Matt Colman – Magician at

Vincent Hotel, Southport 2011

I recently performed my close up magic at Southport’s luxurious Vincent hotel for a 30th Birthday party, as you will see in the following pictures the guests are being delightfully deceived, wowed and bamboozled, these pictures really are worth a thousand words.

As you can tell from the photographs, the magic went down a storm and was enjoyed by all the guests. These pictures where taken by Southport based photography company Imageroom studios please see http://www.imageroom.biz/. Mal and the team at Imageroom are some of the finest photographers I’ve ever worked with, because those moments of pure astonishment, where the body and mind cannot explain what it has just seen, responds to this with awe, shock, pleasure, delight, laughing and clapping; and these are the most vital moments of any magic performance, during the close up magic at the vincent that night, Imageroom studios perfectly captured the guests reactions. That is, by no means an easy feat! Mal has a beautiful eagle eye for detail that is shown in the above photographs. I can’t recommend the Southport based photographers Imageroom studios enough, not only do they do photography for parties and other special events they also do wedding photography, portraits and much more, head over to their website to find out more, and tell them Matt Colman sent you.

I’ve just completed five days of performing at the Henley Festival, entertaining hundreds and hundreds of wonderful people, including celebrities, millionaires and top CEOs; my performances have been wrote up by local and national papers including the Daily Express.

The events headlining acts were, Tom Jones,  Jools Holland, Alexandra Burke and others. I was based on the Water Pavilion, a boat/bar showcasing the exquisite cocktails made from Patrón Spirits, and upstairs, a tapas restaurant where you could sample Spanish dishes from La Bodega. Whilst guests enjoyed cocktails, champagne and tapas they where treated to my close up magic, which went down extremely well; as did the food and drink!  The feedback has been terrific and i’ve never got through so many business cards in such a short amount of time!

A massive thank you to instantpix.co.uk for providing the wonderful photographs. I highly recommend the instantpix photo company for fantastic photos and service.

Over the years i’ve done quite a few close-up magic / table magic and mind reading performances for Liverpool University, last night I did the annual summer ball for the Liverpool Veterinary University Society (LUVS). It’s always a pleasure, the guests and students are both appreciative and and great fun to work with. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year, and the reception was held in the gardens of Chester’s Queen Hotel, it was the first outside reception i’ve done this year, and with the weather warming up hopefully the first of many. Once again thank you for inviting me to another great event, and look forward to doing more events with Liverpool University in the future.

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!

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!

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…