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Griffin May 21 Hello fellow magi! I hope you’re all keeping safe and well. Things are looking very promising and we could be back to face to face meetings in the not too distant future! For now though we have continued with our monthly online meetings and this month we had a ‘Joining The Magic Circle’ themed evening. On the night we had guest speaker Matthew Garrett. Matthew is one of the Magic Circle exam secretaries and his role is to meet and greet upcoming and potential new members and to help get them prepared for their exam. Matthew gave us a brief tour around the club website and explained the process you have to go through to become a member of the magic Circle. We also got a sneak peek of the Magic Circle apprentice and the members only Facebook pages which was intriguing to see. Of course currently clubs are not meeting in person and so interviews and exams have had to be done online via zoom. As well as Matthew Garrett we had some of our very own NWMC members talk about their journeys to becoming members of the Magic Circle. Howie Fay is one of three magicians which make up the group ‘The Magicians in Black’. Howie became a member of the magic circle on the 27th July 2000. Howie had Allie Bongo as his sponsor. For his exam he came on stage with his furry companion ‘Rocky Racoon’ and Rocky very quickly stole the limelight, to which Howie had to remind him; “This is my exam!” He then went on to perform a very comical Card in mouth, followed by Dave Williamson’s very graceful ring on rope and finally a very visual and eye popping Bill switch. Howie had no intentions of joining the magic circle but thanks to Jed, who became a member himself, he was ‘forced’ to also become a member. Jed is another performer in the group ‘The Magicians in Black.’ Chris Williams has very recently passed his Magic Circle Exam but first visited and performed there in July 2013. Chris was a magic circle apprentice for 18 months and is now an official member. For his exam, Chris performed his ‘lucky cups’ routine where he poured hot coffee into one of three cups and they were then mixed up. A spectator was then asked if they had a lucky number to which they called out. They then had a free choice of one of the three cups, which would eventually be tipped over their head! Chris took the other two cups and ran the risk of tipping them above his own head and lo and behold they were both empty! Chris then revealed that the bottom of the cups had his lucky number on them, 21. By this point the spectator would be ‘bricking it!’ 2 The finale was having the chosen cup tipped over the spectators head but to everyone’s surprise (and relief) it too was empty! The final cup was revealed to have the spectators lucky number underneath, lucky number 7! Chris performed 2 other effects, both classics of magic. One of them was his own take on Scott Alexander’s ‘The Blades/Needles’, instead using Fruit loops and floss. Chris closed his routine with a unique take on ‘The 21 card trick’ to bring back that lucky number of his once again. Steve Ashcroft is our President Elect at the North Wales Magic Circle and also shared his journey to becoming a member of The Magic Circle. He opened his exam performance with a packet trick called ‘The Poker Test’ by Erik Casey. This is a very clever ‘observation test’ where four blue backed cards are shown with blank faces. Upon asking questions, as part of the observation test, one of the cards turns into an ace. The spectators are then asked “What colour are the backs of the cards?” When they respond with blue the cards are turned over to show they now have red backs and for a kicker ending the other four cards have changed into the cards which make up a royal flush! Steve then went on to perform ‘Ring on rope’ and finished with his classic ‘Cups and Balls’ routine. So what next? The Committee is monitoring the situation as we go and we are very optimistic! We could be back to face to face meetings very soon, we will keep you posted. I would like to once again thank our amazing committee for all their hard work in this very unusual year! Keep safe all and keep the magic alive! All the best, Scott PS Tim asked me to remind everyone that once “real” meetings start, the provisional timetable is:- Month 1 Close-Up Competition Month 2 Lecture Month 3 Mentalism Competition So get practicing! (Ed) LITTLE KNOWN MAGIC FACT The magical words ”hocus pocus” are created because of the name of a sorcerer in the Norse mythology who was called Ochus Bochus 3 You may have noticed a slight change in the cover page theme this month! This cover was Howie Fay’s personal favourite and was first published 15 years ago, so in his honour it’s made a re-appearance! I’m touching wood (NOT a euphemism!) as I type this so as not to tempt fate, but things are starting to change for the better. Magic shops are -re opening for personal visits (albeit having to book appointments), and live magic shows are being advertised for later in the year. The next lockdown review is due mid May, lets hope for more good news. Maybe “real” meetings for NWMC may be possible before too long. Fingers and toes crossed as well! I received several emails from Members concerned about the bunny in last month’s Politically Incorrect Corner. I wish to assure readers that no bunny was hurt during production of The Griffin. He was just wearing a skeleton costume! As proof here is bunny replying personally to all your emails! Hope this puts your minds at rest! See you soon, hopefully! Paul [email protected] Posted on our Facebook page by Mike Harris. “When you have a spare Saturday afternoon an old IKEA cabinet, a spare lighting stand and some sticky backed plastic, what you gonna build? Chuffed at how it turned out.” A really good job. This looks great. (Ed) And a bit of late news - I’ve just found out that Mike had been awarded the Noel Massey Trophy last November(!) for services to our Circle. Thoroughly deserved! 4 Kevin Quantum performs daredevil stunt at Edinburgh Castle The stunt took place at 1pm on Thursday April 29th as the Castle gun fired. It involved Kevin carrying out a death-defying blindfolded walk through a gauntlet of flaming cannonballs. The stunt was designed to mark the moment the country begins to open up after life in COVID-19 lockdown and the return of live performance. You can watch on You Tube: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGTGDSv6qY (NB the actual performance starts at 5 mins into the video.) Rather him than me! (Ed) 5 NEWS IN BRIEF MOST DISGUSTING TRICK EVER PERFORMED ON FOOL US! Go over to You Tube and type in Mac King, and watch this performance! Does he really eat a doughnut out of the toilet? Well, you’ll just have to watch and find out! It’s fair to say the trick didn’t fool Penn & Teller and that it’s doubtful you would use it in your restaurant residency! - but it is very different and funny! Magician to binman for Woolston resident Ian Zippy Lees I came across an article in the Warrington Guardian about a well known local children’s entertainer whose business was obviously devastated by Covid lockdown and left him with no income. He said: "It was a case of getting off my backside and doing something“, so he took a job with the local Council. Lets hope that before too much longer he can get back to his passion and “proper” job! For the full story go to: - www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ news/19186305.magician-binman-woolston-resident-ian-zippy-lees 6 NEWS IN BRIEF BANK DIRECTOR MAGICIAN Seen in the VN Express, Vietnam. Ngo Duc Duy, director of a credit institution, balances career and passion by performing high-skilled magic shows on weekends. The banker has, since becoming a director, performed at 100 gigs in more than 10 localities in the country, but a majority of the shows are still in Saigon and Hanoi. Reminds me that I’ve been called a merchant banker a few times! (Ed) News from Simon Drake at his House of Magic: After a year of staring at the wall, abandoning badly dubbed Netflix shows and rather disastrously acting simultaneously as a hairdresser and customer, I snapped out of my trance and ventured forth to delve deep into the archives in the cellar below my Victorian theatre, where original documents, plans and faded faxes are stored. These involve details of my work over 40 years in this industry and 25 years of running a busy theatre in London entirely devoted to magic. I am therefore pleased to announce that I have launched a Patreon page which includes enthralling videos previously unseen in the public domain, rare and fascinating ephemera detailing secrets of The Secret Cabaret and mysteries of the spirits of The House of Magic. Patreon is a secure subscription interface and seems the ideal medium for premiering and explaining the many videos of original illusions and manip routines I have up my sleeve.
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