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Reading Sanders The Great’s blog this morning I noticed that I noticed that he mentions that Derren Browns show from last year, Something Wicked This Way Comes, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk. I’ve actually seen this show twice now, once in February 2006, and once in June 2005, both shows were excellent.

“The first half started with a thunderous round of applause as Derren walked confidently onto the stage. As with most of his live shows a ’selector’ was thrown into the audience to pick out helpers for each effect, this time in the form of a monkey in a yellow raincoat.

Every effect was neat, crisp and very much bewildering in every sense, with probably only two of the effects that I honestly really didn’t have any clue on how he managed to be spot on with. The show is really divided into two halves, as shows normally are, but this was very much more a Yin and Yang type of division between the first and second acts.

The first half was very upbeat, funny and what I would call Derren’s normal style of work. The second half started a lot more darker with some fakir type effects (nail hammered into the nose and effects with broken glass) before moving back to a nicely done huge prediction effect, it was especially nice to have the mood lifted back to the light hearted and more mental work, as I’m not a huge fan of Derren doing the putting himself through pain and danger type of effects.

Even though, the effects during the second half were still very entertaining and did work well with the other parts of the show.”

The show has also been broadcast on Channel 4, although some sections were cut out of the final edit (possibly the better ones of the show).

The DVD is due for release on the 20th April 2008, and includes deleted scenes (assuming these will be the sections in the show that didn’t make it to TV), and behind the scene footage. Cost is £9.74 at the moment, normal price £12.99 (or it’s listed as available for rental)