Chris Cross, the Geordie magician

Due to a busy schedule, Tim Burgess was running late and despite many posts of a new schedule, a lot of people just didn’t get the message in time. This meant that a lot of people turned up to the see the legendary Tim Burgess DJ and instead were faced with a magician.

This could have been quite problematic for Chris Cross, a famous magician from Newcastle Upon Tyne, but he took it in his stride, using it to capture his audience's attention and managed well to put on a good show. 

Chris was a very funny guy, he brought members of the audience into his set, including myself, and came up with this hilarious idea, to pretend he was preaching, in order to confuse the other Kendal Callers who were outside the Diner and make them wonder why we were cheering so loud.

As a magician he of course started with a traditional set of card tricks, which were amazing. We still have no idea how he did them. He then went on to "learn" a trick in front of the audience. Whilst doing this all seemed to be going wrong but the ending turned out magnificent and we were in awe, having no idea how had done it after seemingly "struggling". A few other gags were thrown in such a "slicing his arm" which of course he showed us to be a fake knife.

Finally, Chris Cross got on with his final act, escaping a strait jacket and beating his record of 1 minute 30 seconds, which he managed to do with 1 second to spare, stunning the crowd.

Overall Chris Cross was a fantastic magician who handled the situation thrust upon him with ease. He performed acts without flaws and as all great magicians do, without revealing how he did it. 

Loryn