Matt Tarrant – Honestly Dishonest

Matt Tarrant is honest about his profession when it comes to the dishonesty – which is the core of magic! However, Matt does state at the beginning that “Magic sucks!” Magic sucks because of technology e.g. the iPhone and what we as a crowd expect from a magic show and then we Google how the magician did it.

With this in mind, Matt performed a range of tricks starting with ‘close-up magic’ and going to his passion/forte, which is being a ‘Mentalist’ – which is apparently one of the hardest forms of magic. Matt takes you through his magical journey, including stories of the grumpy, one armed René Lavand who not only specialised in close-up magic and some good old fashioned card tricks, but that it was he who inspired him to become a magician.

Matt’s performance was extremely entertaining, funny, inclusive, interactive and mind-blowing! Your mind will go into overdrive trying to figure out exactly how he was able to perform such magical feats.

Venue: Gluttony – The Octagon
Rating: 4.5 stars