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Hi Guys,

None of you know me but I will be there this year.
Would be great to meet up with you guys and get to know new people.
Will be there from Saturday onwards...
(Bloody boss won't give me Friday off)
See you all soon I will have the name SPANKY on my badge.

Regards

Ian (AKA SPANKY)

I may not have been able to get to any Leeds meets ...

but I wil be going to Blackpool this year !

UPDATED

Mark

I'll be there, same hotel as Lawrence I think and I'm up for clubbing one night this year

Agecroft wrote:Mark

I'll be there, same hotel as Lawrence I think and I'm up for clubbing one night this year

Aye, got a confirm from Strathmore yesterday.
I say we hit a club on the firday night, there's a nice little dive just accross from the Winter Gardens; there for a couple of hours then off to the ruskin?

This is my first eva covention and i hope i am impressed. i was wondering what the range of ages in terms of amounts etc that attend this event. its not ment to offend or seem ageist.

Never been to blackpool i wonder what it looks like in low season

thanks

Age range varies from teens (and younger) to old codgers, lay people to top flight professionals, great folks to irritating eejits and so on. Blackpool is usually cold and windy and is mainly closed in terms of the Summer type of activities although again this year there's a festival of magic and non-magic events during the preceding days leading up to the Convention, the city centre is open and there are plenty of shops (no Woolworths any more unfortunately) and a number of eating houses in the main street. Basic problem is lack of time to see and do all on offer at the Convention, some events clash with others so decisions have to be made about what you're not going to see or do. Beware the Dealer fair - hundreds of the devils just lurking ready to entice you to spend, spend, spend. I usually find that once the After Gala Show Party is under way, I've had enough of magic to last a lifetime but after a couple of days that feeling passes!

Mandrake wrote:Age range varies from teens (and younger) to old codgers, lay people to top flight professionals, great folks to irritating eejits and so on. Blackpool is usually cold and windy and is mainly closed in terms of the Summer type of activities although again this year there's a festival of magic and non-magic events during the preceding days leading up to the Convention, the city centre is open and there are plenty of shops (no Woolworths any more unfortunately) and a number of eating houses in the main street. Basic problem is lack of time to see and do all on offer at the Convention, some events clash with others so decisions have to be made about what you're not going to see or do. Beware the Dealer fair - hundreds of the devils just lurking ready to entice you to spend, spend, spend. I usually find that once the After Gala Show Party is under way, I've had enough of magic to last a lifetime but after a couple of days that feeling passes!

I second all of that

Mandrake wrote: irritating eejits and so on.

yeah, sorry about that.

Mandrake wrote:old codgers

I'm sorry as well.....

Beware also The Ruskin, a veritable den of iniquity, gallons of alcohol, crazy magic, hot sweaty bodies jostling to be served with booze.......

hmmmm .... iniquity ....

UPDATED

There is a female friend of ours staying in the Ruskin also going to the convention. Are there any other women that do magic that go.

Might seem like a stupid question but she asked me to post lol

Thanks

I gotta say this forum is alot nicer than the magic cafe bit more chilled and people are not fighting all the time.

Nice one

magicunlimited wrote:There is a female friend of ours staying in the Ruskin also going to the convention. Are there any other women that do magic that go.

Might seem like a stupid question but she asked me to post lol

I'm sorry, can you say that again, I had something crazy in my ear!

You will find that the Blackpool convention is 99% male, the other percent is made up of (in decreasing order) barmaids, assistants, girlfriends and female magicians.*

*all statistics made up on the spot and do not reflect real percentages, but i could be convinced to argue they are actually correct.