FEATURE- VANISH MAGIC MAGAZINE

Having the opportunity to have your own regular show is usually on every performers list, especially as a magician. The inspiration most likely comes from seeing an incredible magic show.


 Dreams come in many forms and definitions. They can be fantasies that are imagined throughout everyday life about events that may occur in a reimagined life: they could be anything from completing a marathon, reaching the summit of a mountain or a far distant place, to smaller more achievable feats, such as passing a driving test or sipping a cocktail in the sun on a beach( or even at the end of a busy week in your back garden, hoping the sunshine appears). There were a few dreams I had growing up centered in and around the world of magic that included lecturing at the Blackpool Magic Convention, performing at the world-famous Magic Castle, touring my own magic show, and, slightly away from magic, being able to play a decent round of golf. So far, I’ ve achieved over half of these, though the latter one may need the most work!

Having the opportunity to have your own regular show is usually on every performers list, especially as a magician. The inspiration most likely comes from seeing an incredible magic show. Mine came whilst witnessing Hans Klok ' s show, ' The Houdini Experience ', at the Peacock Theatre, London in 2012. This was at a time where magic shows weren ' t too popular in the capital, but I was genuinely happy and surprised to see the city ' s often more skeptical crowd embrace the show and his presentation of magic and illusion. I would not necessarily have intended reaching that kind of scale, however it set off a series of some of the smallest of light bulbs in my head and realised that London was perhaps ready for a regular theatre magic show again. Every idea has a beginning …

Therefore, in 2013, I decided to put on a show in the West End of London. As you may have realised, there weren’ t too many, if any, regular magic shows in central London at the time. This show would be a reincarnation of a set of shows that evolved from my old magic club, the Demon Magic Club, who met every Saturday in the studio of the London’ s oldest family run magic shop, Davenports. The young members were encouraged to put on a Christmas show every year, under the directorship of Fergus Roy and Betty Davenport. The club disbanded in 1997 and 10 years later the ex-members, the majority of who seasoned into full time performers, got back together and put on a show for old times ' sake at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, South East London, and then again in 2010 and 2011 at the New Players Theatre( now the Charing Cross Theatre) in Charing Cross, central London. The show was a mixture of ex-members, some of whom had kept magic as their hobby, and others who had followed the path to being professional entertainers.

8 NOVEMBER | 2025