The theme of the magic was “Colour Changes and Classics”
and was led by David Whitson.
The first magician to entertain us was Steve Irwin,
who did a baffling routine of colour changes of silks in his hands – white to
red, vanished the red – red to white – white to red. It was fast, eye-popping magic.
Then Noel Clair picked several coins from Graham
Holstein’s ear. Noel thought that this
trick, taking coins from a spectator’s ear, was the single most successful of
all tricks he did. He moved on to the
colour changing knives and showed them changing from ebony handles to ivory and
back as he told us an intriguing tale of an Indian Maharajah who owned
them.
From this, Noel went into a comical effect with an egg
bag that kept changing the colour of the bag every time he handled it. Noel then did the classic disappearing pen
and pen-cap. Finally, using elastic
hair holders around his fingers, he told us a story of a green coloured band
chasing his one true love – the pink coloured band - despite the opposition of
the girl’s father – an orange coloured band - trying to stop them jumping from
finger to finger.
The classic colour changing colouring book was
displayed for us by Andrew Pickard. He
recalled as a child being given a book of blank pages for him to draw in, and
as he grew older, he was able to draw nice outlines (by magic!) and then as he
grew older still, he was able to fill the outlines with colour (by magic!).
John Ferguson did the card item “Eight Card Brainwave”
in which a spectator chooses one of eight cards. The remaining seven cards are shown to be red
backed. John waves over the chosen card,
and when the spectator turns it over, the back has changed to blue. John also presented an item in which a bottle
of solution changed colour to red when he swirled it. When next he shook the bottle, the colour
changed instantly to green. He explained
the chemistry behind this.
A spectator was asked by Michael Blakeman to spread
the deck face up, and then to photograph the whole mess of cards. The spectator then moved one card to a
different place while Michael looked away. Michael then looked at the photograph
and was able to name the card that had moved.
Our host, David Whitson, and a spectator each took a
piece of white paper and bunched it up.
They put the papers into a box, and with a magic word, David produced
from the box masses of multi-coloured streamer.
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