He started performing magic at around twelve years old at school shows, making most of his own props from cardboard and Meccano. His interest in the occult, occurred about this time when he obtained books like Confessions of a Ghost Hunter, by Harry Price and Bram Stoker's Dracula from the local library. There has always been a touch of the Bizarre about his magic although he has done most things, from close up to full stage illusions.  He celebrated his 60th birthday by driving a motor cycle, blind-folded, through a board wall set alight with petrol and straw at a village fair at Bootle, Cumbria (UK).

He has been President of various magical societies, including The Northwest Society of Magicians, The Blackpool and Fylde Mystics, the Preston Magic Circle and a member of the I.B.M. British Ring' since the 1960's.

Brian has performed magic for audiences in Thailand and Borneo, Romania,  and for the armed forces in Germany.  He invents a lot of his effects and has written a book, Mostly Miracles.

Entertainment of an audience is his main concern. His approach to the Bizarre is rather 'tongue in cheek' basing his effects on real events, such as his 'The seventeen coffins of Burke and Hare' and semi - fictional events such as 'The Strasbourg Were-Wolf. Not one of his effects can cause offence to any religious organisation. His persona is that of a Psychic Investigator, based on Villiais Hope Hodgson's 'Carnaki the Ghost Finder’.

His knowledge of the occult is vast, as is his knowledge of Weird Tales to which his large private library testifies.  He claims, tongue firmly in cheek, to have the only genuine copy of the forbidden Necronomicon and the R'lyeh Text as mentioned in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft (although he actually wrote them himself) !

Although some of his effects are scary he makes sure that he and his audience all have fun, fun, fun and, although still inventing and performing, is happy to pass on some of his most cherished secrets, to inspire other magicians.