Close-Up Magic — Est. 2006
FREDDY
Twenty years of sleight of hand, performed inches from your guests' eyes — across Europe, across Asia, and now back home in the UK for a select run of dates.
Twenty years of sleight of hand, performed inches from your guests' eyes — across Europe, across Asia, and now back home in the UK for a select run of dates.
Freddy has spent two decades working rooms most magicians only get a few minutes in — the space between your hand and his, at a wedding table, a corporate reception, a rooftop bar. No stage, no volunteers pulled from the crowd against their will, no props bigger than a deck of cards. Just a trick you'll swear you watched closely enough to catch, and didn't.
That close-up style took him through venues across Europe and Asia, building a reputation on word of mouth and repeat bookings rather than advertising. He's now based back in the UK and taking on a select number of private and corporate dates each season.
Freddy's act is built for close quarters — a table, a bar top, a small circle of guests with nowhere to hide their reaction. The same beat plays out every time: total focus, then total disbelief.
The build. Every eye on the same card, right up until it isn't the card they expected.
And there it is. This is the shot every host wants at their event — genuine, unposed, every time.
Same principle on a theatre night — the crowd's this close even when the room is bigger.
Cards in the air, timing on a beat — the flourish work that bridges close-up into a stage set.
The best close-up work we've booked in fifteen years of corporate events. Guests were still talking about it at the bar afterwards.
He worked the whole reception table by table and never repeated a beat. Impossible to catch, impossible to stop watching.
Sharp, funny, and genuinely baffling. Exactly what a rooftop crowd needed.
Sample of comments I had across the world.
Freddy takes on a limited number of private, corporate, and wedding bookings each season to keep every set close-up and unrushed. Get in touch with your date and headcount and he'll confirm availability directly.