Number 615 - 7th April 2012
Wayne
Dobson International Magic Lecture, London. International Magic are
delighted to have Wayne join them for a lecture in London on Tuesday 17th April.
The lecture, entitled 'Look No Hands' offers exactly what it says on the tin...
hands-free material from one of the UK's finest magic performers. Venue: Casa
Italiana, 2nd floor, 136 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5DL (Map).
Start time 7.30pm (be there by 7.15pm at the latest). Pay on the door (£15.00)
but you must reserve a place in advance, by emailing
martin@internationalmagic.com
www.internationalmagic.com.
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Steve
Faulkner's Magic Show. Tickets are now on sale for Sheffield's hottest
ticket: Steve Faulkner's Magic Show. Taking place on May 7th at one of
Sheffield's top venues, The Greystones, the show features Andi Gladwin,
Beatboxer Vid Warren and back by popular demand, John Archer (with a different
set from last time). Doors 7.30pm, showtime 8pm. Tickets are priced at £10 and
are available from
www.stevesmagicshow.com. Tickets will sell out so book now! Arctic Monkeys
and Magician Steve Faulkner: "In 2011 Magician Steve Faulkner spent some time on
tour with the Arctic Monkeys. With their permission, here's a little film
showing how, performed well, great magic can amaze pretty much anyone,
regardless of how much cool stuff they have seen." See
YouTube.
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The
Magic Triangle - Magic Mart: "The Magic Triangle (N.E. Essex) invite
Magicians to their 'Magic Mart' on Sunday 15th April at The Village Hall,
Thorrington CO7 8HQ (Map).
Doors open at 6.30pm. This is a chance to offer for sale any unwanted tricks or
props. Or to buy some more tricks or props for sale at their club's next sale
night. Tables only £5.00 each. To book ring The Hon. Chair: Keith Norman on
01206 543969 or email
themagictriangle@msn.com. There is map on the club's website
www.themagictriangle.co.uk".
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ADD-ICT
by Wayne Dobson. A complete sell-out at the Blackpool Convention! Here's one
of the effects: "A prediction is shown inside a small leather business card
holder. A deck of cards is handed to the spectator, they can shuffle them. The
spectator deals cards onto the magicians out-stretched hand. No force they stop
anywhere they like. The card they stop on matches the prediction exactly. The
deck is shown... every card is blank." Visit
www.waynedobson.co.uk
for more info and to watch a video.
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Ten
Things in Two Minutes. Merlins of Wakefield have started a new weekly
feature, asking magicians to reveal Ten Things in Two Minutes about themselves,
things that we didn't know and that aren't connected with magic. Merlins say
that they are always interested in the 'other' side of magicians; so this should
be a fun project. To launch they've asked
David Regal
and Levent
to have their say (click on their names to watch the videos). A new magician
will be added every week
www.merlinswakefield.com.
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Cardiff
Magical Societies Annual Dinner and Sale Day. Russell Wells writes: Not long
now until Cardiff Magical Societies Annual Dinner and Sale Day. The Dinner is
going to be a good night with a nice three course meal and coffee, a raffle,
cabaret, competition presentation and disco. It's at the Mount Sorrell, Barry,
South Wales. It's on the 21st April, 7pm arrive, sitting down at 7.30pm. Tickets
are £32 each. Please come along and bring your friends and family (please
contact a member of the committee to let them know you are coming). The following
day on the 22nd April is our sale day, also at the Mount Sorrell. 11pm - 4pm.
There will be at least 3 dealers and second-hand tables, you can have a table
for £5. There will be lectures and dealer demonstrations with food and drink
available to buy at the hotel.
www.cardiffmagic.org.uk.
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"A
master of magic – and a vision of Harry Potter in 40 years’ time. All Ian
Keable asks of his audience is to suspend disbelief and regress into childhood
as he performs a series of baffling illusions, occasionally announcing what he
is going to do beforehand – yet still we don’t get how he does it!" To read the
full article by Simon Wilkinson in the Halifax Courier
Click Here and see What's On
for current tour dates.
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Andy
Nyman's 'The Golden Rules of Acting' - to be published on 6th September 2012:
The book is a treasure trove of advice and useful tips about how to sustain a
career as a freelancer. Written as an easy to dip into pocketbook for actors, it
doesn't tell you how to act, but how to exist as an actor. Whilst primarily
written for actors, there's absolutely loads of great material that magicians
will find applicable to them. For a signed copy, with free UK p&p and 20% off
the cover price of £5.99, order before 6th September using the special voucher
code 'Signed copy'
Click Here.
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Marvin
Berglas, creator of Marvin’s Magic, was the first resident magician in the
Premier League and has been providing the magic element to match day hospitality
at Arsenal Football Club since 1993. This is his 19th consecutive season at
Arsenal where hospitality and corporate entertainment is big business. Marvin
heads a team of Britain’s finest magicians to entertain at Club and Box Level.
It is rather fitting that as part of Arsenal’s 125th Anniversary, coinciding
with the 25th Anniversary of Marvin’s Magic, that Arsenal have chosen Marvin to
be featured on their special banners surrounding the podium at the Emirates
Stadium. The Club has selected only 60 past players, celebrity fans and loyal
servants of the Club to honour in this way and the banner will remain up all
season; Marvin’s is nearest the Thierry Henry statue. Says Marvin “As a massive
Arsenal fan I was both thrilled and honoured to be recognised in this way…
Arsenal is a big part of my life, having supported them all my life as well as
playing in the Arsenal Ex Pro Celebrity XI for 16 seasons. In the past, I have
had my face on the big screens at Times Square, featured on the sides of London
Taxis and even on various cereal packs in the States but as a lifelong Gooner…
this is magic!”
www.marvinsmagic.com.
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Inflated
Odds by Darryl Rose: "Inflated Odds is a hilarious comedy routine in which a
prediction envelope is shown. A coloured balloon is freely chosen and placed
into a special balloon zapper. The spectator spins the zapper chamber and the
balloon is put to the magicians ear.... it does not burst. This continues until
the magician predicts that it will go off and then pointing away from the ear
the magician or spectator fires the zapper and it explodes. The envelope is
opened and inside not only does a prediction predict the colour of the balloon,
but also when the balloon bursts. Routines for Adults, Teen & Kids, Comes
complete with Balloon Zapper, Envelope & Balloons." What the professionals say:
"What a fantastic idea! Inflated Odd's is one of the best Russian Roulette
routines I've ever seen and it's safe." Marc Paul "Never have I seen such
a perplexing prediction... Perfect!" Max Somerset. "It's gonna add a BANG
to my show!" Mark Shortland. For more info and to order visit
www.darrylrose.com/magic/shop/Inflated-Odds.htm.
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Harry
Robson Leamington and Warwick Magic Society Lecture: "On Wednesday 18th April Harry Robson is lecturing at the Leamington and
Warwick Magic Society. Visitors are welcome for a £10 guest fee which includes a
buffet. 7.30pm for an 8pm start at Cubbington Sports & Social
Club, Windmill Hill, Cubbington, Leamington Spa CV32 7LN (Map).
www.magicsociety.co.uk.
Contact Mark Traversoni mark@themagiczone.co.uk if you wish to attend."
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The Art of Tommy Cooper
- 15 minutes past midnight tonight (Saturday 7th April) on BBC 4: Documentary about the life and work of comedian Tommy Cooper who was a
national comedy institution. This bumbling giant with outsized feet and
hands, whose mere entrance on stage had audiences erupting with
uncontrollable laughter, was born in Caerphilly in 1921. The programme
looks at the life and art of the man in the fez whose clumsy, fumbling
stage magic tricks hid his real talent as a magician. Former Magic
Circle Secretary, David Ball features and demonstrates the legs table
which Tommy used the night he sadly died on stage in a live TV show.
Also making valuable contributions to the programme are Magic Circle
member David Beckley, Barry Cryer and Tom O’Connor.
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Lee
Thompson will be presenting his Pickpocket Lecture at the British Magical
Society, on Tuesday April 10th demonstrating and explaining his
pickpocketing techniques, stage handling and misdirection together with his
"Sticky Fingers: The Anytime Anywhere Pickpocket Routine". Lee has been
performing for over 20 years, keeping a low profile on the magic radar from
conventions and magic clubs until now. He is the only British Pickpocket to be
head-hunted by Cirque du Soleil to headline in their touring show, performing
over 1,000 pickpocketing stage shows to 2.7 million people in 24 months. He has
just finished consulting for the National Geographic channel, and is due to
release his new pickpocketing book "School for Pickpockets" a complete treatise
on the art and practise of theatrical pickpocketing shortly.
www.britishmagicalsociety.co.uk
www.leethompson.com.
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Sebastian
Hunt lectures at The Surrey Society of Magicians on the 12th of April. "The
Great Sebastiano guides you through some of the essential sleights that every
true magician should have in his or her repertoire, there’s advice on performing
and creating magic in the real world and lots of other stuff! Whether you’re an
embittered professional magician working the corporate scene, or a young scamp
aspiring to take that first step into the real art of magic, this lecture is for
you! Members are free and visiting magicians are welcome for a £10 entrance fee,
the lecture takes place in Bookham, Surrey at 8pm for full details please
contact Adam Mosley
addmoses@blueyonder.co.uk".
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Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic.
Five in a row today, Saturday 7th April, on CBBC.
Iain Stirling presents the show in which four of the UK's hottest
magicians visit primary schools posing as supply teachers to deliver
some surprising magical lessons to the unsuspecting pupils. See
TV Magic. (My son loves this show! DT).
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Owen Lean, Kenny Lightfoot and Jack Wise amongst others will be performing this weekend at the Titanic Center in Belfast as part of the 100 year anniversary celebrations. Owen Lean says one of his ancestors helped design the titanic - thankfully, it was the interior! 7.4.12
Bill
Thompson. On Tuesday the 10th April, the funeral of Blackpool's Bill
Thompson will take place at Lytham Crematorium in Lytham, Lancashire at
3.30pm with a celebration of his life at Ribby Hall, Wrea Green, Lancashire,
starting at 5pm in The Rowan Suite. All are invited that knew Bill, to say
goodbye. Paul Zenon and Russ Stevens have requested no flowers, but rather a
donation to Paul's Wonderbus Charity (admin@thewonderbus.org).
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