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Just to let you know that there is a large centre page plus one article all about Derren Brown in this weeks 'Stage' paper. It makes excellant reading and is a bargain at only £1:20 from all good stockists!!!

I've noticed that our local Smiths has a stand with The Stage on when I buy my New Scientist. I think I'll be buying a copy tomorrow to read over a pub lunch.

His comments are interesting:

"If you're a magician doing an after-dinner show in a pub and no one knows who you are and you say you're a psychic, it's not really a big deal. But, if a lot of people know who you are and you're saying 'Yes, I'm genuinely psychic' then you are responsible for people changing their beliefs, which I find quite ugly."

Perhaps this is a hint at the new, more serious direction he's supposed to take with the next book.

Also, he says playing theatres on a saturday night is a nightmare: "You get people getting up and going to the loo and just chatting about how they think it's done. It's kind of rude and a bit exhausting. It's like they're watching TV."

There will be a new series after this tour, and of course the "serious" book on belief out before Xmas.