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Barry Jones

Biography of Magician Barry Jones and his TV performances in BBC The Magicians as Barry & Stuart:

Barry Jones was born in 1980 and was brought up in Portlethen, Scotland.

His career path can be read in the biography of his stage and TV partner Stuart Macleod which can be read here.

The Magicians

Stuart Macleod and Barry Jones starred in The Magicians on BBC 1 each Saturday night in January 2011. The presenter of The Magicians was Lenny Henry who helps to bring magic back to Saturday nights on the BBC. There were three magicians and illusionists in the program who were Luis De Matos, Chris Korn and Stuart and Barry. Each week The Magicians were joined by celebrity guests to help them with their magic tricks. Celebrities included Ashley Banjo, Diversity dance troupe,Bruno Tonioli, Sian Williams, Ade Edmondson, Amanda Byram and Peter Jones.

In the first episode of The Magicians magic tricks included getting the dance troupe diversity to appear one at a time out of a cardboard box., Bruno Tonioli sawing a woman in half in a Doctor Franenstein stage using a chainsaw and blade to separate the upper and lower body of the volunteer.

During the street magic section of episode one of The Magicians Stuart and Barry took Breakfast presenter Sian Williams to a London sweet shop where Stuart Macleod ate handfuls of assorted sweets and then regurgitated each sweet to a customer in an attempt to guess which sweet she was thinking off. Though magician Stuart Macleod did not get her first sweet right he got it correct when a hand was punched out of his stomach holding bubble gum.

Stuart Macleod and Barry Jones then taught Sian Williams how to mind read by reading the mind of a member of the studio audience. They then did the sword cabinet trick with Sian Williams in a box where instead of using swords Stuart Macleod and Barry Jones fired crossbows with bolts and ran at the box with sharpened javelins.

At the end of the episodes of The Magicians the studio audience vote for their favourite acts and those magicians and illusionists with the least votes have to perform a forfeit trick with their celebrity guest. Stuart and Barry got the least votes for the first episode and had to perform a bare feet fire walk. For more information about The Magicians visit the official The Magicians website at www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/magicians/

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Part two of The Magicians aired on Saturday 8 January 2011 at 7pm. The Magicians was presented by Lenny Henry and celebrity guests were Dragon’s Den and entrepreneur Peter Jones, actor and comedy performer Ade Edmondson and the presenter of Total Wipeout Amanada Byram.

Barry & Stuart

Barry & Stuart were partnered with Ade Edmondson and they performed the smashing watch trick with a mobile phone from the audience. Instead of a hammer Barry & Stuart used a high speed blender and made the mobile phone into a cocktail drink which Stuart Macleod drank. Barry & Stuart then used an x-ray machine to see Stuart’s spleen which showed an intact telephone. Barry Jones then climbed through Stuart’s abdomen to try to retrieve the mobile phone.

Barry & Stuart then performed a grand illusion trick to make appear a dream car using paint on a designated graffiti wall. This included the make, Audi, the colour, white, and a personalised number plate. From the trailer Ade Edmondson pulled out a crushed cube of a car which was a white Audi with the personalised number plate. When Ade Edmondson put the crushed car back into the trailer Barry & Stuart performed a magical MOT and turned it into a white horse.

Barry & Stuart then performed one of their famously disgusting tricks of balancing a spoon on the end of their nose – using a 5 inch nail through Barry Jones’ nostril!

Luis de Matos and Peter Jones performed a stage vanishing trick with Peter Jones in his Porsche car with license plate Peter1. Members of the audience held hands and circled the Porsche with Peter in the driving seat. Luis de Matos raised a curtain over the Porsche and when he lowered the curtain seconds later the car and Peter Jones had vanished.

Luis de Matos and Peter Jones performed an escapologist trick with Peter Jones in chains and Luis de Matos in a strait jacket hung upside down tied with chains to his feet over the studio audience. Peter Jones then had to give Luis de Matos instructions to escape from the strait jacket whilst Luis had to give Peter instructions to escape being chained.

During the street magic round Luis de Matos and Peter Jones performed the disappearing card trick at Shepherd’s Bush market.

Chris Korn and Amanda Byram performed sleight of hand tricks during the street magic round. This included the predicting card trick with the help of the fire brigade. Legendary Illusionist Chris Korn, with the help of Amanda Byram, performed the famous Victorian Mystery Box. Amanda Byram confessed that she had always wanted to be Houdini’s assistant. A red and white rope was used to perform tricks along with a walking stick and solid metal ring with the end reveal being Chris Korn making a lady called Victoria appear out of the Victorian Mystery Box.

The grand illusion trick by Chris Korn and Amanda Byram was called seeing is believing where they choose a sceptic from the audience and taught the rest of the audience to put Amanda Byram into a tent and make a car then helicopter appear.

Lenny Henry gave the answer to the trick on the Magicians website and announced the winners of The Magicians who were Luis de Matos and Peter Jones followed in second place by Barry Jones, Stuart Macleod and Ade Edmondson. The losers were Chris Korn and Amanda Byram who performed a trick forfeit of having to lie on a bed of nails whilst a motorbike and rider drove over their chests. The next episode of The Magicians has celebrity guests of Chris Tarrant, Stephen K Amos and Samantha Womack.

Episode three of The Magicians on Saturday 15 January 2011 saw Barry and Stuart partner with comic Stephen K Amos. Other celebrity guests were Samantha Womack and Chris Tarrant. Barry and Stuart demonstrated their first ever trick which was making a mouse appear in a matchbox. They modernised their old trick into a giant matchbox suspended from a ceiling and made Stephen K Amos appear on a camel from it. Their next performance was an invisibility trick using boxes and a cloak to make parts of the body appear invisible. Their street magic tricks used playing cards and £20 notes in decks of cards. Barry & Stuart won this episode of The Magicians and Chris Tarrant and Luis de Matos performed the forfeit of walking on a glass and sword staircase.

Future celebrity guests in The Magicians include N-Dubz, Martin Kemp and Rolf Harris.

The fourth episode of The Magicians was broadcast on BBC1 on 22 January 2011 with celebrity guests N-Dubz,Martin Kemp and Rolf Harris. Martin Kemp was partnered with Stuart & Barry and they performed the optical illusion of using a spiral to make a head shrink, perform teleportation between boxes and a grand illusion of a 12 inch needle piercing a tongue. Stuart & Barry then performed the trick of balancing on the tip of a sword and then giving the illusion of being impaled. Their street magic was tying Martin Kemp to a chair and picking a card from his mouth. The winners of this episode of The Magicians was Stuart & Barry whilst the losers who had to perform the forfeit of having concrete slabs broken on their tummies was Chris Korn and Rolf Harris though presenter Lenny Henry had to perform the trick of having concrete smashed on his tummy.

Episode five of The Magicians was shown on the 29 January 2011 on BBC 1 with celeb guests Angela Griffin, Neil Morrissey and actor Larry Lamb and his radio and TV presenter son George Lamb. Angela Griffin was partnered with Barry & Stuart. They performed the red carpet illusion and whilst explaining the trick they swapped Angela Griffin and placed her in the audience from the box on the stage. Angela Griffin and Barry & Stuart then performed the prediction trick using books, e-mail and YouTube. Back in the studio Angela Griffin and Barry & Stuart performed a ghost story illusion. The winners of this episode of The Magicians were Luis De Matos and Neil Morrissey whilst Chris Korn, Larry Lamb and George Lamb had to perform a forfeit of bending a steel rod using their throats.

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Lemon Tree Aberdeen

Barry & Stuart Live is at the Lemon Tree Aberdeen from 9 to 11 June 2011.

Barry Jones and Stuart Macleod will be performing at the Lemon Tree Aberdeen on the 12 June 2010.