Paul Bavill
Leeds, City and Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire
(13)
Leeds, City and Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire
(13)
Paul's offbeat blend of comedy and magic and utter nonsense is an entertaining and baffling addition to your event whether it be festival, themed evening, party or wedding.
Featuring gambling routines, macabre and mysterious shows or mentalism and science shows can be tailored to whatever theme you require.
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13 customer reviews
Ellen Amor
Paul was fantastic from the minute he arrived,everyone was so entertained by him n I just was amazed!!!highly recommend Paul !!
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Sophie Wentworth
Paul was fantastic travelling from Leeds to Christchurch for my mum and her partners wedding. Entertained the guests perfectly and made them speechless! Booked for our wedding now next year and cannot wait for more performances. Thank you so much! More...
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Paul Mallory
Paul is a very nice person and an excellent magician. He performed at our wedding recently and had everybody spellbound. I would recommend him for any close up magic situation, More...
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Diane Verity
Paul came to my 60th birthday celebration at the "Old Deanery" in Ripon. It was afternoon tea in the garden room and gardens on a superb sunny Sunday afternoon in August.
He worked with groups and around tables bringing fun, bewilderment and wonder. Everyone enjoyed his work and are still talking about tricks he did. I would recommend Paul for any function where guests say "How did he do that!"
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Jo Stead
People are still talking about how amazed they were by Paul's performance at our wedding; he is slick, sharp witted and truly baffled us all of how he did the tricks. He also left us a couple of moments of the day and with closer inspection, we still can't figure how he does it - Just brilliant More...
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Dave Ellis
Paul performed at our corporate Christmas event last night. From the off he wowed all our our guests with some perfect close up magic. Paul stayed with our guests throughout the evening and continued to impress. Paul was very professional, with great communication through from the booking process to the event itself. Highly recommended! More...
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Georgina Tillotson
I had the absolute pleasure of taking part today before the fair & my gosh it was an amazing show! Still gobsmacked now haha! Thank you xx
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Leanne Annabelle Theron
Paul was great my son loved him and all his tricks and the guest enjoyed all his tricks thanks for coming to our wedding paul �
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Magician
Perfect for our requirements and local too.
David Ellis
Paul performed for us last night at our Christmas party. From the beginning to the end, Paul impressed every single guest. He really is an outstanding magician. Would recommend in a heartbeat! More...
Lucy Wray
Fantastic entertainer, everyone was wowed by Paul's performance. Thank you very much and we will see you again in the near future!
Diane Verity
Paul was absolutely fantastic for the summer Sunday afternoon 60th birthday get together at The Old Deanery in Ripon. He included all the guests, working around those at tables and standing in groups. He amazed people with his tricks. Excellent. A pleasure to have at any function. More...
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We were lucky enough to secure Paul for a 30th birthday party at very short notice. Paul blended in well with our crowd and undertook table card tricks which worked very well and people thought he was really good. Thank you
How long have you been interested in magic?
I first piqued my interest in magic at an early age watching the 'Paul Daniels Magic Show' in the early 1980s and my schooldays were a regular list of plays, performances and amateur dramatics.
In later years I have combined my love of performing with my love of history and been a regular appearance at many of the country's living history festivals and 1940s weekends.
Having spent the bulk of my time performing for family and friends I was very grateful to the Leeds Steampunk Market who gave me my first performances and from there I have expanded into the wedding industry while still keeping my roots in historical events.
Take us through your show – what can we expect?
Depends on the event, which I know is probably a more woolly answer than you were hoping for but...
A typical wedding would involve me starting at the drinks reception or basically that part of the wedding day when the photographer takes over and starts directing everyone to get through the photo shoot as quickly as possible. Everybody breaks off into small groups and dare not go anywhere else in case they are needed and so there's a degree of standing around. I'd circulate around the guests doing short routines, usually in the hands card magic, helping people pass the time. This continues, although with different magic, during the gaps between courses in the wedding breakfast and up to the speeches.
I always keep a few things up my sleeve for the happy couple too.
