1979
Turned professional. Cabaret in Torquay hotels, over the Christmas and New Year period.

1980


Summer Season, The Prince of Wales Theatre, North Wales "The Ivor Emmanuel 1980 Show."

1981
Cruising for Costa Cruises in the Caribbean (with two different silent magic spots, for twelve months solid).

1982
First performances in London's Covent Garden, with a ten minute silent manipulation act, worked to music.

1983
Covent Garden plus performances in cabaret, at private parties, and corporate functions. TV: Pebble Mill BBC 1 (card productions), TV: Do-It ITV (card manipulation).

1984

Covent Garden plus "The Magician" in the Style Card TV commercial shown in Scotland (manipulating credit cards). Act performed at The Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End for a Charity Gala. Magical consultant on Snowy White's pop video "Bird of Paradise" (the video reached number six in the charts). Time Out Street Entertainers Festival Best Magicians Performance - award sponsored by Stringfellows. Selected to be the opening act, on the grand opening night, of a brand new Arts Centre: Watermans, Brentford.

1985
TV: Arcade ITV (street act), TV: Freetime ITV (liquid magic), TV: Illusions ITV (stage act), TV: The Sooty Show ITV ('floating ball' - Sooty was a real pro), "The Magician" in the Southern Gas commercial ITV (manipulating bank notes), Magic Consultant on a channel Four Movie Rocinante, coaching Ian Dury. Cabaret at The Magic Circle's Supper Party, London.

1986
"The Magician" in a British Gas TV commercial (manipulating "sale" cards). TV: "Christmas in London" Italian TV (cabaret act).

1987
Two months performing in Nagasaki, Japan. Special performances at The British Film Festival, Munich, Germany. TV: Food and Drink BBC2 ("drinks" magic).

1988
TV: Network 7, ITV (card-cheats hands). Two months in Nagasaki, Japan.

1989
Five months in Nagasaki, Japan. "The Magician" in an Allied Carpets TV commercial ("sale" card productions). New Year's Eve at "The Waverley."

1990


Guest performer at The London Mime Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London. Five months in Nagasaki, Japan. Featured performer in "The Stars of The Magic Circle Show," Guildford Civic Hall. Magic debut of my dancing hanky routine at the IBM's British Ring convention, Eastbourne. Cruising for Royal Caribbean International in the Mediterranean. Star cabaret for The Magic Circle Awards Banquet. Cabaret at Xenon's night club, Piccadilly, London. New Year's Eve at the Waverley.

1991
Cabaret at Xenon's, Piccadilly. Magic consultant on the movie "London Kills Me." TV: Tricky Business (act) BBC1. Featured performer in the Gala show at the "Nationaal Congress Voor De Goochelkunst" magic convention, Eindhoven, Holland. Cabaret in Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca. Summer Season at the Winter Gardens, Margate as Wayne Dobson's special guest in "Wayne Dobson - A Kind of Magic." Also at The Royalty Theatre, Great Yarmouth. New Year's Eve at The Waverley.

1992
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon with Wayne Dobson. Magic weekend, Bognor Regis, with Wayne Dobson. TV: Three performances (one per week) on Wayne Dobson's third series of "A Kind of Magic," (the only guest magician ever to appear on the show). Cabaret in Corfu, Rhodes and Spain. Summer season: The Festival Theatre, Paignton, with Wayne Dobson. "Stars of The Magic Circle," Civic Hall, Guildford. Cabaret in Tenerife. Invited to perform at the Daidogei World Cup Festival in Shizuoka, Japan (NHK Creative Inc), awarded the "The Chameleon Award ("Pafo-kun") 1st Daidogei World Cup.

1993
Performance of act on the Blackpool Magicians' Gala Show at the Opera House, Blackpool. TV: Title sequence for QED BBC1. Cabaret at The Magic Circle's Supper Party, London. Cabaret in Corfu, Rhodes and Spain. Four weeks at the Rusutsu Resort Hotel, Hokkaido, Japan. Special guest performer at the Daidogei World Cup Festival in Shizuoka, Japan (NHK Creative Inc). Christmas cabaret at 'The Mirage,' Windsor, with Wayne Dobson.

1994
Invented and built three illusions, featuring Keiko, for a major cruise contract with Royal Caribbean International taking over from Johnny Hart in "The Magic Touch" aboard the Sun Viking. Eight months.

1995
Contract for Royal Caribbean International extended; continued for another eleven months cruising in Alaska, the Caribbean, and the Mediterranean. Performed on the International Gala Show (opening and closing) for Ron and Martin MacMillan's 24th annual Day of Magic, London.

1996
Magic consultant for "The Magic Show" Alton Towers. Guest magician on "An Evening with Wayne Dobson and Friends" at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End. Theatre tour of North Wales. Cabaret at the Opus I.O.M. Convention. Summer Season at The Opera House, Jersey, with Wayne Dobson. Three months cruising for Princess Cruises. Once again asked to perform on the International Gala Show for Ron and Martin MacMillan's International Day of Magic at the London Palladium.

1997
Cruising for Princess Cruises, Cunard, and Costa Cruises (South America, Mexico, West Coast of Africa and the Mediterranean). Magic Spectacular, University Concert Hall, Limerick, Ireland. Cabaret at The Magic Circle's Annual Supper Party.

1998
Invited to perform with Paul Daniels during the opening week of "The Centre for the Magic Arts" - The New Headquarters of The Magic Circle. Supported Wayne Dobson at the Beck Theatre, Hayes. Devised and presented the first one day British convention aimed solely at mind-readers and mentalists MindMagic'98. Starred in The Magic Circle's Christmas Show, held in their excellent new theatre in London.

1999
Cabaret for the Watford Association of Magicians Annual Dinner. Special performance for winners in a magic competition run by The Disney Channel. Magic coach to Liev Schreiber on the movie RKO 281 a movie portraying the events behind the making of Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" starring Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles, Melanie Griffith and John Malkovich. Top of the bill for the first Magic Circle Country Members' Day to be held in the new headquarters. Performance on the Stars der Zauberkunst gala show of the 1st joint Society of American Magicians convention with the 44th Osterreichischer Magier Kongress, Bergenlan, Austria. Staged and presented MindMagic'99.

2000
Cabaret for the British Magical Society's Annual Dinner. Cabaret for the Ilford Magical Society's Annual Dinner. Ten days in Japan for the "Huis Ten Bosch Golden Week Special," Nagasaki, including TV. "An audience with Wayne Dobson and Friends." Staged the third MindMagic seminar, MindMagic 2000. Launched MagicWeek, now visited by 7,000+ amateur and professional magicians every week.

2001
Busy! (Japan, New Orleans S.A.M. convention, MindMagic 2001...)

2002
Still busy! (Card manipulations for the Clio "Va Va Voom" TV commercials, consultancy work on 'Jonathan Creek'...)

2003
Still busy! Blackpool Convention Gala Show in February, plus lots of other stuff!

2004
Awarded the title 'The Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year', plus card manipulation sequences for the new BBC2 TV series "Magic" (transmitted 30th October 2004, Episode Three)

2005
Magic Circle Centenary: guest on the Paul Daniels Gala Show, July, London.

2006
Special guest act on CNNs 'Quest for Magic' with Richard Quest: youtube.com