I HAVE LONG BEEN AN ADVOCATE of the philosophy that magic is not about secrets – it’s about performances. Not just my belief but that also of such giants of magic and theatre presentation as John Fisher, Pat Page, Jeff Hobson, Richard McDougall and Bobby Bernard. It’s the basis of the KISS lecture that I [...]
Posted on October 29th, 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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LAST NIGHT WAS VERY SPECIAL I went to a lecture by Patrick Page organised by International Magic and it was one of the great evenings in magic. I have known and admired Pat’s work for many years and in his previous lectures he has always shown many good ideas – a stunning vanish of a coin in a silk, [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by John
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HERE’S A PERFORMING TIP that was passed onto me by Pat Page, that most generous of ideas men. I, like Pat, do quite a few weddings, dinners and the like where we perform close-up magic at the guest’s tables. But what pays off handsomely is to offer at the end of the dinner to present a [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by John
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FOR YEARS I RESISTED PERFORMING the ambitious card effect. It’s such a good trick that everybody was doing it but I found that the magical impact was such that I could just not leave it out of my close-up programme. The routine I finished with is part classic, part Vernon, part Pat Page and for the [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by John
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In two days I’ll be on the 10.36 from Euston en route to the biggest magic convention in the world at Blackpool. And so will dozens of other magicians from the south. One of the delights of travelling by train to this event is that you get to meet and talk with many other magicians [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by John
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