yep, that went well.

The wedding gig last night was AMAZING! I had a good time my partner in magic had a good time and the audience apparently had a fantastic time. EVerything went very smoothly but I came away with some useful information to smooth things more.

Do as I do - No good when standi9ng. If I prepped a deck to kick off with Do as I do then I need another deck good to go for a set of standing tricks. I need to work on two versions of each routine, one standing, one sitting.

Wee Wee Mentalist- EVERYONE loves the Wee Wee Mentalist! Need to keep a good location for where he can hide until needed.

Cromancay- All handling of this effect were very well received

Darkside-This is it- again, loved by all BUT do not perform on the very drunk

invisible deck _ scary good

The Disappearance- again very well received. HOWEVER it would be nice if I could have a second version prepeed and good to go. Time to start playing with a lazer printer.

Ambitouse Card- n effect I've ignored f late. Big mistake, this was incredibly well loved and seen as a real feat.

I think all in all I was overly worried about not having enough material for each routine. what I have is enough in length, now I need to weed out the weaker routines and replace them with stronger effects. This crowd cared less for mentalism and were more into classic slight of hand so I'm glad I prepperd up for both in mind. I didn't get the classic "show us something that's not card magic" BUT need to add some none card work into the repertoire. Eugene Burger's way of handling potential hecklers worked a storm(Secrets and Mysteries of the Close Up Entertainer). Don't see them as the enemy. Se them as bubbly people who want to be the centre of attention for a little bit and just let them, respond with grace and civility and humour them., Do this from the very very start and actual heckling/trouble doesn't even begin to happen. I took one VERY drunk guy and showed him some gambling magic, explaining how it worked. For this I used "Big Deal" where you openly show yourself dealing from the bottom for one hand, and then deal from the top the second time, the second time having stacked the deck gives you a far better hand. Because he was "Watching and learning" he wasn't acting up at all, not trying to catch me out by insisting the cut the deck every second. He thought he was learning a magic trick to scam friends with instead of participating in a bigger magic trick that left him baffled.

In conclusion. Awesome time. MY love of magic has never waned a bit of late I was begging to doubt my chances of making a living from it (and hence lapsed in the study of the business side of magic) this has now changed :) as I said before, if in doubt,t suck t up and get a gig, I think it's Kill or cure. Even if all bar one group hated me the reaction of one positive would be enough to make me study and practice to make things work, a positive reaction is THAT powerful. And I had a LOT of them last night so I don't think I'll stop smiling any time soon.