My visit to the SCA

 

 

What a great night I had at the SCA. I was presenting  a brief talk on routining, and I had a fabulous time. I had the absolute joy of presenting Mentalism, 'soft' bizarre and card 'stuff'.

 

It was literally like coming home. The SCA is without a doubt my home turf.

 

It was great to see a few familiar faces and also a few new ones. I cannot put into words the respect I have of this group.  Of course I have been involved with it on off  over the last 30 years.

 

The Bizarre material really takes me back to my first love as it were. This is where I feel most at home.

 

It has been suggested that the content could be used to structure a new lecture. Hmm!!! I need to think about that.

 

To be honest I expected to get a bit of  a hard time, because in the 'talk' I also spoke about palmistry and tarot readings and magicians tend to NOT be overly fond of these subjects, but to be fair to the members they listened to what I had to say. Although I doubt that I converted anyone.

 

This type of evening makes me long for the bizarre days and the conventions. Maybe, I should once again venture forth into the realm of the bizare and arcane arts!

 

Ah! What a breath of fresh air.

 

Till next time,

 

Fare ye well.

 

David.

 

 

 



VISIT TO THE SCOTTISH CONJURERS ASSOCIATION AND EDINBURGH MAGIC CIRCLE

Hi there, I have an interesting week ahead of me this week. First and foremost a visit to my local magic club the Scottish Conjurers Association. I will be presenting a small talk on ‘routining’. I also plan to present a couple of ‘sets’ to demonstrate my thinking on this.

One piece is a ‘soft’ bizarre presentation of four pieces blended together to make the first set.

Secondly a piece of mentalism/psychic entertainment, again with four combined elements to create my second set.

If time permits I may well run through a playing card sequence which includes many of the classics routine and reset at the end.

This penchant for routining and resetting is possibly reaching obsession level.

This card sequence, when presented in full, is in actuality three separate sets, with individual effects linking the sequences.  Everything is reset at the completion and ready to roll again.

There would never be enough time to perform this at the SCA, so guys, don’t panic!

However, the main focus of the evening is on routining with the soft bizarre and mentalist presentation.

 

I am also delighted to say that I will be attending The Edinburgh Magic Circle on Monday 8^th April to present in part The Psychic Experience Show. As this show was actually developed for a different ‘type’ of audience, I will be presenting a very different second half to the show.

I suspect that most magicians are not really interested in clairvoyance and mediumship, so there will be less of the ‘psychic’ and more of the ‘entertainment’. Whereas my public shows are more psychic based.

All in all a very interesting few days ahead.

 

Bye for now,

David.