyond Tri Fly.He also showed me a super routine of the coin in the bottle that is magic, magic all the way, including producing and vanishing the bottle.

He showed me these and several other Einhorn ideas that mark the individuality of his magic that makes him one of our most productive and original thinkers. He will be lecturing at the IBM Convention at Eastbourne in September and many of these ideas will be shown and included in a new DVD that he will have available at that time.

It was a great session in which Nick gave out many excellent thoughts and ideas on performing magic that is well above the ordinary; ideas that are not only magical but practical in performing terms. If you’re going to Eastbourne, don’t miss the Nick Einhorn lecture.

He reminds me very much of Al Koran who also was a man who burned with a fervour for creating great magic but with an individual twist to become a notable success.

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