The Mark Leveridge Magic Podcast

The Mark Leveridge Magic Podcast

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The Mark Leveridge Magic Podcast episodes

  • The Mark Leveridge November 2018 Podcast

    Dark nights are brightened by the November Podcast contents which feature the following topics:

    • The CCC rebrands as the OCCC but the meeting provides the same great stimulus as always
  • online booking agencies make for lazy enquiries and encourage potentially unfair price comparisons
  • does it matter that explanations of many of our tricks are openly available on YouTube?
  • magicians sometimes get too hung up on moves and procedure and can easily forget what is far more important
  • online video instructions provide both the best and the worst type of trick explanation
  • do you feel a bit uncomfortable performing for people who know you very well, such as family and friends? I look at why this might be
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge October 2018 Podcast

    An OctoberFest of magic opinion and comment featuring the following topics:

    • I reflect that it's not easy as a self employed business person to clear the desks before going on holiday
  • Wittus Witt asks whether close up magic really has any place at modern large conventions
  • creativity is all about making choices, but this can present you with a dilemma
  • Shin Lim brings a theatrical importance to his visual close up miracles in America's Got Talent
  • how much do you value magical advice?
  • cancellation clauses in performance contracts can cause more problems than they solve
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge September 2018 Podcast

    The September Podcast will entertain you and get you thinking with the following topics:

    • I get the opportunity to experience Noel Britten's Bizarre Bath Comedy Walk, and it's awesome!
  • what are the best and worst parts of being a magician?
  • the show format that helped me to gain invaluable performing experience in the early days of my magic career
  • I discuss whether social media ever really delivers in terms of creating actual bookings or whether we are simply deluding ourselves
  • the importance of how we respond to show enquiries is illustrated when my wife and I try to book some entertainment for our own party
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge August 2018 Podcast

    The summery August Podcast contains the following topics:

    • Why on earth do so many of us get involved in magic in the first place? I suggest a whole load of reasons why we might get involved in the art
  • Duncan Trillo launches an interesting new initiative in which he invites fans of his MagicWeek website to become a MagicWeek Backer
  • the football World Cup is over, but maybe there are some lessons to be learned about how not to jump on a bandwagon when it comes to publicity
  • I finally release the 4th volume of my popular card magic series of E-Books
  • there are many things to cope with as a table hopping magician, and none of them are anything to do with the magic itself
  • download instructions are now all pervasive, a situation that has almost sneaked up on us all
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge July 2018 Podcast

    A varied selection of topics this month looks like this:

    • Richy Roy suggests that most of us are charging far too little for our shows and I discuss whether he is right or not
  • I prove that no matter how long you have been in the magic business, there can still be things which happen to you which have never happened before
  • "Strolling magic is not an art, it's a service" says Paul Brook - but is he correct?
  • news of a new MLM release that is a terrific, practical version of a classic plot
  • the mobile phone has changed the way spectators want to experience our magic
  • why do lay people still fall back on cliched explanations for the magic that we do?
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge June 2018 Podcast

    The early summer 2018 podcast has the following topics:

    • I reflect on my recent US lecture tour which included some dodgy weather and a traffic violation!
  • talking of lectures, I consider what magicians expect to get from a lecture that they attend
  • magical fame and fortune may not always be all it is cracked up to be
  • the Mark Leveridge Magic website is being re-designed and I give you some early teaser information about what it might be like when it launches later in the year
  • I reflect on why it can be difficult sometimes to entertain the people who have actually booked you
  • why offering advice to an inexperienced magician may not be the best thing to do
  • why does magic seem to attract such high levels of incompetence!?
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge May 2018 Podcast

    Podcast Gold

    Here are six of my favourite Podcast articles which I have collected together from Podcasts released over the last year. I hope you enjoy hearing them again, or if you missed them, for the first time!

    • Fee negotiation - do you allow your rates to be a subject of discussion with a potential booker?
  • I offer a theory about when you should hand write a prediction and when it is OK to have it pre-printed
  • I explain why I think going back to tables more than once is not a good idea
  • comedy is as much about consistently selecting appropriate lines to suit our performing personality as it is about the lines themselves
  • your credibility as a magician is important for potential bookers, so here's a way to ensure you get some
  • card to wallet - is it better to go down the palm-and-load route, or are the no-palm versions just as valid?
    • 28 min
  • The Mark Leveridge April 2018 Podcast

    The April edition of Mark Leveridge's magical musings covers the following:

    • Richard Kaufman has a 'pop' at Magicseen
  • your magic competitors may actually be your allies
  • hyphens and underscores make difficult to decipher email addresses even worse
  • GDPR is on its way, but will it matter to us magicians?
  • a spectator accurately observes and gives a fascinating insight into the processes that we strolling magicians go through when we entertain at tables
  • if you appear to be an expert at what you do, you are more likely to get the show enquiry/booking
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge March 2018 Podcast

    The March miscellany of magic comments offers you....

    • Walking round the dealers at Blackpool reveals that many of the stands and much of the product packaging is so much more professional than it used to be
  • what makes for the best type of subject for a major headline prediction?
  • The Sacred Riana - proving on Asia's Got Talent that presentation will always elevate magic irrespective of how strong the magic itself may be
  • the world is awash with information and if you want to be heard you need to play the long game with your publicity
  • you can find new magic for your act by looking outside the normal magic categories that you might consider
  • how do you evaluate the value of a marketed trick?
  • the goalposts seem to have moved for children's entertainers
    • 31 min
  • The Mark Leveridge February 2018 Podcast

    This is what the February edition has in store for you

    • I attended The Session last month and I offer my observations about the annual close up convention organised by Joshua Jay and Andi Gladwin
  • "If someone asks you to perform, you are not obliged to do so" - I explain why I agree with this assertion from Roberto Giobbi
  • Mike Close reveals how to take the sting out of strong magic to make it more acceptable to lay people
  • here's an important piece of advice that could make sure you get more enquiries from your website
  • listen to a Mark's Monthly Message Audio File on Developing A Performing Personality
  • Facebook gives you even less opportunity to get your message across via your posts
    • 31 min

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Monthly podcast featuring Mark Leveridge's observations and opinions on the magic world