Friday Nightlife

We arrived at winter gardens at around 10am today we decided to skip the Martin Sanderson lecture as he cancelled his lecture at late notice for our club. This gave us time to have a look around the dealers (see picture - received anonymously) we even decided to skip David Solomon’s lecture if you managed to see his lecture please comment on this post.

Chris Priest
Great lecture, many good routines starting with his master coin routine, which is like a 3 fly with 4 coins and a shell, very nice indeed. He then moved on to cards first with his ace reception and then super control. He ended with protons which links sponge balls and d'lites. Enjoyable, 7/10.

Shawn Farquhar
Excellent! Great magic great humor! "He likes it easy". This guy has worked the same cruise ship for 10 years which shows you how good he is. He started with a fabulous matrix routine with poker chips then showed how it could be done with coins, some lovely moves in that routine. Next were some clever ideas with CDs and dry wipe pens. He moved onto his omni deck routine and told how and why his omni deck was made differently. He discussed a great idea of having card suit shaped confetti fall from a deck to change it into a black deck. The last thing for me was the best, it was a torn and restored photo which is similar to Harlan's crazy 8 trick but soooo much stronger, I’ve had Harlan's trick for years and never used it, but I will go home and make this up. Rating 9/10.

David Stone
What can I say, he was fab! He started by showing the video of what not to do as a pro magician which I’m sure you've seen on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTh9rTmMcHQ). There were glasses, bottles and shoes appearing, dropped coins jumping back into his hands and even strange uses for a packet of three available from you local pubs loo. It was packed in the lecture room everyone wanted to see this guy, a lot of people were wearing I hate David Stone shirts or stickers, and yet everyone there loved him. A few people I saw were a little bit put off by the language, (I mean swearing not the French) but even those few couldn't help but be impressed. 9/10 from me.
Matt said: Excellent lecture, very informative and great visual effects which were very well presented with video and music. 10/10.
Geoff said: Ces't magnifique! 9.8/10.

Although we appear to be staying in the pink palace, it's far from it, one of the funniest things of the trip so far is the sign in the bathroom that says 'Power' shower, should really be 'Trickle' Shower. And why is it that hotel shower curtains want to get so intimate?

(Photo: David Stone)