This week has been another challenging week in the Arkane house of wonder for many reasons - particularly because I had a 48 hour deadline - which I managed to complete. This particular deadline began with an idea I said out loud at the start of this year which became

It is so important to know what you want to say when you are communicating to others. Particularly when you are performing to an audience. Whether that be on stage, virtually, across radio or even in an email to a customer. What we say about ourselves to others and the

All performers have to face that dreaded feeling we get just before plunging ourselves into the deep end that is, walking out in front of an audience to put on a show. We all experience and react to this excitement in different ways. Some pace, some go over their scripts.

One of the best lessons I ever learnt about performing from an expert is that we must perform. I know this is a very strange sentence but since isolation has hit the world of magic, our online presence as an industry has exploded! This is wonderful for us magicians however,

Greetings Arkane blog followers. I am happy to report that after two full weeks of illness I am finally on the mend! This weeks blog title is one of my favourite songs of all time. I wish that this blog post could be all about the man, the legend and

This week has been a tough ole week for me. Tummy pain, headaches, vomiting and delirium followed by a doctor trip and two trips to the hospital. It would only happen to me during a pandemic! Whilst that all was happening I managed to perform a magic workshop and two

In January this year I had very little work on, it was an incredibly slow start to the year. Meaning that I was stuck at home in my bedroom. I kind of got into a bit of a bad space and really hated my room and the fact I was

We all have had to come to terms with this anomaly that entered our world. I'm talking about COVID-19 a.k.a Coronavirus. When lockdown began I didn't want to believe what was actually happening. All my bookings were immediately cancelled. (About 3,000 pounds in total). The prospect of any future ones

As I enter my forth week of isolation in my bunker a.k.a my bedroom, I'm beginning to feel slightly askew. I'm not sleeping or eating properly and I feel really all over the place. Kind of like Alice when she made it to Wonderland. The one thing that has truly

Inspiration is everywhere not just in magic. When I was studying my degree in drama I was given the opportunity to stage manage a venue at the Belfast Festival, this venue was the Elmwood Hall. Primarily a music venue, the acts that generally were staged here in the festival were

I am a terrible sleeper. I kind of always have been. Since becoming a Magician most of my best ideas spring to mind in the middle of the night. There is a scientific reason for this. As humans, we’re regulated by circadian rhythms, these are physical and mental changes that take

When the world feels like it has fallen apart and no one knows what to do for the best (God this sounds like song lyrics - perhaps I've been influenced by reading Rob Zabrecky's book Strange Cures this week). In society there's a real "them" "me" and "us" attitude naturally