5 Top Tips for Hiring a Magician in London
Take the stress out of hiring entertainment in London for a corporate event with advice from a professional!
As an example of how a London Magician can help if things don’t go to plan imagine this. You are running an event for 300 people, 10 people per table so 30 round tables, that is a regular event in the London Hotels and sometimes not even the super large hotels. Now the catering staff waiters ad waitresses have to deliver 300 meals, not just one meals, starters, main course, afters coffees, sweets, bread baskets, wine, water and drink top ups, now most venues I have worked at don’t have enough man power to serve everyone at the exact same time.Â
… a London Magician can help if things don’t go to plan…
 If the starters is a cold started then sometimes that is already down, but for the main course it is a different ball game. This where hiring a London Magician comes into it’s own. A London Magician will go around the tables during the course performing his or her magic tricks while waiters are delivering the meals to the other tables, and due the fact that the London Magician can be entertaining each table for five to ten minutes at a time this form of entertainment is the perfect solution to this dead time. There is really no other form of entertainment aside from magic that I can think of that is this suited to sorting out this problem. All the people around the tables attention will be grabbed, captivated and they won’t even realise that there was any ‘dead time’ to begin with, they will just think it is just a really great part of the evening.
Magic is very popular at the moment with the rise of magicians popularity from David Blaine and Criss Angel in the USA and Derren Brown and Dynamo here in the UK
Of course, you don’t have to book a London Magician just to fill in the gaps of your evening, many of the London Magicians that I have worked with are hired just because they are just a solid form of magical entertainment. Magic is very popular at the moment with the rise of magicians popularity from David Blaine and Criss Angel in the USA and Derren Brown and Dynamo here in the UK. One of the best London Magicians I have seen is Keelan Leyser a UK Magician that has been on hundreds of television shows but can be regularly seen in performing his brand of magic in and around London. If Keelan is above your budget then I know Keelan has a team of London Magicians that he recommends for events in and around London.
If you are trying to locate a London magician on the internet then there are things you should check out like, does the London Magician have a video of himself performing his act, if not you have to ask yourself why not. Secondly it is worth checking out to see what venues the London Magicians has worked, if they have worked places in Park Lane like the Dorchester Hotel or the Grosvenor you can be more certain that this magician is of a caliber and all being well good enough to book. Check to see if the London magicians have a blog of where they are working, if they have an active blog then this shows that they are constantly being booked which is a great sign.
A London Magician can relieve you of any worries of potential dead time created by the catering staff
So to sum up, if you are booking an event in London and are concerned about how it is going to run or perceived by your guests then you may want to look into hiring a London Magician. A London Magician can relieve you of any worries of potential dead time created by the catering staff, they do this by entertaining with their magic tricks around the tables to your guests. As a rule of thumb I would say you need one London Magician per 100 guests so if you have 300 guests, I would consider booking 3 London Magicians or a the very least 2 London Magicians to makes sure that they can get around all the guests when you need them too. This is usually during the drinks reception and the actual dinner in between courses. I hope this article was usual to you and gave you plenty of reasons of why you should hire a London Magician for your next event.
