The Pitfalls of Performing Magic to your Family and Friends
Our friends at the Merchant of Magic sent out a lovely email offering a free ebook a few weeks back!
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Magician, Author, Lecturer, Consultant. Drops more cards than he would like to admit.
Is the Twitter Bio for Dr Will Houstoun. Getting back to what we know best we asked Will for a
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Avengers: Infinity Saga Playing Cards by theory11
Premium playing cards inspired by Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga Since the debut of Iron Man in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has
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An Old School Magician!
Carlos Barragan has been a magician for more years than he cares to remember, third generation magician with so much
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The AVENGERS of MAGIC
Shin Lim And Colin Cloud. For the first time in America’s Got Talent history they combine Shin’s sleight of hand
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Connected: Live
An Online Magic Convention, March 20th 2021. Connected: Live” is an all-day online magic convention dedicated to virtual magic shows.
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Siegfried and Roy Collectors’ Box Set
Don’t miss this chance to own the Limited Edition Siegfried & Roy Collectors Box Set. In 2008, producer Paul Stone
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The One & Only – Mr John Archer!
I absolutely love this man, he makes me laugh a lot… John’s performance is the kind my Dad and I
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Cover Yourself As An Entertainer
Interacting with your audience is one of the most important things as a magician. It’s what many of us have
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Avoiding The Straight Lines
You may have read in an article we posted titled ‘Piff, Paff, Poof’ on the 27th of Feb, that we
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Are you ready to apply?
With the global pandemic you may have seen the amount of changes to television productions. Britains Got Talent announced back
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Kickstarting Your Idea
Lately we have seen a lot of posts on social media for companies who are launching their new ideas on
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Dictionary Definition of Enterology:
A form of contortion where the body is squashed and twisted into unusually shaped or very small spaces. There are
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Do you have something to share?
Have you created the next amazing trick and you want to tell the world about it? Have you written a
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‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice
I am obsessed with Alice In Wonderland, I love everything about the story, its literally my favourite book and I
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Zoom Magic and Mind Reading Show
LXKE TRIX is a comedic magician, mind reader and entertainer. He now brings his new one man interactive magic and
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From Lance Corporal to Winning Magician
Lance Corporal Richard Jones is the only Magician to ever WIN Britain’s Got Talent. Taking a look at his website and
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Have you seen our new section?
As an avid viewer of our website have you noticed our new section you can enjoy yet? We have launched
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Magic With A Twist
Using magic to engage, entertain and educate is a true skill as I am sure you will all agree. Taking
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MWM – The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
With the new road map for the UK announced last week venues around the country could start planning their re-opening
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Piff, Paff, Poof!
Last year we started our own collection of magic memorabilia, it started with a ‘thank you’ gift from me to
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Saturday 27th Feb FREE Chris Cross Variety Show!
Roll up, Roll up! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY watch “THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE TYNE” Newcastle’s Annual Geordie Variety Performance
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Cooper the Trooper
Being Cooper’s ourselves we (ok I ) will tell people I am related to no other than Tommy Cooper. I
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Summit by Patrick Kun – Suitable for Online Performances
At last, a thought of card to Sharpie that has NO card switches, NO sharpie switches, and a PRACTICAL yet
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Do you know the name John Van Der Put?
Magician. Comedian. Born in the UK. Performs under the name Piff the Magic Dragon. Winner of multiple awards, performing on
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Take a trip to the Illusionarium
As mentioned we were chatting to Jonathan Goodwin yesterday who was telling us all about a new project he has
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Building your playing card collection?
Is it just us that thinks building your collection is a challenge? If so, why not let fate play a
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Be there or be square..
Saturday 27th of February 2021 7pm GMT…. Join us for an interview with Jonathan Goodwin
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The 4 Core Magic Tricks Every Magician Should Practice and Master
The Merchant of Magic has 20,000+ magic tricks to choose from, which makes it extra hard choosing which one to
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Silly Old Brains
Derren Brown has announced he has a new podcast for us to enjoy! I started this and had to stop
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From Secondary School to Magic
It was Autumn 2008 that two secondary school teachers performed in their first magic show together, after only 18 months
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The World’s Toughest Card Trick by Will Fern
They freely choose the card. They shuffle the deck. You find it behind your back. Is this next level sleight
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Instant Download
You show a playing card, then place a marker in front of it. You then slide the card apart slowly
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EVOLUSHIN Magic Kit by Shin Lim
Most magic kits put focus on the “toys” in the kit and not the person performing them. Shin Lim has
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Are You A Key Worker?
Tim Lichfield, magician and member of the Magic Circle is offering one lucky Key Worker a chance to win one
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Can You Predict The Lottery?
John Archer can – well he did on Britains Got Talent 2019. We love John here at Abracadabra Blow, this
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Thought Transmitter
This does what no other wallet in the world does. Without opening the wallet, you can divine in an instant,
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Bicycle Robot Playing Cards (Factory Edition)
Automata have interested mankind for thousands of years. Inventors and engineers from ancient civilizations across the globe created robotic machines
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Abracadabra Blow Exclusive
Well readers, all week we have been teasing about our Exclusive Interview with non other than Mr Jamie Raven! From
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Magician Conjuror Wizard Liar
Are the four words that sit under our next interviewees name on her own website…. no other than Billy Kidd!
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Everything I Just Told You Is A Con
Sean Heydon takes cups and balls to a new level.. using buckets and a head 🙂 Enjoy, I know we
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Happy Heavenly Birthday
We noticed it would have been Norm Nielsen’s 87th Birthday on the 17th of February, in tribute we would like
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What’s In The Box?
Fancy ordering yourself a mystery box of magic this month? Well look no further, our friends over at the Merchant
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Do All Magicians Like Doves?
I think we all know the answer to this question… we know one man who does that’s for sure, no
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Magic For Cool Cats
If you love magic, drawing simple cartoons and cats then its an obvious name choice for your third book, right?
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How Precious Liberty Is
And how easily it can be lost, are the words David Copperfield used to explain why he made Lady Liberty
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Trypophobia by Dr. Cyril Thomas
After his best sellers, Banderaction & Faith Hacker.. The doctor has done it again, but this time he’s gone too
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I Absolutely Love What I Do
These are 6 words I am hearing a lot lately. Being happy in your chosen profession, job, career or whatever
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Did you know you can print your own magic?
Those of you who have read the ‘About Us’ page of our website will know that I work full time
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ChatterFox – Wayne’s Latest Lecture!
How many times have you been asked to show some magic, just caught off guard? We can imagine it’s a
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Want some magic with a discount?
Who doesn’t right? We all love to save money, especially in the midst of a global pandemic. Abracadabra Blow will
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What Is The Secret Behind A Magic Trick?
Guest Blog written for Abracadabra Blow By Phil Taylor – Magician www.magicianscorner.co.uk or check out the podcast at www.magiciansadvice.com The secret
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Breaking News…..
To follow up from our article last week on Mr Derren Brown we have just seen the breaking news on
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Top 10 easiest tricks to learn at home!
We noticed this when researching, from our good friend Murray Sawchuck, easy to learn tricks! Just because these are easy
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Getting up for work every day is effortless
These are words from a truly beautiful woman, Lupe Nielsen. Since the launch of Abracadabra Blow I have been learning
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Corporate Entertainment
A few years ago at a work event I was lucky enough to meet the fabulous Laura London. Laura is
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Update from Blackpool Convention
For those of you not scouring facebook this morning we have seen an update from the Blackpool Convention which goes
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Female Houdini & First Lady of Magic
Pioneer woman magician and escape artist are all words used to describe Dorothy Dietrich. Many of the things she has
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An old favourite
Yesterday whilst having a clear out of a chest of draws we found not one but two Dynamo Kit’s which
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Derren Brown ‘Showman Tour’
If like us you were looking forward to the ‘Showman’ tour of Derren Brown’s which was due to run last
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Where would we be without the Creators?
Normand Beauchamp is a French Canadian, a creator of magic tricks and illusions. Since 2008 Normand has been designing, manufacturing
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A Request For Help
We noticed a post yesterday on social media from Caroline Ravn which was calling for feedback/help. HELP NEEDED – I’ve
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Valentines Day Magic
At a loss of what to do this year for Valentines? Well look no further! Why not organise a Valentines
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Is Business Booming?
We have just seen an article on the ITV News Website which is talking about how business is booming for
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Want to learn some new tricks?
Penguin magic, based in Las Vegas, Nevada offers magic tricks, DVDs, videos, and performance supplies to magicians of all skill
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You’ll like this….
Everybody remembers the legend that was Mr. Paul Daniels, he was my idol and I couldn’t wait ’til Saturday nights
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We have something special for you…
We have been busy working on a series of exclusive interviews for you, as you will have seen we have
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Sean Heydon & The Magic Circle
Our friend and BGT star Sean Heydon has announced that tonight he will be holding a zoom lecture to Magic
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We won’t spam you
Hopefully by now as you are reading this on our website the little annoying subscribe box has popped up. We
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Hall of Fame
Penn & Teller are the undisputed kings of magic in Las Vegas, they have the longest-running magic residency in Vegas
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Free Lockdown Lecture anyone?
Our friend Justin Miller is offering fantastic free.. thats right FREEE zoom lectures. Head over to www.mentalsights.com to check it
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Fool me once, fool me twice…fool me three times?
We love Shin Lim here, he is one of Antony’s favourite magicians. We had the pleasure of meeting him in
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Mentalist – Bizarrist
Michael Price is based here in the UK and can often be found performing across the Leicestershire and Warwickshire areas.
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The first women….
Charlotte Pendragon.. what a women! The first woman to receive “The Magician of the Year Award” from the Academy of Magical
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Cups & Balls
So going back to my first post, if the Prince of Wales got into the Magic Circle by doing this
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Making Zoom Magic
Have you been presenting on Zoom over the lockdown period to an audience? Why not join a 1 hour and
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From AGT to BGT…
We have been taking a look at some of our favourite tricks performed on TV and wanted to share this
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Bozo the Clown
This morning I received an email from my Dad, telling me some news about one of The Beatles and a
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Murray Sawchuck!
Murray Sawchuck wowed the Americas Got Talent audience and judges. The video below is one of the greatest illusions to
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