Steve makes magical return to Electric Picnic

Limerick magician Steve Spade will make a return appearance at this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival as part of Jerry Fishโ€™s Electric Sideshow.

Skilled in a wide variety of magic including illusion, hypnosis, escapology, and mind-reading,ย Spade told the Limerick Post that he is “delighted to be asked back” to Electric Picnic this year, afterย wowing 10,000 stage-goers with his illusions last year.

The Coonagh native has been doing magic since he was four year old, taking inspiration from his uncle, who was also a magician, and the likes of Harry Houdiniย and David Copperfield.

He honed his skills on the Limerick entertainment scene, developing a solid repertoire of card and coin skills, performing at every opportunity on the streets, in pubs, clubs andย kidsโ€™ parties.ย 

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These days you can find him at festivals, corporate and wedding events, as well as being a firm favourite on the celebrity scene where he’s impressed everyone fromย Mike Tyson and Russell Brand to Rihanna and Calvin Harris.

His goal is to become a “master magician” – someone who is a master in every form of magic, and it’s safe to say, he isn’t too far off achieving that ambition.

He does everything fromย sleight of hand tricks to strait-jacket escapes,ย including wriggling out of 100 feet of rope and padlocks in just over 40 seconds to avoid being burned at the stake in front of King John’s Castle toย escaping from a wooden crate that had been dropped into the River Shannon in front of over 2,000 people.

“I am always trying to push the envelope!” he said.

Returning for the sixth year promoting โ€œunity through diversityโ€ Jerry Fishโ€™s majesticย Electric Sideshowย promises everything from circus, cabaret, burlesque and sideshow performers from the US, the UK and Ireland.ย 

Some of the sideshow theatre performers who join Spade on the line-up for this year’s Electric Sideshow includeย drag iconย Vedaย (Queen of Ireland); Jelly Boy the Clown; pole-dancing extraordinaire and fire queenย Terri Fierce; burlesque performersย The Pony Girls; Sideshow Sweetheartย Foxy P Cox; Cabaret King Desmond Oโ€™Connor; The Dirty Circus and the Grim Squeakerโ€™s Rogue Gallery.

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