Making Magic in London revisited

After going on the Making Magic in London day on October 25^th with Dominique Provost-Chalkley and Taylor Hickson, I went back to visit the locations and take the photos that I didn’t get the chance to do on the actual day.

Staring with the bus stop. I could finally get all the photos I wanted without any danger of stepping into the main road or having to barge Taylor out of the way to get behind her.

This was the poster frame where Dom’s father replaced the poster inside with one designed by Hayley.

Then it was round the corner to Lower Marsh and the bars. First The Glitch. BTW, the decaf tea was fine, but the less said about the cheese toastie the better. And they don’t accept cash.

The performance space is at the back of the bar and it actually quite small. The film gives the impression that it is bigger. Part of the magic of film!

This is where Jo (Taylor) was set up for her gig.

This is the site of the post gig Magic meets Jo and has the disastrous chat up attempts. The bar is quite crowded. Yes, those are free dog biscuits.

Next stop Scooter Caffee

This is where Jo and Magic went on their ‘date’. BTW, they don’t do decaf tea, but were happy to oblige when I produced my own tea bag [never travel without them!]. And they do accept cash. The date was filmed downstairs at Scooter Caffe. You go down a winding metal staircase to the basement.

There are three booths downstairs as well as other tables and chairs. Magic and Jo sat in the middle of the three booths, with the picture removed. Nice to sit where they filmed.

Come out of Scooter Caffe and turn left and in a few yards you are at Leake Street and the graffiti arches

This is a really interesting underground world. Everything from club entrances, exhibition spaces and plenty of graffiti artists in action. You can smell the paint.

And the side tunnel where we took the tour photos.

The large Magic mural had already been painted over when we went to see it, replaced by a mural of a witch. But even that had been painted over in the days between my two visits.

I walked through the tunnels towards the London Eye.

Then East, towards the steps and the beach.

This was as far as we got on the walking tour, because we had to head back towards the London Eye for the ride that was prebooked and timed. But to see the final few parts, we needed to go just a little further.

These are the Old Barge House Stairs.

This is where Magic climbed over the railings and Jo tried to climb through them and dropped her phone. I know Taylor is on the petite size, but climbing through there would be a challenge, even for somebody like her. I imagine filming that was hilarious.

Yes, of course I climbed down the steps.