During my trip to Fukuoka, I visited the magic bar "Red Carpet" twice. The owner, magician Hiro, is a friend of the owner of the magic bar I do magic at in Sapporo, and we met in Sapporo before. Red Carpet is located in the Nakasu entertainment district in Fukuoka. The bar itself is quite large, with a counter for magic shows and quite a few tables were larger groups of people can sit and eat (and watch more magic). There was even a place to play darts. The interior decorations had an Egyptian theme, with lots of posters and small figurines of Egyptian gods etc.
福岡に行っていた時にマジックバー「Red Carpet」に2回も行った。オーナーのヒロさんがうちのマジックバーのオーナーと仲良い。札幌に来ていた時に一回会った。Red Carpetが福岡の中洲にあるので、行きやすい。バーが結構広くて、マジックショー用のカウンターもテーブル席もある。ダーツの出来る。ヒロさんはエジプトのことが好きらしい。エジプトの飾り物がいっぱいあって、きれいだった。
When I first arrived, there was one more guest there and he also knew some magic. Even though there were only the two of us, magician Hiro put on a full magic show for us, and another magician also did some close up magic for me. The next day I went back and then the counter was full, so full that even after adding two more chairs there was no room for me. I watched the magic show from a table seat instead.
初めて行った時に他にお客さん1人がいて、彼もマジックが出来るみたい。お客さん2人しかいなくても、ヒロさんが本格的なマジックショーをやってくれた。もう1人のマジシャンもクローズアップを見せてくれたし。次の日はカウンターが満席だった。椅子2つ足しても、満席だった。僕がテーブル席からマジックショーもう１回観た。
The magic show contained lots of different types of magic. Hiro did magic accompanied by music, and the choice of music was made with the magic in mind (or maybe the other way around). There were lots of funny gag type magic tricks (like a brown handkerchief turning into poo, or a balloon turning into a penis), some mentalist type effects, card magic, fork bending, and some very strange cubes that changed places under impossible conditions. His closing effect was the cup and balls using cans of canned fruits. In the end, not only did a lot of actual fruits show up, the cans also turned into unopened cans, and a live white mouse also appeared out of one of the cans.
マジックショーは色々なマジックがあった。音楽に合わせてマジックをやっていた。ギャグネタが多くて（例えば、茶色のハンカチがうんこに変わる、風船がチンコになる）、笑えた。メンタリズム的なマジックもあったし、カード・フォーク曲げ・不思議なように入れ替わるキューブのマジック、色々あった。最後にカップ＆ボールのマジックがあった。缶詰めのミカンの缶を使って、最後に本物のミカンが沢山出たし、缶が新品の状態に戻っていたし、生きている白ネズミが出たし、面白かった。
Hiro also does a very nice cigarette magic routine, where in the end a card that had previously been torn to pieces also appears and is restored. I was also impressed by a card trick where one spectator selects a card, and another spectator that does not know which the selected card is sweeps his hand around the edge of a fan of cards and stops wherever he wants and in the end turns out to stop with his finger pointing right at the selected card. Hiro also showed me some tricks that he thought I would be interested in but that were not in the show, including a coin in a glass covered by another glass that still started (and stopped) spinning on command, a strange card case from which you could produce a deck of cards with a certain card at any number, and throwing a deck of cards wrapped in rubber bands up and having only one card stick to the ceiling (a famous trick that I had not seen live before).
タバコのマジックのルーティンも良かった。タバコのマジックをやりながら、突然前に破いたカードが現れて復活した。他に感動したマジックはカードを選んで貰って、選んだカードを知らないお客さんにカードのファンを見せる。お客さんがファンの周りに指を動かして、好きな時に止める。その時に、別のお客さんの選んだカードを指差していた。他にショーに入っていないマジックだが僕が好きそうなネタも色々見せてくれた。例えば、グラスにコインを入れて、上にグラスも１つ被せたのに、コインが回ったり止まったりした。不思議なカードケースからトランプ出したら、上から何枚目でも特別なカードが出るとか。トランプを輪ゴムでとめて、上に投げると1枚だけ天井にくっつくマジックも初めて生で観た。
Summary:
Location: In the entertainment district Nakasu, easy to get to by subway.
Type of magic: Close up.
Quality of magic: Good.
Cost: I paid 3,000 yen, including one drink.
Interior: Egyptian things here and there, nice.
Staff: Funny, very friendly.
Overall impression: A lot of strange magic. Also lots of gags. Funny.
まとめ：
場所：中洲、行きやすい
マジックの種類：クローズアップ
マジックの質：良かった
値段：僕は3,000円だった
インテリア：エジプトの飾り物が多くて、きれい
スタッフ：面白い。優しい。
全体的な印象：不思議なマジックが多かった。ギャグネタも多かった。面白かった。
