November 3rd, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
Just received a nice pic of me (from jameshaydockphotography.com) doing the legendary trick – Bottle Through Table. It was taken at a wedding that I was at over the weekend. Lots of people and good fun. Father of the Bride Roger just emailed some nice words as well.
Alan,
Just a brief note to say thank you very much indeed for entertaining all our guests at the wedding reception on Saturday. Everyone said how wonderful you were and we were all totally baffled and amazed by your magic - it really helped to make the day extra special for us all. We will certainly pass on your details and recommend you if anyone we know is looking for something similar for a future event. Roger and Margaret
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October 21st, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
For dedicated followers of this site (mainly other magicians who often pinch stuff off me – you know who you are!) – I’ve added some new pictures. Have a look around and you’ll see 3 or 4 new pictures on the main pages. This one is my favourites though
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October 20th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
It’s always nice for the ego when people email, after they have paid you, saying that they thought you were great. Here is a couple from this weekend -
“Hi Alan, everyone including myself and Rob thought you was fabulous. Am still checking my ring now to make sure it is mine ha ha. We didn’t mention to anyone that you were coming so it was a nice touch to the night. I would like to take this opportunity to say a big big thank you for being so entertaining and professional on the night…am so pleased we asked you to join us on this special occasion. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you in the future and will do so. Many thanks” Jackie, 50th Birthday Party, Portrait House, Hoylake, Liverpool
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“Was a fantastic event and everyone was raving about you – you certainly made a great finish to our evening (especially getting Tom to have a bag on his head!) Im collating photos as we speak and I will of course forward these to you! I will be producing a news letter to go out to our attendees early next week and I will ensure that your details are included. Thanks again for a wonderful show” Paula Cooper, Airsys – Warwick Conference Centre
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October 19th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
Theft is ripe in the magic world. I mean the theft of routines and ideas – not pinching each others playing cards. The problem with doing someone elses routines are that people who see magicians regularly think that we are all the same – we all do the same tricks, we all say the same things etc. Unfortunately, a lot of the time some of that is true.
I’m very passionate about doing original material that is unique to me – so thought I’d post this link to expose these ‘coincidences’ http://www.twinsmagicians.com/
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September 11th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
I get asked to do a lot of charity events and unfortunately I can’t do them all – I say unfortunately, it’s unfortunate that I don’t want to do them. I’m full time and I have to make a living and most charity events are on evenings. I get endless emails asking if I can just spend ‘a few hours’ of my time to do my stuff. Well, a few hours is actually a full evening – most events start between 7pm-8pm so it’s almost impossible to get to another event. If I did all the ones I get asked for – they’d have to set up a new charity for a starving magician.
However, I’ve just come back from a great event from Variety Club of Great Britain. To coincide with 9/11 (today) a load of celebs and other entertainers went to the BGC in London and supported a whole host of charities from the Trade floor. Lots of shouting, energy and sweating – and that was just me.
Jonathan Ross, Alex Ferguson, Donal Macintyre, Anneka Rice, Carol Vorderman, Kate Adie, Natalie Cassidy, some people from The Apprentice and a whole host of other people I didn’t know were there. It was great fun – and on Friday morning so it didn’t interfere with anything else. They raised around £90,000 last year and hope to do better this year.
I’ll try and get some pics up soon.
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September 9th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
Hi Alan,
I would like to thank you for your performance on Saturday night; it was one of the highlights of the whole day and certainly gave everyone something to talk about.
However it did take some people 20 minutes to finish inspecting the tables to find out what happened to that bottle!!
So once again a big thank from myself and Alison for adding a very special and memorable 2 hours to our day.
Many thanks
Marc and Alison Hatfield
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September 6th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
Many people ask me if I’ve got any videos online. Well, the answer is I haven’t really. Only a short clip from a show I did at the Edinburgh Festival – but it doesn’t show me busting out any hardcore, sleight of hand type magic that I’d perform at a wedding for instance.
However, I have just filmed an Internet only advert for a large company – so as soon as that comes available, you’ll be the first to know.
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September 6th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
Been a great weekend with 2 weddings. First one in York for Debbie and John – great people and really good fun. Debbie just emailed this “Thank you so much for providing entertainment for our guests on Friday, the feedback has been excellent. Can’t even see how you do your tricks on the video footage.”
The 2nd one was in Bedford for Marc and Allison – again, really good fun performing at the tables, between courses of the Wedding Breakfast (my personal favourite time to perform).
If only all jobs could be like this
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January 8th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
I’ve realised now I’m rubbish at keeping a blog. Mainly because I don’t think much of what I do is interesting enough to put on the internet. But for the sake of it – I’m going to try and update this at least more regularly than the current 6 month gap I seemed to have given myself since the last one.
July looks like a busy month – I’m in Chester, Gloucester and Birmingham this week and then back up north next week with Skipton, Ilkley and Castleford. I’ll try to remember to report back on interesting happenings at the events.
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January 8th, 2009 by
Alan Hudson
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