Some of Some of the Lectures...

Bill Malone quickly proved what a consummate entertainer he is in his lecture.

Bill showed a “standard” type sponge ball routine and then explained absolutely everything. By everything I mean all the thoughts and reasons behind each motion and line and such like. To the casual observer he was showing a routine that a large percentage of the audience would already have a version of in their repertoire. On closer examination he was giving a lesson in the performance of magic learnt from thousands upon thousands of performances. I always enjoy watching work of this calibre.

It is stating the obvious that different people want different things from attending lectures. If you are the type who wants to learn exactly how certain card effects are done and then want to buy the necessary stuff then Boris Wild from France is your man.

Frankly I don’t really want to learn any more tricks and therefore the complete, total and often repeated explanations of the (strong) card effects offered up by Boris here did nothing for me...

…but at the opposite end of my own “Lecture Spectrum” was David Williamson’s lecture.

As Noel Britten said, David’s lecture is a “complete package.” In it is everything one could ever want from a lecture, great entertainment, flawlessly smooth sleight of hand and handling and really strong magic. Performing several of his now classic effects he explained the method together with the thinking behind it and while doing so often added in an anecdote to help explain a point. Totally superb…