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Wow!! Can you believe we’re already over halfway through the year?! 

Time is flying, and it’s safe to say 2025 has been packed to the brim with magic, milestones, and major moments. So grab a snack and a cuppa and settle in – here’s what Jay & Joss have been up to so far…

We kicked off January with something rare but much appreciated – a bit of downtime! Taking advantage of the quieter spell, we headed to London to catch Mean Girls: The Musical, which was just as fetch as we hoped it would be. Not long after, we jetted off to Amsterdam to celebrate our stage manager Luke’s 23rd birthday! An unforgettable trip for a truly brilliant member of the team.

Back in the UK, we supported our wonderful friend Tommy J with his solo show in Shrewsbury. We supplied our LED video wall and captured the show on film for his brand-new showreel. Always a pleasure to see talented friends shine.

Spring brought one of our biggest highlights: a residency at the legendary Wicksteed Park – Europe’s oldest theme park! Performing there is always a treat, and this time we pulled out all the stops: LED video wall, moving head lights, venue up-lighters, and…wait for it… four electric confetti cannons (because why not?!). As if that wasn’t dramatic enough, we even made their iconic train, Merlin, VANISH into thin air. Now that’s what we call a showstopper!

We also popped in to see our friend Bernie Keith on BBC Northampton Radio, it’s always a joy to catch up and share what we’ve been working on. Around the same time, we had the pleasure of performing, once again, alongside the fabulous Anne Hegarty from The Chase. Anne is an absolute delight and we’re always thrilled to share a stage with her.

This year also marks the final outing for our beloved ‘Imagination’ show, which we’ve been touring across the UK at holiday parks up and down the country. From Parkdean Resorts and Seal Bay to Searles and Waldegraves, it’s been amazing reconnecting with familiar faces and giving the show a magical send-off.

Behind the scenes, we’ve stepped into the world of magic consulting, prop building, and hiring for an exciting new UK theatre tour. We can’t say too much more just yet but trust us….it’s going to be big!

From glitzy weddings to sleek corporate events, we’ve also been travelling far and wide with our close-up magic performances. No two days are ever the same and that’s just how we like it.

Speaking of big projects… we’ve spent many late nights in the workshop building one of our most ambitious illusions to date: a jaw-dropping contraption that makes a full-size motorbike (with rider onboard)vanish into thin air! This one was custom-built for Stephen Mulhern’s 2025 Butlins summer show, and we can’t wait for audiences to see it in action.

We also returned to The Core at Corby Cube for their variety show and were blown away by the incredible local talent. It’s always an honour to share the stage with so many gifted performers.

And finally… let’s just say there are a few secret projects bubbling away behind the scenes. 👀 We don’t want to give too much away just yet, but keep your eyes peeled as there’s always something new brewing here at Jay & Joss HQ!

We can’t wait to see what the next six months have in store for us!

What an exciting and jam-packed month November was! So many new challenges and fun adventures… let us tell you all about it!

This month, we made our theatrical debut and performed our show ‘Imagination’ live at The Core at Corby Cube, but more on that later!

Wet started off the month by going to Wicksteed park firework display where we ate lots of food and played far too many fairground games! Unfortunately, we didn’t win any prizes! However, fireworks were fab and we thoroughly enjoyed them!

We did our first live theatre show! Performing at The Core Corby was a great experience and we loved getting a feel for how future tours of ours may be! We performed our ‘Imagination’ show and even did a VIP experience where we performed close up to VIP audience members! The whole night went down an absolute storm and we couldn’t be happier with how it went!

Another cool thing we did was perform at the British Metal Recycling Annual Dinner, we love doing this each year! Then we travelled 300 miles up the country to Newcastle to perform at their Magic Circle Dinner.

We finished off the month by returning, once again, to Butlins and then having some well deserved rest! 

Bring on December!

We’re bringing ‘Imagination’ to Corby, Northamptonshire! 

We are so excited to announce that we are going to be performing LIVE at The Core, Corby on the 20th November 2024!

This won’t be the ordinary ‘Imagination’ you’ve seen before… We will be making the show bigger and better than ever with even some new illusions to feature as well! 

It is going to be an amazing night and we can’t wait to share it all with you! 

Standard and VIP tickets are on sale NOW!!

Get them here before the sell out – https://www.thecorecorby.com/whats-on/jay-and-joss-present-imagination/ 

October is one of our favourite months, let me tell you what we got up to! 

we started off the month by decorating our house for Halloween by getting lots of autumnal colours and lights and even some spooky decorations too! Now we are all ready for Spooktober and off to Butlins we go!

Something really exciting that we did this month was buy a huge video wall! We had to travel all of the way to BElgium to get it but it was well worth it! Now we can use it in our upcoming shows!

We were really lucky to be crowned ‘Magic Circle Champions of Stage Illusion’ this year and performed at the Clapham Grand Theatre in London with the rest of the champions from different categories. Everyone was absolutely amazing and we are so happy that we got to be a part of such a special evening! However, whilst rehearsing for this event, Jay unfortunately hurt himself quite badly by falling off of a prop. It’s not an easy watch but we decided to post the video to highlight how dangerous what we do, actually is. Thankfully, Jay has made a full recovery and was back to performing just a matter of days later… What a trouper!! 

At the end of the month, we performed at Waldegraves Holiday Park which went above and beyond with the Halloween festivities! Then we performed over in the Isle of Wight for a Halloween festival and we had so much fun! 

We love September! We started off the month by helping our friends with some tech for a production of Six the Musical – Teen Edition! It was a fantastic production and we loved helping out! We provided a range of lights and scaffold towers and were even lucky enough to watch the performance.

Luckily, we were able to have some time off this month which was great as it doesn’t happen too often! We thought it would be a good idea to make the most of the last of the warm weather, so we decided go for walks each night to wind down and relax ready for bed. As September is more quiet for Butlins dates, there were a few more close up gigs in the diary for us! Its great being able to discover new places around the country and experience some wonderful moments with people.

Another exciting thing we did was ‘The Magic Circle Benevolent Fund Charity Show’ which was an incredible experience which we shared with some of our talented friends! We performed a smaller version of our show as part of a variety show which included lots of fantastic acts. We love being at The Magic Circle and it’s always a pleasure to perform there. We were very proud to be part of the night and proud of the money we raised! 

There was a very special day this month… Jay turned 30! We spent the day in Minehead performing our show in Reds but we still managed to squeeze out as much celebration time as possible! Jay got absolutely spoiled and had a fantastic day!

August was another jam-packed month! One of our highlights this month was performing at Bristol Balloon Fiesta! Our friends at PartyPeeps very kindly asked us to perform and we couldn’t turn down the opportunity, we had so much fun! Thankfully the weather was on our side this day so we got to make the most of this fantastic event after wed finished performing! Another really exciting thing we did was work with the rapper Nines but we cant say too much about that… We also helped out with some magic consultancy for Reading festival and had an amazing time experiencing it after. August has definitely been our busiest month this year and although we’ve loved every minute, we are so ready for a little bit of a rest! Has anybody got any suggestions for what we can get up to? Maybe we’ll feature it in next months blog! 

July was such a busy month for us. We had so much fun in lots of different places around the country. Let us tell you all about it!

We started off the month at Butlins where the weather was quite nice, so we had spent some time at the beach. Then we went to Shorefield, which is a lovely holiday park where we were greeted with a fresh coffee which we thought was a lovely touch! We then continued with some more dates at Butlins having a rare day off at home. We started the day by going to a small coffee for a full English breakfast, went into town, then went to bingo and Luke even won!

Another thing we did in July was going to Northampton pride! it was amazing to see everyone gather to celebrate being who they are and everybody supporting each other, the way it should be. Our favourite close-up gig of the month was definitely performing at Heritage live and then stay there to watch Pete Tong and his symphonic Orchestra perform live! 

We also did some more filming this month with Rendall Boys Media and the Reds tech team at Minehead and the shots turned out incredible! They are amazing at what they do! 

We performed at Searles holiday park and saw ourselves on their wall of fame.

June was a lovely hot month and when we weren’t working, we were outside soaking up the sun! Whilst we were working this month, we got Luke to take lots of photos and videos of our show so we can compile them and add them to our YouTube channel! Something really exciting we did was visit the TwinsFX storage unit and saw some of their amazing props and got to have a really lovely chat to them. We performed at a beautiful Parkdean resort and met some of their fantastic staff.

In May, we had lots of fun helping with some magic consultancy at the Minack Theatre for a production of Doctor Faustus. It was a very tiring day but we loved getting creative with the team!  We also had a very special appearance on Lorraine on ITV to promote ourselves being on Britain’s Got Talent! She was so lovely and even came to have a chat with us in our dressing room before we went live.

Then our episode of BGT finally aired! It was lovely reading everyones comments and seeing lots of support for us! We then returned to Butlins for our touring show and also did a couple of smaller parks too. We had quite a lot of close up gigs booked in this month so we were kept quite busy throughout. 

After one of our close up gigs, we got to spend the Day in Brighton with was great as we don’t normally have time to have a look around the areas we visit for work.