Last night I was booked to entertain at the London Marriot, County Hall for the 60th anniversary of Cadogan Hollidays. As part of the celebrations one lucky lady won a Diamond! The slightly less fortunate had to make do with me pushing borrowed coins into a solid glass bottle and other feats of immposibilia. Top London based Photographer Robert Guy Baalham was there to capture the moment, nice one Rob!

I had the pleasure of entertaining a Greek Wedding a few weekends back at Loudwater Farm Twas a really nice event with fantastic food, up for it guests and courtesy of top photographer Tony Russell I got these nice shots of me performing for the Bride.

Thanks Tony and congratulations to Nicky Artemi, also for wearing the coolest matching shades I've seen a bride wear.

Hello, to anyone that reads my blog !

It's been a while since I last blogged so what's been going on......Well, I've redone my sites, I've been wanting to do these for a while but was waiting for some major updates to the software I use so they're finally all done.

The next project will be for me to re-do my magicians showreel.

Magic wise things have been good, can't say I've felt the economic downturn too badly although February was pretty lean. I'm now well and truly in the flow of Wedding Magician season which means a lot of Weddings, wedding cake, tricks for the kiddies and enjoying the great British outdoors.

More photo's below of me grinning inanely, I must love my job! These were various different events I've worked my way round over the summer period, Essex, Brighton and Surrey were the locations. Thanks to Rachel and Andrew (Bride & Groom below) for the kind words.

“Dear Adam, Just wanted to say how much our guests enjoyed your magic show at our wedding on Saturday afternoon. Many of them were talking about it all weekend and trying to work out how you did your tricks - especially the card in the wallet one! It was nice to meet you and just a shame that all the photographing meant Rachel and I didn't get to see more of your magic! Thanks for contributing to what was a great day for us and all the best for the future.” Andrew and Rachel

 

As we enter the latter part of British summer time enquires for the festive season seem to snowball. If you've an interest in booking a Magician for The Office Christmas party please enquire now to secure availability.

A blonde, a brunette, a ginger haired Magician and a fake Christmas tree. It can only mean one thing, Christmas time Magic is here complete with funky canapes, free booze, goodie bags and speeches about the credit crunch. Although only four days into December I ve done 5 gigs and the photos below are from last nights event, a Christmas party for Harvey Nash. Was a great bash in a private marquee held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea gardens. Big thanks to Luke Potter the photographer who took these cool shots.

A While ago I was approached by Time Out to have a little article written about me and the life of a London based Magician

Close-up magician Adam Kiesner

Adam Keisner, 32, is a close-up magician and sleight-of-hand artist. He’s an associate member of the Inner Magic Circle with a Silver Star. ‘I got into magic through a course I saw advertised at the City Lit 12 years ago – a beginner’s guide to magic. Though I’d always had an interest in magic as a child and had a Paul Daniels magic kit, my real interest in magic was generated from wanting to know how it worked. I used to watch it on TV and think: How is that possible?’ So what makes a man who had a ‘proper job’ (in TV post-production) jack it all in for the strange world of magic? ‘It’s fun!’ he says. ‘Intrinsically there’s something about magic that’s very clever. Why it works and why people allow themselves to get sucked into it. Human nature has evolved in such a way that it’s easy to manipulate people, and magicians do it in a way that’s honest. Someone books me to come to their do, they’re expecting me to deceive them – and deceive them well. Quite a weird psychology. There’s no profession in the world quite like it.’ Adam Keisner (07968 810007/www.keisner.com). The Magic Circle, Centre for the Magic Arts, 12 Stephenson Way, NW1 (020 7387 2222/www.themagiccircle. co.uk) Euston tube/rail. For ‘Meet The Magic Circle’ enquiries call 01322 221592. City Lit, Keeley St, WC2 (020 7831 7831/www.citylit.ac.uk) Holborn tube. The next four-week Magic for Performance course, suitable for beginners, starts October 7.

More useless ramblings from me soon.

In the mean time a couple of great photos courtesy of Matt Reeves at The Reportage Wedding Company taken whilst performing Close-Up Magic at the Wedding of Kate Palmer who is now Kate Shabbir. Congratulations Kate and thanks for the wonderful reference below.

Dear Adam,
I just wanted to drop you a line to say thank you so much for the close up magic you performed at our wedding.  It was superb and the guests all loved it - they weren't expecting it at all.
Many thanks once again - I would certainly recommend you to anyone planning a party or wedding. 
Best wishes
Kate Shabbir

The last couple of months have been crazy so I’ ve just returned from a well deserved rest in Riccone on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was absolutely stunning. I am straight back into Magician mode with a load of Close-Up Magic performances in and around the London area.

I’ll write up some more blurb soon but please feel free to view a recent performance I did for the The Telegraph online.

Click the image below and wait for the advert to play first. LINK REMOVED.




Also a big thanks to Blaze an excellent photographer at www.studio4u.co.uk who managed to get some great shots of me performing Close-Up Magic at a Wedding in Black heath, photo’s below.




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Happy new year to anyone that actually reads this, are you there?

You know the main reason a Magician writes a blog, is that having a beefy blog on your site can increase your Google rankings based upon relevant searches. But that's not my motive , I simply love to tell all, so here goes....

January can be dead time for us Magicians and at the beginning of Jan I had 4 gigs booked which is pretty lean. By the end of Jan I'd done 9 gigs, one of which, was a fly by gig in Kuwait so all in all I ticked over quite nicely.

Gigs of notability; Kuwait was great, see how that rhymes. No really it was, although only in the country for 24 hours I had a great experience and having done a lot of work in Dubai it was interesting to see a more traditional side to Arabic culture, well sort of. Big thanks to Anwar for all your hospitality.

Also, thanks to Sue Hill recruitment especially for the lovely food, was a great event although the smallest venue I ve ever worked in. Mercedes in Wimbledon, thanks again for a fun time in the very cool Cannizaro House, nice and local to me.

One last note of mention to the beautiful location in East Sussex that is Ashdown Park, I seem to do more and more work there every year. It really is a wonderful venue for any event with so much history and really diligent staff, thanks to all there!

I ll be shooting a series (15) of Internet Virals (short video clips) for Virgin Mobile next week. These will all be up on my Video page with-in the next few months and should look super duper. It's always fun doing something different in my line of work and TV/Internet produced footage usually always look good so please revisit in a few weeks to see the fruits of my toil.

Be well. Adam

Christmas time is a weird time of year for us Magi. It's bit like having a proper job and getting a bonus at the end of year. Generally Magicians work a lot more in the festive season and by the end of December we'll of earned our bonus.. The down side is, that's when being a Magician becomes a proper job, every day performing, sometimes three shows a day is really exhausting, well it is for me.

Tonight I performed for a well known bank, it was their Xmas work do. I am not too fond of Office Christmas parties purely because most people get totally pissed before the starters are away and some guy, usually from accounts thinks it's hilarious to say 'make my wife disappear,' all night..... To be fair this company were very nice and even gave a Christmas goodie bag to take home.

I still have some dates available in December, about four I think but please remember if I am already booked I can always advise on hiring a reputable Close-Up Magician.

Bye for now.

This first blog represents the start of this entire new web-site magicians-london.com. I've designed and built it my self hence the design value may feel poor but hopefully navigating it should feel fine. My reason for this DIY job is I wanted to have total control over my updates and general output. Usually I rely on a web guy to make updates at £50 per time and lately I just find myself wanting to update things quite frequently, so here we are.

The site has been totally built in a very cool application called Rapid Weaver and I can highly recommend it as an extremely powerful web creation tool, it's a Mac only title so all you PC users out there cannot use it. I've used nothing more than a 13 inch Mac book running an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2 Ghz.

If you'd like to see a more professional site of mine then whiz over to keisner.com and see what Ade at monster-creations can do. He's a proper, full time graphic and web-site designer and a top bloke too.


Xmas kicks off soon which will be manic.

Bye for now.

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