Punk's Not Dead. Long Live the Magic.
The most biting insult that any performer can ever hear after a performance is "that was good."
Good? Magic shouldn't just be good. It should be mind-melting, jaw-dropping, eye-popping, and brain-soupifying. Good doesn't cut it.
So how do you upgrade your card magic from good to incredible? You ask Etienne Pradier. Before he was performing for Penn & Teller and the Royal Family, Pradier was a young magician with a punk-rock edge who needed to figure out what makes a performance unforgettable.
He came up with a list of tricks that he knew blew minds ever single time. Then, compiled them into Never Mind the Bollocks Here's Etienne Pradier.
Tricks like a CAAN using a borrowed deck, Etienne's personal coin matrix, and his absolute favorite stage rope routine.
You're also gonna find card tricks. A lot of them. You'll get a fully inspectable deck that reveals a chosen card in two different ways. A book test that also finds a card lost in the deck. A mind boggling way to produce the four aces. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
This is put together in a striking book that is as much a love letter to early punk as it is to magic. But that just ties into Etienne's philosophy on performing: keep what works, remove what doesn't, and perform with personality.
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's Etienne Pradier is available at any Murphy's Magic dealer, or you can check out with our featured dealer, Magic and Cards! |
