September 6, 2010

Quick Blog Entry…

Filed under: News — By Matt Colman

Not made an entry in a lit­tle while — just fin­ished 5 weeks per­form­ing in Spain — had a great time per­form­ing for hol­i­day mak­ers, cur­rently writ­ing a brand new show for 2011…watch this space!

April 17, 2010

The Herald Pub Southport — Live Magic!

Filed under: News — By Matt Colman

Matt Colman Magician Live at the Herald Pub Southport

On the 26th of April it will be a great big birth­day bonanza at the Her­ald pub in South­port! It’s Dan’s birth­day bash and I’ll be there from 5pm onwards per­form­ing my close up magic and table magic, its free entry and its guar­an­teed to be a fan­tas­tic night of great magic, top music and bril­liant atmosphere.

If you ever though Sun­day nights where a lit­tle too relax­ing for your taste — come down to the Her­ald pub on the 26th for a mag­i­cal early evening!

The above photo was taken by Southport’s Mas­ter of the Action shots, Mr Nick Hill from http://www.digitalreflex.co.uk — if you are look­ing for a pho­tog­ra­pher in South­port — Nick is a great guy to deal with and highly rec­om­mended. I popped in the Her­ald the other night for a casual magic per­for­mance — I think it went down a treat!

April 7, 2010

Childrens Entertainer Brighton

Filed under: News — By Matt Colman

My good friend David Tricks has just had his web­site revamped, if you are look­ing for a great children’s enter­tainer in Brighton, Sus­sex or the South of Eng­land you want you visit http://www.magicianbrighton.co.uk tell him Matt Col­man sent you =)

April 1, 2010

Matt Colman to play Harry Potter in the new Harry Potter Movie.

Filed under: News — By Matt Colman

Harry Pot­ter and the Deathly Hal­lows: Part I has been post­poned, the near com­pleted movie has come to stand­still after Hol­ly­wood have decided that Daniel Rad­cliffe is get­ting too old to play Harry Pot­ter, and they want a more youth­ful  and tal­ented magi­cian to play the young wiz­ard. Matt Col­man has suc­cess­fully audi­tioned and been hired for the part of Harry Pot­ter and Dobby  for the remain­ing films. Sources report Rad­cliffe has worked hard on his magic skills to try and change the pro­duc­ers minds, but unfor­tu­nately his skills do not match Matt Col­mans. It is also rumoured Der­ren Brown may pos­si­bly play Ron Weasley in the new film.

Sorry Daniel.

March 16, 2010

Mind Reading at the Fox and Goose Southport

Filed under: Public Shows — Tags: , — By Matt Colman

the fox and goose SouthportI’ll be doing a pub­lic show this month, a part of my mind read­ing show in my home-town of South­port on Fri­day 26th of March, as part of Local Metal Band Sa-Da-Ko’s new video launch.

The event is called the Dark Car­ni­val and promises to be a extrav­a­gant night of Metal Bands, vari­ety acts, fire stunts and much more. It starts at 8pm, entry is a mod­est £2.

The Fox and Goose is on Cable Street in South­port. I will be try­ing out a few new things to pos­si­bly put into the new Mind Read­ing show for 2010 — so should be very interesting!

I would sug­gest bring­ing ear muffs if heavy metal music isn’t your cup of tea!

March 15, 2010

Magic March — The Magician back in Bristol!

Filed under: News — Tags: — By Matt Colman

March is a bril­liant month — although I maybe a lit­tle biased as I do have my birth­day in March! Lots of new things are hap­pen­ing this month, I’ve already started com­pil­ing effects for my sec­ond magic book which will be released later on in the year, I’m work­ing on a DVD for magi­cians and have started writ­ing new stand-up com­edy mate­r­ial for the com­edy clubs.

This week I’m off to Bris­tol, to visit my old haunts. It’s hard to believe its been three years this year that I helped to cre­ate Illu­sions Magic Bar in Clifton. I met so many great peo­ple, and fan­tas­tic magi­cians that I like to try and visit at least once a year for a catch up.

When magi­cians get together and start play­ing around with card tricks and coin tricks it is known as a “Ses­sion” strangely enough. I’m look­ing for­ward to “ses­sion­ing” in Bris­tol, Also my best friend who is liv­ing in Bris­tol at the moment has bought me tick­ets to watch Der­ren Brown for my birth­day, I’ve never had the plea­sure of watch­ing Der­ren Brown live as i’ve always been out of the coun­try per­form­ing or too busy to go catch him on his tour — I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing his lat­est instalment.

February 1, 2010

Preparing for 2010!

Filed under: News — By Matt Colman

All the Christ­mas par­ties are out of the way, and now the new year can now get started prop­erly for myself.

From Feb­ru­ary to April is when I start work­ing on brand new things for 2010, I’ve got some new mind read­ing rou­tines that are being road tested as we speak, and plenty of new close up magic that i’ve been work­ing on.  As I get many repeat book­ings each year, I like to expand the reper­toire so that my reg­u­lar clients never see the same show twice. Many magi­cians will do the same tried and tested things year in and year out, which is great — how­ever as a booker you might think of hir­ing some­body else next time you require a close up magic or table magi­cian — as you feel you’ve already seen what they do. I take pride in exten­sively push­ing the bound­aries of what I do so that every year the mate­r­ial is even stronger than the year before. Some things get retired or re-worked, oth­ers stay where they are, and the new items that get put in truly get bet­ter each year!

I’ve got lots of side projects and con­cepts that are being devel­oped this year — I look for­ward to reveal­ing more details of each through­out on com­ing months…

January 13, 2010

Christmas Party Magician

Filed under: News — Tags: , — By Matt Colman

Wow! what a busy Decem­ber and Jan­u­ary! Decem­ber is always a mag­i­cal month with it being Christ­mas, and it’s always the busiest time of year for magi­cians and other enter­tain­ers with the var­i­ous cor­po­rate Christ­mas par­ties for staff and clients, and of course all the pri­vate Christ­mas par­ties. If I did the miles I did on the road via plane, I think I would of racked up enough air-miles to become a V.I.P Cus­tomer, and would of got one of those plat­inum cards I saw in the excel­lent film “Up in the Air”!

In Jan­u­ary there is also quite a few “late Christ­mas par­ties” Which are always fun — although it still seems strange to go to an Xmas party in January!

Like most years I had many last minute Christ­mas party enquires, and unfor­tu­nately for many I was already booked up.  Like I men­tioned before, as the fes­tive period is so busy — to guar­an­tee a good magi­cian for your event you ide­ally need to book at least two months in advance. I’ve already got quite a few dates booked in for Christ­mas 2010 that where booked in 2009! Ide­ally once you have a venue booked and a rough idea of the approx­i­mate num­ber of guests then it is best to look around for enter­tain­ment — Close up magi­cians and table magi­cians are such a pop­u­lar choice for Xmas that you really don’t want to find all the good magi­cians are booked up, and you are left with the rabble!

This Christ­mas many com­pa­nies and pri­vate book­ers booked my Close Up Magic/ Table magic in con­junc­tion with my Mind Read­ing Show. The Mind-Reading show is always a fan­tas­tic way to round off the evening after the meal, with myself per­form­ing table magic before and around the meal. I also offer fan­tas­tic rates on book­ing the two options together.

I hope you all had a fan­tas­tic Christ­mas and New Year — and if you saw one of my live per­for­mances I hope you thor­oughly enjoyed yourself!

December 5, 2009

Loads of Links

Filed under: News — By Matt Colman

Here is all the new pages this site is adding…

Com­edy Magi­cian | Magic Enter­tainer | Hire a Magi­cian | Cor­po­rate Magic | Cabaret Magi­cian | Matt Cole­man | Magi­cian Eng­land | Links| Mind Reader | Close Up Magi­cian | Mind Read­ing | Magi­cian | Close up magi­cian South­port | Eng­land Magic | Christ­mas party Magi­cian |

Magi­cian for Weddings

Wed­ding Magi­cian | Wed­ding magic | Wed­ding Magic UK | Wed­ding Magi­cian UK |
Wed­ding South­port |

Magi­cian Mersey­side & North­west England

Magi­cian St Helens | Magi­cian Cheshire | Magi­cian Wigan | magi­cian Formby | Magi­cian Burscough | Magi­cian Black­pool| Magi­cian Orm­skirk | Magi­cian Liv­er­pool | Magi­cian Man­ches­ter |Magi­cian Pre­ston | Magi­cian Mersey­side | Magi­cian Lan­cashire | Magi­cian South­port | Magic South­port | Magi­cian South­port | Magi­cian Kendal | Magi­cian Cum­bria | Magi­cian Lake Dis­trict |

Magi­cian Sal­ford

Magic Ser­vices in Sal­ford, close up magi­cian Sal­ford, table magi­cian Sal­ford, wed­ding magi­cian Sal­ford, Cor­po­rate Magi­cian Sal­ford, Trade Show & Exhi­bi­tion Magi­cian Sal­ford |

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Magi­cian Manchester

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Magi­cian Lancaster

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Magi­cian Chester

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Magi­cian Carlisle

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Magi­cian East Midlands

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Magic Ser­vices in Nottingham,

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Magi­cian Leicester

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Magi­cian Derby

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Magi­cian East of England

Magi­cian Nor­folk | Magi­cian Suf­folk | Magi­cian Essex | Magi­cian Hert­ford­shire | Magi­cian Bed­ford­shire |

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Magi­cian Peterborough

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Magi­cian Norwich

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Magi­cian Cambridge

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Magi­cian North East England

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Magi­cian Newcastle

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Magi­cian York­shire & The Humber

December 1, 2009

Warning Wet Paint!

Filed under: News — Tags: , — By Matt Colman

Wel­come!

The site and blog have all been re-designed, I think its all look­ing bet­ter than ever!

I’ve just fin­ished another sea­son in Spain work­ing with the great guys and girls at the House Of Illu­sion in Salou. This year in Spain it has been the hottest one in over ten years! It was scorch­ing almost every­day. There was some top tal­ent at the House Of Illu­sion this year includ­ing my friend, the won­der­ful Matthew Wright, his bril­liant com­edy magic act with his pup­pet Eugene is always a treat for the crowds. The audi­ences this year at the House Of Illu­sion have been incred­i­ble to per­form to, and I’ve had some fan­tas­tic feed­back. One of the high­lights of this sea­son was when myself and the owner of the House Of Illu­sion, my good friend Rod­ney James Piper trav­eled up to Reus (A lovely tra­di­tional Span­ish town near Barcelona) to see one of our idols of magic per­form his one man show. His name is René Lavand, hail­ing from Argentina — you may not be famil­iar with his name, but if I said the one armed magi­cian, and men­tioned his “catch­phrase” which has been made famous through his many per­for­mances on TV Magic Shows -  “Red, Black, Red, Black, Red, Black — IT CAN’T BE DONE ANY SLOWER”  you may know who I am talk­ing about! Rene does some of the most tech­ni­cal card magic — made even only infi­nitely more impos­si­ble by the fact he only has one hand to do it with. Even though the show was spo­ken entirely in Span­ish (and I only speak a lit­tle) it was an absolute plea­sure to watch, and he truly deserved the stand­ing ova­tion at the end.

René Lavand is con­sid­ered a leg­end in the magic world,  but also by peo­ple from his home coun­try and the peo­ple of Spain. After the show he came out to many fans like a rock star, peo­ple of all ages wanted his auto­graph and a pic­ture with him. Rod­ney, myself and fel­low magi­cian Friends of ours from Reus went out with René for a nice tra­di­tional Span­ish meal. It was truly an honor. You can see a pic­ture of the House Of Illu­sion team with René Lavand on my media page.

Unfor­tu­nately I won’t be return­ing back to Spain next year, as I have so many projects lined up for 2010 in Eng­land. If you are vis­it­ing the House Of Illu­sion in 2010, the show keeps get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter every year so you will not be dis­ap­pointed. I’ll keep you posted! Its going to be an excit­ing year.

Here is a video of Mr Lavand per­form­ing his great card magic from the World Magic Awards: