N and C Magic

Who inspires our tricks and style?    There are some truly amazing magicians out there, and we love watching different performances by different people to get ideas of style, routines and tricks. Every magician brings a new take and an individual flair to a trick which we love to see! Having been doing magic for since 2017 we have come across many different performers, from the big international names such as Penn & Teller, Eric Chien, Shin Lim and Jay Sankey to friends who we never knew had a  trick  up their sleeve, and this range of influences and experiences has helped us to develop our own style to mould us into the magicians we are today! We love watching films about  magic , and even went to London to see The Magic Hour in 2018 and The Illusionists in 2019 to gain insight into a different performance method.   For us, our biggest inspirations are the tricks that fool us – we love sitting and watching a trick over and over to try to figure out how it is done. P

Who are Northcott & Carney Magic? Both teachers full time, magic is our side-passion, and we get great enjoyment through learning new tricks and sharing these with others to see their reactions! So how did two maths teachers get into magic?!     In 2017 Carney went on a family holiday to Vegas, and there fell in love with magic through the performances and meeting the infamous Penn & Teller. Upon returning to the staff room and sharing the videos of tricks he had seen there, Northcott also caught the magic bug, and we would each try to figure out how to do the various tricks for ourselves! It is one thing watching videos and understanding how to do it, but a whole other thing to be able to  perform  the tricks for yourself, which led to weekly challenges as to who could perform a new trick the best, and working together to critique and develop. Carney first brought the Lie Detector trick to the table, while Northcott practiced Three Card Monte, and over time and a l