We Love Magic!

Welcome to We-Love-Magic.co.uk, a celebration of magic in all its forms. We hope you enjoy your visit.

This is a site for people who have recently decided they want to become magicians and for lay people who love magic. In other words, it’s not for experienced, established magicians (though, of course, you are very welcome to have a look and to contact me with any suggestions you may have).

If you are just embarking on a career in magic, you'll find lots of useful advice and suggestions for honing your act and getting booked.

If you want to see a magic show, you'll find recommendations and reviews.

If you're looking for magic tricks, books to teach you magic, novels about magic and magicians, a magician to hire for your party, wedding or other event, or just for general information about magic, magicians and what's going on, you'll find it all here on We Love Magic.

Magic shows

Buxton Festival Fringe

Several magical events are taking place at the Buxton Festival Fringe this year:

Piff the Magic Dragon

As you know, Piff is a rather grumpy dragon, created by John van der Put. Piff is a great comedy character - and worth seeing for that reason alone - but he also does fantastic, high-end magic, of the sort you would expect to pay much more to experience.

Piff will be giving three performances of his new show Pifftacular at the Buxton Festival Fringe in July, before going on to Edinburgh.

The dates are:
Wednesday 22nd July, 5.30-6.20pm
Thursday 23rd July, 5.30-6.20pm
Friday 24th July, 4-4.50pm.

If you live anywhere near Buxton, do come along. I'll be there on the Thursday.

You can find out more about Piff on his website www.piffthemagicdragon.com. You can find out more about Piff's creator by reading my interview with John van der Put.

Love and Other Magic Tricks

In another incarnation, John van der Put will be appearing in a production that is part love story, part magic show. This is with his theatre company standnotamazed.

The dates are:
Wednesday 22nd July, 9.30-10.30pm
Thursday 23rd July, 9.30-10.30pm
Friday 24th July, 8-9pm
Saturday 25th July, 11pm-midnight.

An evening of close-up magic

The High Peak Magic Society is organising a close-up extravaganza for the evening of Thursday 23rd July. Hours of top-quality close-up magic! Again, see the Buxton Festival Fringe website for more details.

Richard Leigh

Richard Leigh's magic shows continue to sell out. Click on the link to read reviews of the shows I've seen.

I went to The Magic Cavern show again on 24th May and it was marvellous, as usual, and still evolving - there were one or two tweaks since my last visit that have improved it even further. Richard is a clever and an interesting man and I highly recommend all his shows. If you are or are going to be in London, make sure you take in one of Richard's productions. You can see videos and buy tickets online through his website: www.falseimpressions.co.uk.

You can now finally read my interview with Richard Leigh. Sorry for the delay in getting it online.