Say yes Paul!

Just a quick post to let you know what I’ve been up to. I think the wedding season is wrapping up now (although I am getting loads of enquiries for next Summer). Looking at the diary for the rest of the year I am back to client events, awards dinners and that sort of thing until December and Christmas party season.

Last week I spent five enjoyable nights working at a series of client evenings for the kitchen firm Gaggenau at the very elegant One Marylebone in central London. A fun series of events where I was working alongside my friends Charles, Alison and Mike AKA the top silhouette artists in the UK. I have known them all for quite a few years so always good to see them.

A couple of days later I saw Charles again but this time in Reus (near Barcelona) where we were both in attendance at a friend of mine’s wedding. There were a few other magicians there too but most noticeably sat on our table was the legend that is Paul Daniels! In recent years I have been in a lift with David Blaine (not for one of his endurance stunts, I just happened to be in the same hotel as him!), backstage with David Copperfield and have dined with Derren Brown but nothing is quite as surreal as sitting chatting to the man who I grew up watching every Saturday night before I had even started learning magic. At 71 he’s still performing all the time and is very friendly and chatty. Later that evening he performed his excellent cabaret act - which is the same act that made him famous in the 1970s. But by far the best bit for me was earlier that day when he did the voices of the Wizbit characters for us!