We’re bringing ‘Imagination’ to Corby, Northamptonshire!
We are so excited to announce that we are going to be performing LIVE at The Core, Corby on the 20th November 2024!
This won’t be the ordinary ‘Imagination’ you’ve seen before… We will be making the show bigger and better than ever with even some new illusions to feature as well!
It is going to be an amazing night and we can’t wait to share it all with you!
October is one of our favourite months, let me tell you what we got up to!
we started off the month by decorating our house for Halloween by getting lots of autumnal colours and lights and even some spooky decorations too! Now we are all ready for Spooktober and off to Butlins we go!
Something really exciting that we did this month was buy a huge video wall! We had to travel all of the way to BElgium to get it but it was well worth it! Now we can use it in our upcoming shows!
We were really lucky to be crowned ‘Magic Circle Champions of Stage Illusion’ this year and performed at the Clapham Grand Theatre in London with the rest of the champions from different categories. Everyone was absolutely amazing and we are so happy that we got to be a part of such a special evening! However, whilst rehearsing for this event, Jay unfortunately hurt himself quite badly by falling off of a prop. It’s not an easy watch but we decided to post the video to highlight how dangerous what we do, actually is. Thankfully, Jay has made a full recovery and was back to performing just a matter of days later… What a trouper!!
At the end of the month, we performed at Waldegraves Holiday Park which went above and beyond with the Halloween festivities! Then we performed over in the Isle of Wight for a Halloween festival and we had so much fun!
We love September! We started off the month by helping our friends with some tech for a production of Six the Musical – Teen Edition! It was a fantastic production and we loved helping out! We provided a range of lights and scaffold towers and were even lucky enough to watch the performance.
Luckily, we were able to have some time off this month which was great as it doesn’t happen too often! We thought it would be a good idea to make the most of the last of the warm weather, so we decided go for walks each night to wind down and relax ready for bed. As September is more quiet for Butlins dates, there were a few more close up gigs in the diary for us! Its great being able to discover new places around the country and experience some wonderful moments with people.
Another exciting thing we did was ‘The Magic Circle Benevolent Fund Charity Show’ which was an incredible experience which we shared with some of our talented friends! We performed a smaller version of our show as part of a variety show which included lots of fantastic acts. We love being at The Magic Circle and it’s always a pleasure to perform there. We were very proud to be part of the night and proud of the money we raised!
There was a very special day this month… Jay turned 30! We spent the day in Minehead performing our show in Reds but we still managed to squeeze out as much celebration time as possible! Jay got absolutely spoiled and had a fantastic day!
August was another jam-packed month! One of our highlights this month was performing at Bristol Balloon Fiesta! Our friends at PartyPeeps very kindly asked us to perform and we couldn’t turn down the opportunity, we had so much fun! Thankfully the weather was on our side this day so we got to make the most of this fantastic event after wed finished performing! Another really exciting thing we did was work with the rapper Nines but we cant say too much about that… We also helped out with some magic consultancy for Reading festival and had an amazing time experiencing it after. August has definitely been our busiest month this year and although we’ve loved every minute, we are so ready for a little bit of a rest! Has anybody got any suggestions for what we can get up to? Maybe we’ll feature it in next months blog!
July was such a busy month for us. We had so much fun in lots of different places around the country. Let us tell you all about it!
We started off the month at Butlins where the weather was quite nice, so we had spent some time at the beach. Then we went to Shorefield, which is a lovely holiday park where we were greeted with a fresh coffee which we thought was a lovely touch! We then continued with some more dates at Butlins having a rare day off at home. We started the day by going to a small coffee for a full English breakfast, went into town, then went to bingo and Luke even won!
Another thing we did in July was going to Northampton pride! it was amazing to see everyone gather to celebrate being who they are and everybody supporting each other, the way it should be. Our favourite close-up gig of the month was definitely performing at Heritage live and then stay there to watch Pete Tong and his symphonic Orchestra perform live!
We also did some more filming this month with Rendall Boys Media and the Reds tech team at Minehead and the shots turned out incredible! They are amazing at what they do!
We performed at Searles holiday park and saw ourselves on their wall of fame.
June was a lovely hot month and when we weren’t working, we were outside soaking up the sun! Whilst we were working this month, we got Luke to take lots of photos and videos of our show so we can compile them and add them to our YouTube channel! Something really exciting we did was visit the TwinsFX storage unit and saw some of their amazing props and got to have a really lovely chat to them. We performed at a beautiful Parkdean resort and met some of their fantastic staff.
In May, we had lots of fun helping with some magic consultancy at the Minack Theatre for a production of Doctor Faustus. It was a very tiring day but we loved getting creative with the team! We also had a very special appearance on Lorraine on ITV to promote ourselves being on Britain’s Got Talent! She was so lovely and even came to have a chat with us in our dressing room before we went live.
Then our episode of BGT finally aired! It was lovely reading everyones comments and seeing lots of support for us! We then returned to Butlins for our touring show and also did a couple of smaller parks too. We had quite a lot of close up gigs booked in this month so we were kept quite busy throughout.
After one of our close up gigs, we got to spend the Day in Brighton with was great as we don’t normally have time to have a look around the areas we visit for work.
We had loads of fun in April! Stick around and we’ll tell you more!
We started off the month at Butlins, on tour with our show, what a great way to start the month! After setting up our new studio, we have been creating lots of new fun and exciting YouTube videos that we will be posting on our channel so keep your eyes peeled for those!
One of our highlights for the month was going to Seal Bay Resort in Chichester. We have never performed at this resort and we absolutely loved it! It was such a beautiful place and the performance space was amazing with lots of cool technical elements that we loved playing around with! The resort was so big, there was a bus that took you around as everywhere was too far to walk!
There were also a couple of boring things that have had to take care of this month like getting our lorry serviced… yawn! We made the most of this however, by bringing our laptops and getting lots of work done with a lovely coffee in Costa. It was a long four hour wait but food and drinks definitely kept us going! Speaking of which, we treated ourselves to a waffle maker this month! We’ve been loving going to the waffle shop in town so we thought why not make them ourselves, it’s been a lot of fun experimenting with lots of different sweets and chocolate combinations!
Something nice we did this month was having our own barbeque, we started up the logfire and had a lovely chilled night in the hottub. It was well needed! The day after, we went to the Olivier Awards in London, we had so much fun watching the ceremony and then we met up with a friend for food after.
To close the month, we did a couple more live shows across the country, some more close up gigs and spent some time in the office sorting out lots of admin work.
We started off the month by doing a big Costco shop to stock up on snacks and drinks for the office, we love getting the big box of cookies from there to have with a nice coffee! We’ve been spending a lot of time in the office lately, building props and production equipment for an external theatre show that were really excited about! Once everything is up and running we will be sharing pictures with you all!
Our friend Alfie came down to visit us too, we went to bingo and had a meal which was lovely as we haven’t seen him for a while! I’m not sure he was the biggest fan of bingo, it was a little bit too fast paced!
Something fun we did was performing at Centre Parks, it was a stunning resort and we had the best time doing close up magic and performing some of our show there. Its always nice to see lots of different parts of the UK and this was is Cumbria where we aren’t at that often.
How could we forget, we saw Frozen the Musical this month! It was absolutely fantastic and we loved every minute of it! We went there with our friend Ella who we have worked with previously so it was great to see her! Later on, we met up with our friend Luke who is currently preparing to perform his show Diva from Hell at the Edinburgh Fringe… We cant wait to see the show!
We finished off the month by returning to Butlins for our tour then had some well needed relaxation time, it was well needed!
Even though February is the shortest month, we’ve still managed to cram a whole lot into it! Let me update you with all that’s gone on since we last caught up.
We started off the month by sourcing new props for future shows, making sure we have fresh, exciting illusions to entertain our audiences. We picked up four different illusions and have been busy rehearsing with them ever since. There is something we bought that we’re so excited to use as it involves an audience member participating! Do you think you’ll be brave enough to take part?
We started touring again this month, performing our old show for now at Butlins. We had a lot of fun performing and seeing our friends there who we haven’t seen for a couple of months. It’s always nice to get back onstage after a little break.
Another exciting thing that came this month is our new merch! We’ve released new magic sets, slap bands, wristbands and restocked our caps as they are a fan favourite! Everybody loves a good deal so we have released package deals of our new merch that are exclusive to our online shop, one of them even includes the opportunity to personalise some of the items!
As usual, there have been many close up gigs that we’ve attended for events such as parties and corporate events. We always love doing our close up gigs as the intimacy of engaging with our audience up close and personal brings another level of magic to our performances. Being able to witness the immediate reactions of the audience is such an amazing feeling!
The thing that we’ve been the most excited about this month however is the Blackpool Magic Convention. This is the world’s largest convention where over 3,000 magicians go to meet to showcase their talents; sell any props or merchandise that they own and to just have a great time! We were there for the whole weekend and loved every minute of it from watching the gala performances to once again, buying new props and illusions for our shows! The warehouse here at Jay & Joss HQ is definitely getting a little bit too full now!
We finished off the month by performing at Butlins again and rehearsing with all of our purchases that we’ve acquired over the month, it’s been a lot of fun! Keep checking back for more updates!
