UPDATED: 27TH MARCH 2018 I was reading through some old blog posts and came across this one from 2013 (God, that seems so long ago). What struck me most was how the main point – the importance of booking a PROFESSIONAL magician – is increasingly relevant today; a time when pretty much anyone can build …
The AMAZING, TOP SECRET Technique I Used to Beat TEN Magicians to a Gig!!! Read More »
UPDATED: 2ND MAY 2018 In a recent change to my marketing efforts, I’m going to be using performing as a way of networking. Being a freelancer has taught me that the best enquiries and clients are those that have seen me work already: they’ve seen me do my thing and they know I’m the right …
UPDATED: 21ST JUNE 2018 Most of my working life as a magician is spent doing very “work-y” (i.e. boring) things: working on the website, writing promo material, watching Netflix etc. You know, the important stuff. Yesterday’s workday, however, was unlike any of my previous ones. I’d been asked by the mighty @shitchester if I would …
“What you can do with a smartphone and some passion” (or “The Shit Chester Interview”) Read More »
You might know that I’ve recently started to have a go (that’s the best way to describe it) at performing stand up comedy. It’s something that I’ve always wondered if I could do and, even though it scared the living heck out of me, I thought it was time to get up there and have …
UPDATED: 15th May 2018 As you can probably imagine, there are lots of fun things that I get to do as a magician. However, there are also some weird things that I have to do, to either prepare for a gig or learn a new trick, that are a little bit unusual. To give you …
New things are fun and exciting. They can also be quite terrifying. As a magician, I’ve worked pretty hard at creating tricks that I use daily. I work on the sleights, the presentations and also where to carry the darned things when I’m working. I also rarely add new material or tricks to this, unless …
In my earlier post, we looked at ways to set yourself up to be fun(ny). One of the key elements was about knowing what makes YOU laugh. You have to realise that if something makes you laugh, it’ll make others laugh too, so focus on that. You’ll “sell” a joke much better when you believe …
Following a recent conversation with a colleague, in which I was asked to “think bigger” about what I wanted, I began to explore the idea of teaching ideas that, while based on magic technique and theory, have real world applications, and could actually prove useful to people. The more I looked into this, the more …