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Just to completely fool everyone, it's not being held in Ipswich!! Instead The Spa Pavillion Felixstowe will be the venue, check http://www.ipswichmagicalsociety.co.uk/ for the line up and details.

Or look at this and work it out for yourselves.....

At last I am in a postion to give more details about this event. So one please remind me why I organise a magic convention?

It is shaping up to be a very special day of magic. Of course what I would love more than anything else is to see a lot of Talk Magic members there so maybe we can have a talk magic reuinion that also coincides with a great day of Magic.

The website is here

Date: Sunday 25th October 2009
Venue: The Spa Pavilion - Felixstowe
Lectures by Marc Oberon, John Archer and Dan Garrett (sponge banana man)
Close up magic with Marc Oberon (this is his award winning Midas Routine - and if you haven't seen it before - you are in for a real treat).

The special event of the day is an exclusive Audience with Wayne Dobson, that will include a lot of footage from him throughout the years, most of which has never been seen. Wayne is very excited about this and we are proud to be hosting his first outing of this very special event. Wayne is a lovely guy - and frankly, for me, one of the icons of magic. If you don't know who he is, then search youtube for wayne dobson and frank bruno (although shame on you for not knowing). Obviously with his MS he doesn't perform so much any more, but he is still just as witty and charming as he ever was.

The evening Gala show includes, Marc Oberon, John Archer, Graham P. Jolley, Alec Powell, Michael J. Fitch, some las vegas style dancing girls and I believe a winner from TV's stars in their eyes (just to add a little variety to the show).

Actually Marc wil be doing a couple of things, as well as his classic stage magic act - he will also be doing his award winning UV show



There is an registration form on the website - or you can pm me for more details.



So what do you think - could this be the venue for the next big Talk Magic Renunion? It is an intimate setting - by the seaside (although you will have to supply your own "Kiss me quick" hats (I believe Iain has several he can hire out)

I can confirm that the IMS Day is a superb event, very friendly and in many ways laid back but well structured and organised. I was going to mention the distinct 'hands-on' feel to it all but then I saw reference to

some las vegas style dancing girls

(fnar, hur, hur) so I think I'd better find a different phrase to use. As an enticement to come along and join in, I personally will treat each and every TalkMagic member there to a drink! (Mandrake checks his wallet for the stash of teabags ready for the old joke, oh how we'll all laugh....)

The venue is very cool in a nice retro sort of way,while the lineup we have organised is very strong! I am really looking forward to see Marc in action and to see John Archer again after seeing him in Blackpool two years ago.

The Wayne Dobson event should be great as will all the lectures...the event packs a wallop for a one-day convention and evening show. Hope to see many of you TM-ers there!

I am not sure if you have seen Magic Week this week, but Michael Fitch, who will be hosting the "Audience With Wayne Dobson" event at the Ipswich Magical Society Convention (25th Oct) has posted a little teaser...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EXDnBvCx4

I will try and be there again this year, was great last time.

i still have this weird avoidance thing for full on magic conventions...dunno why...but i've never been to one...

IAIN wrote:i still have this weird avoidance thing for full on magic conventions...dunno why...but i've never been to one...

There is probably a word for a "fear of conventions", and people that suffer probably attend a convention once a year...

Maybe you should attend one to see if it is an irrational fear? Worse case scenario you hate it and never attend another one. On the other hand, you may enjoy seeing lectures by Jon Archer, Marc Oberon and Dan Garrett (I can just see you now, getting a spark of a new mentalism idea from watching a good multiplying banana routine), but I think the highliht of the day will probably be the audience with Wayne Dobson. Legend gets over used in magic, but in this case, I think it is used correctly.

Also - if you have never seen Graham Jolley perform before - you are in for a real treat during the Evening show.

I have just spoken to Michael J. Fitch who is researching for the Wayne Dobson event. He says he has found some clips that even Wayne doesn't know are out there, and has a few other surprises up his sleeve (which obviously I cant mention) but, it sounds like this will be a real tribute to one of the best Magicians England has ever seen.

This is going to be a very memorable event !

I will be there, on the Magic Attic Stand. So pop over and say hello!

Crikey, only a few days to go....

Mandrake wrote:Crikey, only a few days to go....

I know - exciting isn't it?

Tickets have been selling very well the last week. I assume it is the Wayne Dobson lecture/audience with/tribute thingy - it seems he is still a very popular man in the field of magic (whereas I am just a potato in that self same field).

Either that, or people saw the picture of the dancing girls on magic week this week (I would like to think it is Wayne though).

Talking of the dancing girls, I have to say I had to interview those girls three times!

bananafish wrote:Talking of the dancing girls, I have to say I had to interview those girls three times!

I'm sure you said I could do that....

Another superb day of magic and, dare I say it, the best so far?

Marc Oberon kicked off with his Midas act and it was beautiful, all those props turning to gold, very innovative.

John Archer followed and showed that not only is he a magician, not only can he play Ukulele, not only is he a first rate comic, but he’s also a wiz at maths – very handy for the number square routines!

Dan Garrett’s lecture was much quieter and more gentle than John’s but was equally well worth seeing. The famous sponge bananas made an appearance plus a few new ideas and plenty of down to earth tips and advice for all performers.

After lunch came the event which must have been keenly anticipated for many moons, the Interview with Wayne Dobson. Michael J Fitch had assembled clips and video footage of Wayne right from his very quiet and almost painfully shy first TV appearance right up to his phenomenally successful appearances on The Children’s Variety Show, A Kind of Magic as well as many other clips including a few which Wayne wasn’t aware of and took the mickey well and truly! It started and ended with a standing ovation and there were a few tears being shed as well, such is the respect in which Wayne is held. Part of the event involved Michael performing Wayne’s card routines whilst Wayne commented and described the moves, a very successful merging of the two magicians on stage.

Marc Oberon’s lecture closed the day, again a worthy lecture, very much the same as I’d seen him do before.

The evening show was fantastic! John Archer compared and spent the first 15 minutes teaching the audience about what kind of applause was required – very funny and it did the trick, no merely polite clapping after that! The dancers, 6 girls and 2 chaps, performed two routines which gave the show quite a glitzy setting.

Marc Oberon presented his award winning act and the audience just loved it, graceful unhurried, every reveal and effect given the time and attention it deserved.

On the IMS website, all the performers were given a write up, distilling their careers and previous performances etc. In the case of the next artist, Alec Powell, he was described as ‘Alec Powell is….’ I can finish that phrase with ‘wonderfully insane’! Daft, zany, mad as a bucket of frogs would also be appropriate. A mixture of sight gags, verbal nonsense, bangs, flashes and non-cooperative props which you just have to see to believe.

After the interval Graham P Jolley took to the stage and performed some very baffling mental miracles. He was assisted in his Snooker Ball effect by a rather dashing, sexy and altogether decent chap who had to borrow a jacket off Bananafish to take part. Modesty forbids me to reveal the name of this babe magnet/Adonis….

Michael J Fitch presented his wide ranging act which included his wife being locked in a box, and a delightful routine involving seven year old volunteer Emily who was so charming she deserved all the applause she got. OK it was Bill in Lemon but so very well choreographed and sweetly done.

Final presentation was Marc Oberon’s UV act, Day-Glo props and costumes doing totally impossible things all over the place and just one man involved – again, see it to believe.

The audience loved every minute and the after show comments I heard on the way out were very complimentary indeed.

The venue, The Spa Pavilion, was excellent and I’m told the fish and chips available at lunchtime were excellent, certainly the servings were generous, and each portion of fish seemed to be about 4ft long!

Good to see the Dealers in attendance, Wayne Dobson’s DTrik had plenty on offer including a bargain bag of DVDs, books and a copy of the DVD used in the Interview for a very nominal sum, Magic Attic had special offers, Barrie’s Magic and Albion Magic offered a very wide range of traditional and new items, Magic Books by post had a great selection of the written word and it was especially good to see Magic Tao at their first convention with plenty of exclusives and intriguing items. My bank balance suffered and suffered badly!

The IMS day is certainly going from strength to strength, all the members there who helped are to be congratulated and when you see professional performers in their own right working as stage hands, organisers and other ‘behind the scenes; jobs, you know there’s real dedication involved. Well done folks, here’s to 2010!