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SARAH meetS dynAmo...
Dynamo
Magician and Inspiration!
I recently had the pleasure of meeting the Bradford man
of magic 'Dynamo'. Travelling up to Manchester we met
in the stunning Gotham Hotel which really set the mood
off with style. Upon meeting him I was surprised to see
how small he is in person but also what a down to
earth, friendly person, instantly likeable! I was intrigued
to know mow, so over a cocktail we got chatting...
So Dynamo, how did you know you
wanted to become a magician and how
did you get into it?
For me, when I was at school I had a bit of
a hard time, I was a small guy, and as you
can see I'm not the biggest now, I was an
easy target to be picked on. My grandad
was always performing magic tricks and
stuff at the local bars, and the one day he
saw me getting pushed into a wheelie bin
and rolled down a hill by bullies at school,
they would take me to the top and just
push me down. They did it for two weeks
straight so I had cuts and bruises all the
time. So the one night my grandpa saw it
when he picked me up from school and
that night he taught me this technique of
how to stop them lifting me up and stick
to the ground so they couldn't move me. I
couldn't believe it when I tried it the next
day at school and they couldn't move me.
So that was the first time I ever did magic,
and it wasn't to do magic to perform it
was to protect myself and stop getting
thrown in a wheelie bin. So after that they
spread rumours around the school that I
was a demon child, and had super powers,
but they did't want to be beaten by little
me. So my grandpa taught me other tricks,
and said if they ever threaten to break
your bones show them this... (at this point
Dynamo bent his little finger into a circle,
like something I had never seen,
fascinating and weird at the same time) so
I'd show them this and say, 'do you worse
guys, I can handle pain'. So magic for me
was more like a defence mechanism , It
wasn't really till my first day at college that
everyone was introducing themselves and
thats when I said 'Im Steven and I like
magic'. Everyone was like 'wow thats
exciting' the college was quite far from my
house too so it kinda gave me a fresh
start, so from that day on I was the magic
guy at school.
So moving on from there I dropped out of
college and my grandparents had lots of
Golden Retrievers and we would travel
around all over the world doing the
Pedigree Chum adverts, it was crazy in the
day we would travel in this big winnebago
all over America and places, and then in
the evening I would perform magic at the
'Dog Show After Parties' yes they do exist,
and my grandma would give me pocket
money. So travelling around all these
places we went to New O