Don Simpson Lecture - 1 Feb 2007

13 April 2007

This lecture played to a packed house, with members of both the Southdown?s Magicians and ACES in attendance. Good to see them all.

Don explained that he had been in the business for over thirty years mainly working in Restaurant Magic. He had some views on how to approach a table but his best tip was to adapt some adult tricks for children, approach the table and entertain the kids first and then the adults would follow.

He then showed an impressive array of tricks including 'Willy the worm' (Professors Nightmare), Chinese Wind chimes, Misers Dream, Torn and restored Napkin (which I noticed went down particularly well with the audience) Spoon Bending and Note in Beer Mat. All were quite obviously from his working repertoire. All these effects were shown and then briefly explained and the first half overran with his enthusiastic explanations!!

Back to the to the second half where we were shown his version of Ring on Rope (something to do with Elephants Wedding rings as I remember!), a quite stylish. Two in the hand, One in the pocket with diamonds (ice cubes). A Sponge ball and purse frame routine was then demonstrated together with Chinese Sticks, 3 Card Tricks and a Coin Matrix.

A very packed evening of Magic - enjoyed by all.

Andy Hart

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