Pete has decided to give the Edinburgh Fringe a miss this year, so Brightion might be your only chance to catch a full-length public show in 2011!
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
Here's a list of my current and most recent public shows. Please Click the sub-menu buttons to the left for more detailed information on each event.
ABSURDIA Comedy Cabaret: I'm hosting a comedy Cabaret at the Quadrant Pub in Brighton on the third Friday of each month (excluding May, which is given over to the Brighton Fringe. Shows typically feature an eclectic mix of magic, music, mindreading and comedy, with yours truly, as the Mindreading M.C.
Next few dates: March 18th April 15th June 17th July 15th
The Quadrant is on North Street, next to the clock tower, and opposite Boots. 'ABSURDIA' starts at 9pm, and costs £5.00 on the door.
BRIGHTON FRINGE PSYCHIC? May 2010 My third full-length Festival show, entitled 'Psychic?' is due to play at the Brighton Fringe during May 2011. Click here for details Or here for tickets
PREVIOUS PUBLIC SHOWS!
Edinburgh Fringe August 2010 Another all-new show, running late night for two weeks. I was in the City Cafe this time, which proved to be a lovely venue, and the audiences were great!
Brighton Fringe May 2010 A streamlined and reworked version of my 'Psychic Party Games' show, running throughout the Brighton Fringe!
Edinburgh Fringe August 2009 An all-new show. Fifteen midnight performances in a row saw me jetlagged for weeks afterwards, but I had a blast!
MEDIUM vs MAGICIAN EXPERIMENT Saturday 25 April, 2009 Dragon Hall, Covent Garden Tickets available from Fright Nights At the Covent Garden Dragon Hall in the heart of London, Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe, parapsychologist from TV’s Most Haunted, hosts a unique experiment on the nature of belief. Inspired by the experiments undertaken by the Society for Psychical Research and Harry Houdini in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, we ask “Do the Spirits Talk to Us?”
The challenge involves a clairvoyant medium and a mind-reading magician. Both will take the stage individually in the auspicious surroundings of the Dragon Hall theatre in Covent Garden. Who has the ability and the talent to impress the audience with their gift and their accuracy? This promises to be an entertaining afternoon, which hopes to also address more serious issues. Can the clairvoyant medium demonstrate the authenticity of their gift, or will the mind-reading magician show that mediumship is really little more than a well intentioned “trick of the mind”?
We are very pleased to announce that international spiritualist medium, Donna Stewart has taken the challenge as the representative of mediums everywhere! Donna is a natural medium with an unassuming style that has gained her a reputation for delivering highly accurate and detailed messages from the spirit world.
Donna will be challenged by world-class mind reading magician and member of the Magic Circle, Peter Campbell-Wells who has successfully appeared at the Edinburgh Festival. He has many years experience of “cold reading” a trick in which it appears he is reading your mind! Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing the person's body language, clothing, hairstyle etc.
Conducted in an open and even-handed manner, Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe promises to be an impartial judge and the perfect host for such a unique event.
The Dragon Hall is located 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LT, very close to both Holburn tube station and Covent Garden tube
DARK SEANCE Wednesday, 28 April, 2009 London Irish Centre, Camden Tickets available from Fright Nights Taking inspiration from the mediums, psychics and mind-readers of the Victorian era, gothic magician and Magic Circle member Peter Campbell-Wells presents an evening of sinister wonders and gothic marvels! Combining the rituals of the séance room with the techniques of the mind-reader, this promises to be a delightfully dark evening’s entertainment. Guaranteed to get the blood pumping!
A Dark Seance is not for the faint hearted. Taking a paranormal event and twisting it to the extreme, an Inferno experience immerses the brave participants into a night of dark and edgy supernatural encounters, with close up magic and intimate séances, haunted tours and devilish illusions.
Inferno nights provide intrepid members of the public with a rare chance to test their limits, mixing vigils, magic and psychic terror into a night of paranormal suspense and surprise. Led by one of UK’s psychic illusionists the guests are immersed deep into a powerful and intense evening of dark and thrilling entertainment.
A cocktail of gothic excitement and real supernatural experience, Inferno nights are a must for anyone wanting to sample dark entertainment at its best.
For the final session, you will take part in a séance and glass moving session – will we discover any ghosts at London-Irish Centre?
Dark Seances are strictly for over the 18’s and are not suitable for pregnant women or those with a nervous disposition.
MENTAL! Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant 12 North Street, Brighton May 11, 12 & 13th at 9.00pm May 15 & 16th at 11.55pm Tickets £5.00 (£4.00 conc)
My one-man show, MENTAL!, will be at the Brighton Festival Fringe in May 2009. Check back soon for dates and times!
The event is free, but attendance is by invitation only. Members of the public are invited to apply for a place at the event, although only a small number of spaces are available, and I can't guarantee that you'll receive an invite.
Click the 'Halloween 2008' link for more.
MENTAL Edinburgh Fringe 2008
I've just returned from a hectic couple of weeks at the Edinburgh Fringe, performing my one-man show, Mental!
I had immense fun, and Three Weeks magazine was nice enough to refer to it as 'mind boggling'.
'Mental!' is available as a show to book for private parties and receptions.
