I am one of three people to be invited more than once to the Street Performance World Championship and boy was it worth it. I did the biggest shows of my life and had incredible times. I'm already longing for the third time which will hopefully be in a few years.

Dundas Buskerfest in Ontario is a treat of a festival. It would have been perfect if it wasn't for the sweltering, brain melting heat. But good times were had with Magic Brian and Anne and lots of new friends

Växjö culture day was a lovely afternoon and I did a big show in the city centre. I also got to see Trix do their tricks and Sirqus Alfon perform their lovely, high energy quirk and damn they are good.

I was asked back to perform at Swedish variety show Salong Giraff and got to be in a show with some amazing acts. Juggler Jay Gilligan, clown Red Basterd, charmer Ambrose and dancers from the opera. Pic or video coming up soon.

I have just worked a stand at Scandinavias largest trade show - Nordbygg. Eight shows a day for four days attracting people to Lindab's stand. Among the people laughing and going wow was Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, one of the three richest men in the world.

I was employed by the Swedish College of Dance to teach and direct their students of circus arts for a week.

My ex girlfriend Sofia from Sweden moved to Sydney a few months ago for a phd in history. I met up with her in Sydney and we celebrated christmas together. Wonderful to be able to have christmas with someone I'm close to while being on the other side of the world.

After that I had New Years in Melbourne with Nick, Ulla, Paddy, Tim, Tom and the lovely Bridgett. It was 41 degrees hot and my head was melting.

My first time on the southern island of New Zeeland was one of the best times of my life. I came back to Christchurch not really to work, but mainly to see the country again as a tourist. I went to Rotarua and chilled out in one of the most beautiful places in the world.

A week is not enough time to hang out with Robin but that's all we had. He was bogged down with design jobs for television so we spent the days in his office where I spent time on my new promo video. The evening was spent drinking beer, eating sushi and playing pool ball with a tazer.

I also took some days to visit the Magic Castle in Hollywood again and see the shows and Luke who was performing that week.

I went with my friend Pedro Tochas from Minifest straight to Vegas. We were joined by dear colleague Robin Spehar and spent a week watching shows, playing poker and living on the edge. At one point we watched three Cirque de Soleil grand spectacles in two days. My fondest memories are from the show Ka, the buffet in the Bellagio and Robin going all enthusiastic about stuff.

After they left I hooked up with young master mindreader Luke Jermay. Luke has one of the brightest minds in magic and delivers the deadly combination of being great on stage as well. I spent two more weeks in Vegas playing poker and hanging out with Luke and his friends. Thanks Luke. Good times!

Minifest is a workshow for professional performers lasting for 5 days 24/7. It was one of the best things I've done for my performing skills for a long time and I'll definitely go back next year if I can. It was made even more fun by the presence of Magic Brian and Pedro Tochas, dear friends and colleagues.

I also performed in a Baltimore theatre as part of the festival show.

I started my 3rd tour round the globe with two weeks in New York staying with very funny Magic Brian and very lovely Jacqueline Raposo. I φ New York!

My good friend Johan Wellton asked me to act as a warmup act in Spegeln Teater, a really nice Theatre in Gävle. I always enjoy working in swedish, something I get to do far too seldom and it was a really lovely show. Thank you Johan and everyone that showed up. The review says: "...the magician Charlie Caper opened the evening. Skillful magic was performed with the same charm as Johan Wellton and that's why Charlie Caper felt like a natural element in this cultural event."
Marie Björk, of newspaper "Gävle Dagblad" 24/10. The show got 5 stars.

I did a show in medieval restaurant "Sjätte tunnan" in Stockholms Old Town. Organised by my entertainer friend Martin it was a really good night.

My fourth Intermagia Festival in Spain working with mainly the same artists as in Valladolid. Omar Pasha and Mad Martin were added to our merry band of magicians. I added in two new tricks into my show (which happens very, very seldom I might say) and they were both great so I'm very happy about that. I also managed an extremely big show part of which can be seen here on the right. A better picture of that show will come here later.

I was on my third Intermagia Festival in Spain working with a list of some of my favourite magicians on this Planet. Organized by Paulino Gil I performed alongside Steve Faulkner, Dr Marrax, Civi Civiak, Norbert Ferre, Danny Cole, Daba, Victor Voitko and last but not least Luis de Matos. It was a real pleasure hanging out with these guys again, my performances were really good and I put a new trick into the show which works really well, so I'm very excited about it. I really love working in Spain and I'm already looking forward to my next time here which will most certainly be in the spring.

I worked at a couple of festivals in Switzerland including the Teaterspektakel and Basel Lebt and travelled around a lot. I also saw my old friend Brian Bruno, an extremely talented musician for the first time in a few years which was great. Also I made some new friends in Argentinan couple Arte el Paso who performs with music and puppets and storytelling. Their show is very sweet and they are great people too.

A performer friend of mine Martin Hansson convinced me to visit the medieval week in Visby. The great big man got me a place to stay and organized medieval clothing for me and a nightly gig at the best restaurant of the festival "Bittra Haren" (directly translated "The Bitter Hare". Visby is a whole week with a medieval theme in a very old city which was one the main trading posts of northern Europe during the middle ages. The whole thing was great and I met fun performers apart from Martin such as Arkadia and Jocke.

Touring central Europe doing street shows.

In Ireland I was booked as an act for the Street Performance World Championship to perform over ten shows. It's a festival that only brings in really fantastic acts and most of the other acts were legends and heroes of mine. This year I was proud to rub shoulders with Gamarjobat, Mario - Queen of the Circus, The Raspyni Brothers, Popeyed, Daredevil Chicken Club, El Gleno Grande and the Space Cowboy plus a couple more, all world class acts.

A 'Magic Corner" was created near the entrance of the festival park specifically for me and fellow street magician Kenneth Lightfoot and it was full to the brim from morning til evening of happy festival goers. It was some of the best audiences I've ever had and they loved every second of the show. It was so packed, at one point the festival organisers had to ask me to tell the audience they're not allowed to climb trees or lampposts to be able to see since they could fall down and hurt themselves. I recommend anyone to make it to Dublin for the festival next year as you will see some of the best shows of your life.

I went to New York to work, network and hang out with friends. I was living with good friend Silly Billy, probably the best childrens magician in the world and with fellow street performer Magic Brian. I love New York!!!

The greatest street magician that ever lived is a man called Jim Cellini. He is now retired and lives is Switzerland with his amazing wife Marianne. Last year they invited me to come to Switzerland and now was the time, so i spent ten days with them in Switzerland, talking about life, drinking coffee and doing the odd magic show in Zurich. I will never forget their hospitality, friendliness and stories. I'll see you soon again guys!

I took part in the great festival Intermagia Salamanca 2007 organized by Paulino Gil. I got to work with some fantastic magicians including Luis De Matos, Omar Pasha, Julius Frack, Steve Faulkner, Dream Makers, Civi Civiak, Alberto De Figueredo, Mahka Tendo and JJ. It was a fantastic time with new and old friends in one of the most beautiful cities I have ever visited.

I'm heading up to Johan Welltons hideout Fabriken in Gävle for two weeks to create and rehearse a new show.

I did some shows in Granada in the south and Madrid in the middle. Upon leaving I'm already looking forward to going back to this lovely country and luckily I'll be back in a few weeks.

I'm in Mexico on a holiday with a lot of surfing and a bit of shows. I ended up doing shows in restaurants, hotels, in the street and a charity gig. I had a great time and now that I've made the contacts over there I'm planning to go back in the autumn for a month or two. That clear blue carribean water is calling...

Just spending some time with my parents and working on a new promo video.

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

2006

I was lucky enough to be invited to perform at the III Festival de Magia Ciudad de León in Spain organized by Juan Mayoral - a fantastic Spanish magician with quite a bit of fame among magicians. I did nine shows and got got to hang out with some very cool magicians. I am very happy with the way that my shows went and how I managed to still be really funny even with my limited Spanish language skills. Juan and his guys took really good care of me. Thank you so much Juan.

There's a variety show called Salong Giraff in Orionteatern, one of Stockholms nicest theatres. It's a wild beast of a show I loved to be in it. There was some funny acts and two really good air acrobatics acts. I also saw a lot of old friends there like half the cast from Johan Wellton's variety show and a couple of Stockholms best magicians Axel, Leif, Anders, Stefan and John. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Saunas are lovely. And my parents have one in their house :) This is where I intend to spend as much time as possible before Christmas. I'm also doing magic in Casino Cosmopol Malmö, performing in Gävle for the city council and in Stockholm in a theatre and more... Just after christmas it looks like I've got another three day gig in Spain.

In England I attended the fantastic International Magic Convention. As always it was a lovely reunion with old and new friends over lots of beer and coffee and card tricks. I again got a chance to see the amazing Jim Cellini - the legend in street magic and a great inspiration as an artist and as a man. It's an honour to sit at his table and hear his greater than life stories from his travels. I'll see you again Jim when spring comes back and the snow melts.

For my first time I worked in Italy. I haven't been there for ten years and I enjoyed coming back. It was gorgeous! The people, the atmosphere, and the food...

I was extremely impressed by Venice and the fact it's a normal city that works completely without cars. Noone has a car in the city and life still fuctions normally and the lack of noise and stress is sweetly noticable.

I decided to spend 6 weeks at home in Sweden with my parents. It's been a great time, I've rehearsed and developed lots of new material and spent lots of time with friends. It has also been restful and I have recovered from a very long and hard season.

It is the 13th year for fabulous magic festival Jornadas Internacionales De Magia in Spain. I'm working together with some of the best magicians in the world and frankly I'm very proud to be here. I did my show in Spanish for the first time with mixed results. It was fun though and the week after in Madrid I was able to properly do my show in Spanish. It was so much fun and it's good to know that those two years of studying the language in school were not wasted.

Edinburgh during the fringe festival is the most fun place to be in the world. So there was no question I was to return this year. An amazing time was had and I did an insane amount of street shows and saw lots of great shows in theatres. At Fringe Sunday in the meadows i did what in terms of sheer space used was by far the biggest street show I've ever done. The crowd were so far away I would have had trouble throwing a rock at them. I had borrowed a legendary amplifier from legendary colleague JP and was blasting the crowd with sound and magic. Not bad for a little magic show from Sweden. Bets are I'll be back next year.

I was engaged to organize street magic at the World Championships Of Magic held every three years and this time in Stockholm. I gathered a motley crew of the best street magicians in the world and and we descended upon the city. It was Nick Nickolas, James James, Kenny Lightfoot and myself. Also there but performing in theatre settings were the two real street magic legends, Cellini and Gazzo. Our team did several street shows a day for the whole of the festival and the days before it. It was great fun to be there and see old friends, watch the competition and finish second in the unofficial world magicians poker tournament.

I'm at Lisboamagica, Street Magic World Festival. It's a gig where I'm performing with some fantastic magicians and I'm very excited. I've done good shows and I've had so much inspiration from my colleagues and have already tried out some new ideas on stage. Thanks Luis and the team for letting me come to Portugal again. It's been great.

I have tried to get some holiday time with friends and have performed at the Scandinavian Jazz Festivals. It's been a good time and I have learnt to do backwards somersaults into the water at the beach with visiting cirkus performers Jouni and Victor.

I worked for the London Architecture Biennale and it was great fun. Good audiences and a lovely day. Someone was selling ice cold slices of watermelon and that hit the spot of the cherry on the pie. Thanks Emma and the architechture guys.

I'm here on a mission to work more in my home part of the world so that I can spend more time with old friends and family. So far it has been ok I guess and I'm writing this sitting on a flight to Stockholm for a meeting with the organizers of FISM 2006 - the world convention of magic where I will make sure street shows are happening. I'm going to scout out good places to work and make sure everything is sorted with Stockholm City Council.

Back in Europe! I did a charity gig for UNICEF in conjunction with the Lamborghini SuperCar Celebration the other day in Brighton and it fell apart a bit from horrible weather. I'm trying not to despair but of my last 15 days of performance outdoors 9 days have been pouring down. I'm praying this is not a trend here to stay. In the evening I went to visit good friends working in the Famous Spiegeltent - an amazing portable variety show venue and nightclub, and had an amazing time. I wish I could have stayed with them longer.

The Hitachi Daidogei was really nice. I met many of the performers from Korea again and despite rain the first day it was still sweet. Sometimes it's nice to have to step under a little ceiling and do a tiny show for thirty real enthusiasts while the rain is pouring a few metres away. The second day had splendid weather and I'm really enjoying it and learning constantly about doing shows when noone understands what I'm saying. It's great as I can feel a more visual style developing within me. I wonder what will have happened to my performance when I get back to English speaking countries.

In Korea to work a three day festival. I learnt two sentences in korean and I also leant that it is very difficult to find vegetarian food in Korea. The country was sweet and I did some huge shows outside and some lovely ones in a theatre.

I am in Guma with Funny Bones and Herbie Treehead and Hashimoto-san. It's a lovely little country fair and the first shows are gorgeous. We do three shows each which adds up to nine and I think it's the same audience watching every single show. He he. It was a nice time and I got to play some ping-pong with Chris and try a Japanese onsen, hot water bath.

Thousands of tourists have descended on Melbourne to watch the Commonwealth Games. I am one of 25 with a license to do streetshows and starting from St Patrick's day they are cracking shows indeed. I am working alongside Arizona Jones, Jules, Robin, Akron, Bikeboy and Scoot, eating well and drinking lots of the black Irish gold.

The Adelaide Fringe Festival has been so much fun. I have met Johan Wellton, and Tina, the only other international Street performers from Sweden for the first time. Strange that we all would meet at the other side of the world. About 25 of my friends were in Adelaide for the festival and every day was lots of fun. I did some incredible shows. I were also hired by the staff of the Spiegeltent to teach them swingdancing of all things. It was a big success and now I will always have people to dance with in the Spiegel.

Australia day 2006 was incredible in Sydney. I did 3 really big shows for a loving crowd and hung out with fellow London performer The Great Dave. In the evening I went to a party with some performers in Darling Harbour, watched the fireworks and drank some really good single malt. It's what life is about.

I went to Rarotonga of the Cook Islands and ended up doing a nice show in a restaurant called the Waterline. The owner, a great old fisherman called Chris who had some incredible tales to tell put a funny ad in the paper and it went down really well.

2005

I performed at The Magic Circle headquarters in London. It was a great opportunity for me to show the English magicians what kind of performer I had become since arriving in London a few years earlier.

At the British magic convention in Southport I performed in the Arts Centre Theatre on the Banquet Evening with Tim Smithies. I did my normal set and Tim juggled axes and had a spectator hit him with a hammer. It was a great show. Afterwards I was asked to perform at The Magic Circle a few days later.

Engaged by Luis de Matos to perform on Encontros Magicos, a magic festival spanning a week in Portugal. I did about 15 public shows including one in a prison and five minutes on live national television. Doing magic on live TV for the first time was quite scary. Five million people were would have spotted any mistake. Luis gave me some great advice before the shoot and I am very happy with what I did. Leaving Portugal was sad and I hope to be back soon again.

I did street shows and gigs all over the place this summer.

I was on Australian Television with a 10 min spot on Champagne Comedy on Channel 31, one of the world's longest running comedy shows. My friend Nick Nickolas got me a gig as a warm up act and the producer liked me and gave me the TV spot a month after.

In Japan I performed twice at magic convention Japan Cup 2005 to great reactions.

While being engaged during february in Singapore I took part in the Close-Up Magic Competition at the big Singapore IF Magic Convention and finished 2nd of ten participants from all over Asia. First and third places were won by Jeremy Pei and Nique Tan, two extremely talented magicians and very good friends.