Blog Archive:

The following are blogs taken from my old website. I have thousands of these entries and over the next few months I will try and copy and paste the most relevant ones over. Hopefully these will give an idea of some of the past events I have performed at.

Corporate Magician Berkshire

On Saturday night I was hired by the aerospace company, Rockwell Collins, to perform at their annual New Years celebration (late in the new year as it was February!!) at the Macdonalds Berystede Hotel in Ascot.

When the client initially contacted me they weren’t entirely sure of the type of performance they required, they were thinking either table magic or my cabaret show. When ever this situation arises I will always call the client to discuss things in more detail. As soon as I spoke to them it became apparent that they had quite a packed evening with drinks, dinner, speeches and a band so therefore I felt it would be too much to try and fit the cabaret show in as well so a close up performance was the way to go.

On the night itself I arrived an hour early to check out the venue, I have been here before but i’d forgotten and didn’t realise until I drove through the gates! I always like to arrive before the client for corporate events. It gives me a chance to prepare, meet the staff at the venue and prepare any logistics. By the time the client arrives I’ll be sorted and I’ll be one less thing for them to worry about.

As far as my performance went I started at 7pm as people arrived for the drinks reception (I actually started a little later than this as I always like to give people the chance to get in the door and get drinks in hand before I start). I performed for about 40 minutes during the drinks reception. I always like to keep things simple and relaxed during this most informal of time, what I like to think of as my warm up before I get into the heavier mind reading later!

As soon as people were seated for dinner I started performing at the tables. There were 12 tables, each with about 10 guests. I had approximately an hour and a half to get around the tables before the band started to play which meant each table could have a 10 minute routine.  It’s always hard to work this out for certain in advance as I will always stop whilst the main course is served but in this case I could perform at one end of the routine whilst the first few tables were being served, by the time the waiting staff got to me, the first few tables had finished eating and I could perform for them. The logistics of this doesn’t always work out so well but last night was perfect. It even gave me a five minutes left over at the end to perform a special routine for the table of directors and the people who’d been kind enough to book me.

The whole evening was a huge success and I was very pleased to be asked by the company to perform at another event for them next month. In my next blog entry I’ll write a little more about an actual performance and slightly less about the practical side of things.

If you’d like to book a Berkshire magician for your corporate event please get in touch.

Berkshire Magician – Dinner Show

On Saturday night I performed a small cabaret show at Maple Durham Golf course. This was an event for club members, a dinner followed by a show. This is always one of my favourite type of events to perform at, a small intimate affair where I get a chance to get to know the audience. I started the evening performing close up at the tables. In this way I could chat the audience prior to the show and get an idea who would be the best people to work with later on for the main show. My dinner show is basically a smaller version of my main stage show, designed to be performed at any event without the need for staging and a day of set up before hand. I can get to the venue and be ready to go within an hour.

The show itself is about an hour long. Throughout the show all of the audience are involved in feats of mind reading and psychological magic and illusion. What I like best about performing a formal show in an informal environment is that I can change things about during the show. Halfway through this show I decided to perform something I rarely get  chance to perform due to it needing the perfect audience member. There was one lady who I thought would be ideal. Together we performed a routine that involved dowsing using a crystal pendulum. This is about as close to a a real demonstration of psychic powers that I’m willing to believe in. I was as amazed as the audience when it actually worked and have no idea how it actually works. If you ever see me perform ask me to try it out, truly amazing when it works.

The whole evening was a huge success. I stayed around afterwards after packing up (my least favourite part of any show) to chat to the audience and was very pleased to get a couple of bookings for private events later in the year.

If you’re after a Berkshire magician for your event please get in touch. 

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