About

Hi, my name’s Andrew Edmonds and I’m a professional party entertainer specialising in magic and mind reading for mature audiences.

Born in Gray, Essex in 1972, I had little interest in magic as a child though I did enjoy the David Copperfield TV specials that were usually aired over the Xmas and Easter holidays.

In 1996, when I was 22, I managed to acquire two tickets to see David Copperfield at the Hammermith Odeon in London. I’d been a fan of DC throughout my childhood and was always fascinated by his illusions, his showmanship and the apparent ease at which he connected with his audience.

That one incredible show sparked my interest in magic and it was only days later that I was at Davernports magic shop in charing cross buying a whole load of tricks – and thus it began.

It was a few years before the obsession with buying self-working tricks (tricks that are self contained and require little skill) began to subside and I started to concentrate more on pure sleight of hand, mainly card magic. This developed to a point where in 2000 I got my first gig as a “party magician” at a public house near where I worked at the time in Old Street. That went very well and got me another gig as a “corporate magician”, this time PAID!! Paid for doing magic??? Now I was hooked.

The gigs grew fast through word of mouth and in the summer of 2001 I found myself providing wedding entertainment on a frequent basis throughout the South-East. When my website launched, the gigs increased, and after a year or so of performing traditional magic entertainment, I found myself being drawn into the field of mentalism (magic of the mind) and I begun studying more and more the psychology behind peoples bahaviour and what can be achieved through using suggestion as a tool to enhance a trick.

This passion grew, and the popularity of mentalism amongst the public also rose with the emergence of Derren Brown on British TV.

By providing a mixture of visual magic and mind tricks, my repertoire became very versatile and I could basically work with any group, gauging what I felt would be appropriate to them (some people simply don’t like card tricks, some daren’t have their minds read, but rarely do people dislike both)

In 2005, I began writing a cabaret show titled ‘MIND GAMES’ which I debuted in 2006 and performed at parties, weddings and corporate functions mainly around London and the SouthEast during 2007 with wonderful reviews. I love closeup magic/mentalism, but being in front of 100 or so people and keeping them engaged for 45 minutes is a huge buzz, aswell as very hard work.

All in all, I love my work and hope to continue doing it for a very long time.

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