These are the places and moments where the act tends to earn its keep for Manchester businesses, with a word on private bookings at the end.
Conference season at Manchester Central
Manchester Central, the old railway station turned convention centre, hosts national conferences and trade shows through most of the year. If you're exhibiting, you need people to stop at your stand. If you're organising, you need the evening reception to feel like more than warm wine and lanyards.
Both jobs suit roaming close-up. The Digital Magician can borrow a delegate's phone and leave them staring at it, which makes a cracking icebreaker and gives your team an easy way into a conversation. On a busy stand they could work the queue as well, so nobody's stood around waiting to talk to you.
Dinners and awards on Peter Street
Across the road, The Midland has been hosting business dinners for well over a century. Rooms like that are made for an after-dinner stage show, with the action on screens so everyone can see what's going on, even from the tables by the back wall.
So the show isn't just for the front few rows. That's the big difference from a traditional magician working with small props on a stage, and it's why a few hundred people in black tie can all react at the same moment.
Tech firms, agencies and MediaCityUK
Salford Quays is packed with broadcasters, digital agencies and software companies. These are audiences who spend all day on screens, and they're hard to impress with a deck of cards. Watching their own devices do something impossible lands differently.
For a team away day or a product announcement, ask us about a bespoke reveal built around your app or brand. We'll want to know the product, the room and how big the moment needs to be.
It doesn't have to be elaborate. Sometimes a logo turning up where it shouldn't be is all a launch needs.
Parties, weddings and the rest
Away from work, we book The Digital Magician for milestone birthdays in the Northern Quarter, wedding receptions out in Cheshire and private parties all over Greater Manchester. A tech-led act goes down especially well at a big birthday, where half the guests have their phones out anyway.
Send us your date, rough guest numbers and the venue, and we'll reply with availability and a quote.