October was busy with weddings and also Compereing the 80th Anniversary Gala Show of my Magic Club, with my last performance of the month taking me up to the Slate Conference Centre at Warwick University, to perform Close Up Magic at the CBRN pre conference dinner, for some 200 + delegates mainly from the emergency services, and mostly male, which was noval. I was given the freedom to work the room and bars as I felt was best, and tried to work with slightly larger groups of people, to ensure
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Sitting proudly in one of the main display pods in The Magic Circle museum is “The Discovery of Witchcraft”, written in 1584, not by a magician, but by a Magistrate Reginald Scot, and it is this book which contains the first chapter ever written in English on the subject of ‘Magic’. Published in the reign of Elizabeth I, Scott’s intention was to show that those who, at the time were being burnt at the stake for practising what we now know as the art of magic, were not heathens, wizards
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One of the advantages of being a professional magician, is that I get the chance to work with some of my true friends in Magic, and as the regular Host of The Magic Circle Close Up Show, something I’ve been doing for about 2 years now,  I get to do this on a regular basis. Below is yours truly with regular performers Robert Pound, Lewis Starnes, Chris Wood ( who came up with the idea of the show) This Friday night show (see www.themagiccircle.co.uk/events) is always sold out, and due
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The Bullet Catch that went Wrong – Chung Ling Soo (2nd April 1861 – 24th March 1918) This article is chronologically out of sequence in my series on magical history however, as you may have noted from the dates above, it is 100 years ago today, that this, perhaps infamous Magician died, so to mark the date, I have published this today. Born in Winchester County New York, William Ellsworth Robinson  became an established magician in the USA, however, at about the turn of the century an agent was looking
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I had to cover for a colleague at Matt and Leonie’s wedding on Thursday last week, and took over the booking about 3 days before, so I was unable to give them my usual service in the time leading up to their wedding at Marks Hall Guests gather on the patio and gardens for the drinks reception and for the first time ever, it rained at the time I was due to entertain the guests. Perhaps as it was all a bit last minute, I never had time to arrange
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