The rooms he has already worked
Twenty global brands, a royal family, and a fundraiser where the room went silent.
Coca-Cola, Bentley, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, illy, Levi's, FlixBus, Designers Guild and Freshfields have all booked James. FTI Consulting have used him for their top tier corporate events for half a decade. He has performed at private royal family events, at the British Benevolent Fund fundraiser, and on the Lovin Dubai Show. He has been featured in Madrid Metropolitan. If your event is the kind where the wrong booking is remembered for the wrong reason, that history is the reassurance.
Why event planners in Dubai book this magician
Most entertainment fills a gap. This is the part of the night people photograph.
On stage. Up close. And everywhere in between.
Headline the gala, work the cocktails, or do both across a full evening. Every booking is shaped around your audience.
Real performances, real reactions, across the Middle East and beyond
Stage magic, mind reading and moments of genuine wonder
Six formats, from a headline magic show on stage to close-up magic at the tables.
How a Dubai gala runs with James in it
The magic is not one slot in your running order. It covers the three moments where an event usually sags.
Guests arrive and stand about with a drink, so James works the room group to group with close-up magic, and the noise level rises within minutes. Dinner is served and the room settles, so nothing happens and the food gets your guests' full attention. Between courses, or straight after the awards, James takes the stage for 20 to 45 minutes of mentalism, and this is the part people film. Then the room breaks for coffee and he is back on the floor for the guests who want to see it up close a second time. One performer, three moments, no dead air, and your AV team only sets up once.
What a Magic Circle member actually is
Anyone can call themselves a magician. Only a few hundred people in the world hold this.
The Magic Circle was founded in London in 1905 and remains the most respected magicians' society in the world. You do not buy your way in. You perform for a panel of members, you are examined on technique and on how you handle a room, and you can be expelled for exposing how any of it works. James is a member. For an event planner booking someone they have never seen, that matters more than a showreel does, because a showreel is edited and a Magic Circle examination is not. It is the difference between a performer who owns some tricks and one whose craft has been tested by people who cannot be fooled.
MEMBER OFTHE MAGIC CIRCLE
LONDON, EST. 1905
We have been using James for our top tier corporate events for half a decade, where James has perennially wowed our most important and senior clients.
He is a trusted partner to our events and has delivered across the Middle East and UK and always mixes high levels of professionalism with a product that never ever ceases to amaze and delight our audiences.
I discovered magic at 29. It changed everything.
James got into magic at 29 while travelling Southeast Asia, where a magician named Adam Axford performed for him and changed the plan. Back in England he taught himself sleight of hand. Axford became his mentor.
Cards and coins led to mentalism: mind-reading, predictions, divining personal details. He relocated to Dubai and became one of the most in-demand entertainers in the GCC, now represented by Motivate Talent.
Where James performs
Dubai is home. The work is not.
James is based in Dubai and performs across the Emirates, most often in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, at hotel ballrooms, private villas, conference halls and palace events. He works regularly across the Gulf, in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and has performed in nine countries in total. FTI Consulting have flown him between the Middle East and the UK for over five years. Travel outside the Emirates is quoted with the booking rather than added afterwards, so the number you are given is the number you pay.
Hiring a magician in Dubai, answered
Book James for your event
Arrange a call to talk through your date and your room. James will recommend the format that suits it, send the showreels that match, and hold the date while you decide.
