Josep is a student at the Escola de Hosteleria in Girona on the entertainers course. My wife teaches on that course and had been asked by Josep to attend. The weather that night was bloody cold and she was really tired but we got on our glad rags to go out.

I personally was delighted in the end to be there because the Xirois drummers that won the contest were amazing and there were other good acts too. I was quite impressed with the trick that Josep did with the help of the beautiful assistant, another student on the course. I still can’t imagine how many knots that the poor girls must have been tied into to avoid being stabbed to death with snooker cues by Josep. Well done there Josep, good illusion. He did win a prize, I think it was second place in the ‘Tu de Que’ Vas competition that was part of the Platja d’Aro Carnaval week of events.

I have to admit to not being the wielder of the camera on this occasion, Victoria did that part of it and I just did the editing of it in FinalCut Express afterwards. The lighting was a bit poor to work with but you can see clearly though what a good trick this was.