Last minute thoughts on some of the highlights. * Mel Mellers who tore ‘em up in the opening show with his acerbic but very entertaining magic and comedy. * The entertaining act of Levent packed with a thousand very funny sight gags but an artiste whose depth of magic thinking is profound as witness his brilliantly devised [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2008 by John
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I’VE BEEN A GREAT ADMIRER OF NICK EINHORN for many years and have seen him grow in his magic and stature until today, when I believe he is amongst the top half dozen professional magicians in the country. In his performance, his thinking, his professionalism and his sheer imagination in presenting magic that goes far beyond the everyday. [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 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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I’VE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEGED that there is magic you do for your friends and your ego and there is magic you do for the paying public. Demonstrators versus entertainers. Nowhere was this philosophy more confirmed this week when I read that Nick Einhorn, one of our busiest, skilled and most successful performers did a high profile gig for [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by John
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RECENTLY I WAS ASKED TO JUDGE a close-up competition at the Ilford Magic Society, a club where I had lectured some time ago. As I was chatting with the two other lay judges before the contest, I remembered that the Ilford Magic Society was the club where some of our most famed professionals of today first riffled [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by John
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