John Lovick
John did an excellent set to open the close up gala show. Transforming money from spectators in larger denominations, before transforming to blank sheets. A lovely woes prediction effect was given by collecting words from the audience, based around the “fact” that one of the audience members was an ex girlfriend, that departed on bad terms, John got some woderful comedy before the words were revealed in a break up love poem in an envelope.
John also tried his hand at an effect from Magic magazine by getting a specator to read the instructions out aloud. The effect was a very clever ring vanish, the ring apparently found in the ring. Of being the wrong ring. A second ring borrowed from another audience memer turned out in fact to be the original ring, and yw ring in re box being the second ring, very clever and magical

Peter Samelson
Peter presented a number of effects based around stories, an invasion of the body snatchers where cards transformed into the same card wen rubbed against each other, an effect based around the story of the Pheonix, a signed tissue burnt and restored like a pheonix rising from the ashes.
peter finaihed with “smoke”, where coins appeared and vanish in a smoke filled glass, coins where produced from smoke and silks, a rock for the male audience member and many jumbo cpi s for the lady, a final super large jumbo dollar was produced on the off beat from silk.

Denis Behr
“Herbert” the rubber band helped find named and selected cards, before a number of Oil and water effects where performed, each more impossible than the last, firstly “hands off” with no visible moves (hands off) through to an almost impossible looking version where the cards were hold punched and pinned in red black order so it was impossible to change their order. After they were indeed back to all red, all black the entire shuffled deck was shown to be to sorted back into Red Black order, as an extra kicker the deck was shaken and shown to be shuffled deck.

Andrew Goldenhersh
Possibly for me one of a number of highlights from the weekend, Andrew Goldenhersh turned an origami butterfly into a real one, a gorgeous moment of magic.
He then did a visually stunning slow coins across/coin matrix set to music, coins almost visibly moving when covered by his hands.
As a final effect Andrew did a wonderful needles an thread from mouth routine. Assisted by Ian rowland, and getting comedy moments from the latex gloves and “elmo” hand puppet Ian Rowland was now sporting.
An excellent set that got a huge round of applause from the audience.