Tickets are now on sale for my show “Magicana” at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Click here for details about the show. Having performed it at the Magic Festival in Edinburgh last year, I am very excited about returning to spend the whole month as part of the biggest arts festival in the world.

How does someone react when they realise their tie has been taken from them while they are wearing it, but they have no idea?

This picture was taken a few seconds before he realised.

If you want to see how he responded then watch here on YouTube.

I’m appearing at Conjuring at the court in Ealing (West London) on 26 January 2012 alongside Mel Mellers, Miss Ballooniverse and WAVE.
Details here.

I’ll be doing my thing at Steve Faulkner’s “Magic Nights” in Sheffield this Monday 19 September. Also I’ll be at “Magic Night” in Soho @ Madame JoJos on Friday 7 October.
Other acts on both bills look fantastic!

London: http://www.magicnight.co.uk (London)
and and an S to that URL for Sheffield : http://www.magicnights.co.uk/

I have added a page to the site with details of where you can see me performing my show (or part of it) in public over the next few months.

http://rob-james.com/magicana/

I realised earlier that I have loads of pictures on the blog from corporate events and weddings but not many from student events. Here’s a few taken at the recent “Confessions” VIP student event. A great night with a free bar, award-winning DJ and me doing magic!

I have been stealing watches from people (and giving them back - usually) for 7 years now. In the last 12 months I decided I needed a new challenge and started to learn how to steal a tie during the course of a magic trick. This is not easy and it meant the first few months of trying I generally got caught, which is always embarrassing. However this year I have had a breakthrough and am now able to get them fairly often.

The result is hysterically funny for those watching as they can’t believe that somebody would not be aware that their tie was being removed.

See the images below to see the tie steal (literally) unravelling:

First of all I get the guy into a false sense of security.

You will notice that his tie has now been loosened a little. He thinks I am just doing a coin trick.

Finally I am now wearing his tie but he doesn’t know about it.

I had an amazing experience working alongside my magician friend Simon Alexander at the UEFA Champions League Final at Wembley Stadium. We were both hired to perform close up magic in the VIP Broadcast Partners suite. Fantastic day (bugger to park though)

Some great pictures from a recent awards ceremony!

One of the most rewarding parts of being a magician is watching how people react to magic. I took this video myself on Saturday night when I was performing close-up magic at wedding in Bristol. The lady was being SO responsive to everything that I asked if I could film her on my phone for the ending of one particular trick. And here it is, her reaction is priceless!