Joe Power is a D**k!

Freckles..!

I'm here watching this Derren Brown show on Channel 4 and this psychic fella he has on, Joe Power, is really pissing me off. He claims to have all these psychic powers, charging 40 quid a pop for a few minutes of pure ****e and blatently directing people to tell him stuff. Then when he gets questioned on it he gets on the defensive. He refused to take a test on his powers and when he did a reading which Derren set up, it went ****e and he blamed it all on Derren.

Absolute W****r! :mad:

PirateShampoo

Wrong forum.....

But just watched this myself, thought it was pretty good and the final revelation was pretty funny.

Daemos

I avoid anything to do with 'phychics'. They're all scam artists, pure and simple.

Rented Mule

He should have known that the questions were coming.

Riddle101

Haven't seen it, but I will say, that this Joe Power guy certainly sounds like a complete and utter twat.

OutlawPete

I can't stand Derek Acorah.

humanji

Riddle101 wrote: »

Haven't seen it, but I will say, that this Joe Power guy certainly sounds like a complete and utter twat.

He sounds like the kind of guy who could take on Barry Scott.

ChairmanWow

With a name like that he should be a superhero but you are right. He is a Dick

Miguel_Sanchez

With a surname like that you'd think he'd change his first name to Max.

Even just for a year.

Paparazzo

He's got an amazing website: http://www.joepower.co.uk/

He's like the English Cris Angel. (In douchy-ness, not in his line of work)

Paparazzo

Here's a good description of the show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/may/08/screen-burn-derren-brown-investigates

Magicians, pardon the generalisation, are tossers. Admittedly, I make that assertion while being only familiar with three (Daniels, Copperfield, Blaine) but there seems to be something, a powerful force, in the paranormal realm that corrupts, impels one to wear dreadful shirts, or grow irritating beards. Derren Brown may have a beard, but he's the non-tosser that proves the rule; witty and self-deprecating and always ready to actually show us all how it's done. His new series Derren Brown Investigates (Mon, 10pm, C4) is intriguing as it takes this active demystification and applies it to other people, in this case the Liverpudlian medium Joe Power, and – by crikey! – those people don't like it one bit.

It's never been a better time to be a medium. In times of recession and fiscal uncertainty, people are apparently more willing to look beyond the corporeal world for security, although quite how having a strange man telling you that your dead dad is standing behind you provides that security is not really explained. Power is Liverpool's leading spirit communicator, and over the course of a week with Brown, he proves that, quite frankly, the dead of Merseyside must be pretty undiscriminating about who they'll talk through.

This film, The Man Who Contacts The Dead, is partly about the medium trade, rather more about envy and delusion. What's apparent from the get-go is that Power simultaneously harbours desires to reach Derren Brown-sized audiences – when he's not seeing dead people, he probably dreams of the day that he gets to wear a microphone headset just like Derren's – and the festering resentment of a man who knows he won't get there. He's determined not to be upstaged by Brown and, indeed, gives a virtuoso performance of twattery that would actually beef his stage act up no end.

A medium he may be, but when it comes to being an arsehole he is a definite XXXL; he starts to goad Brown with jibes about his "psychic powers" almost as soon as he arrives and somehow manages even to direct Brown to the lavatory in a snide manner (try it at home, it's not easy). The tension is never far from the surface, and by the end of the show, we discover that when Joe Power huffs, he huffs magnificently and completely without dignity. And by the time the huffs do come, he is well and truly revealing his hand; when it finally becomes apparent that Brown comes not to praise his nonsense but to bury it, he accuses Brown of "bad showmanship" and then, as the pair enjoy an unbearably terse farewell, says, "it's been a pleasure working with you" as if they are two old luvvie chums at a wrap party. If there are any ghosts reading this, please try to communicate to your earthly scouse vessel that when somebody makes a film setting out to undermine everything you do it does not qualify as your having "worked with" them.

He starts so well. Within minutes of meeting his first client he has somehow managed to channel the spirit of the man that she used to buy eggs off (!). Maybe she still owes him for a dozen or something. But when Brown himself attempts a sitting and repeatedly gets his assertions confirmed as correct, Power palpably flips, and is forced to leap back in to score some "hits" of his own, just to show off.

The programme seeks to show that what Power does is "cold reading" – basically, a clever mixture of suggestion and guesswork with the added hilarious caveat that, if it all starts to unravel, he simply blames his mistakes on the ghosts themselves.

But finally, inevitably, he unloads on Brown, in a meltdown which is made all the more amusing by the fact that the medium is wearing a comedy flat cap throughout. "I'm quite disgusted that you choose to stoop this low," he snarls, and when you make your living speaking to deceased egg vendors, you know a thing or two about stooping.

Rockrugby

Did anyone notice he went upstairs to the toilet to check for photo and info that would help him....he did it twice with the first and second girl.

FruitLover

Joe Power is a Duck??

monkeyfudge

Paparazzo wrote: »

He's got an amazing website: http://www.joepower.co.uk/

OMG! Look at how many buttons he has on his coat. I bet I could talk to dead people if I had that many buttons.

orourkeda

Paparazzo wrote: »

Here's a good description of the show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/may/08/screen-burn-derren-brown-investigates

In response to this article how can being a non tosser prove that you are a tosser.

Bodhisopha

I knew the guy looked familiar. His dreams of the big time (living tv) are finished now. Scumbag.

http://www.joepower.co.uk/about-joe-power/46-about-joe-power.html

His most recent exploration is the case of sixteen year old Amy Fitzpatrick, the Irish teen who went missing in Spain on New Year's morning. A national Irish newspaper paid for Joe to fly to Spain and investigate. He appeared on Ireland AM the top morning chat show in Ireland, and hit headlines with his information leading him to meet with the Spanish Police to help their inquiries. Joe continues to investigate and work tirelessly on other unsolved cases around the world, using his gift to help grieving families find closure

The newspaper in question is The Sunday World.

Mike 1972

A national Irish newspaper paid for Joe to fly to Spain and investigate

If the guy is Physic why was it necessary for him to travel to Spain ?

strobe

orourkeda wrote: »

In response to this article how can being a non tosser prove that you are a tosser.

It's just an expression man "the exception that proves the rule", it makes no fukking sense. Good article though.

I liked the program. Definately gonna watch the series. The bizare and frightening thing is that even after some people watch that show, they would still happily pay that Joe guy to come give them a reading.

bob_2010

I lost every ounce of respect for derren brown after that "lottery" bs last year.

strobe

bob_2010 wrote: »

I lost every ounce of respect for derren brown after that "lottery" bs last year.

Why exactly? He readily admits that everything he does is just a trick. He obviously didn't predict the lotto numbers. But the "craft" of magicians is that they do something which you know is just a con but you can't tell how exactly they pulled it off. That's what magicians do. It's the whole point. Losing respect for Derren Brown over the lotto thing is like losing respect for a builder for building stuff.

DamienH

Houdini unmasked so many of these "psychics," I find it hard to believe that anyone would still believe almost 100 years later. I suppose if people have a lot of grief and emotional pain in their life they'll believe anything.

DrumSteve

tbf he was a twat.

_feedback_

Enjoyed that show last night - he really made a show of Power! Enjoyed when he asked yer wan from Hollyoaks if she drove a Mini - it turned out she had pulled in next to him in a mini outside a few mins earlier!

For anyone that didn't see it - he just picks out names and numbers from the sky and asks people if it rings any bells. Then they basically fit everything around the random things he says.

Next week Brown meets a guy who claims he can make blind people see !

Pyr0

DamienH wrote: »

Houdini unmasked so many of these "psychics," I find it hard to believe that anyone would still believe almost 100 years later. I suppose if people have a lot of grief and emotional pain in their life they'll believe anything.

Get loads of people to tell the public something for long enough and they'll slowly start to believe it as truth.

jimmyendless

Jesus, what about the people that go to these shows? They are nearly as bad as him for eating this poo.

fryup

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

I avoid anything to do with 'phychics'. They're all scam artists, pure and simple.

well the ones that look for money are:cool:

fatmammycat

No, they ALL are. Bunch of woo riddled frauds.

Lassard

I got distinctly creepy vibes from watching Power as he seemed to be trying to constantly brow-beat Derren. Did anyone notice that the man does not blink !

Bodhisopha

Lassard wrote: »

I got distinctly creepy vibes from watching Power as he seemed to be trying to constantly brow-beat Derren. Did anyone notice that the man does not blink !

Yeah, the staredown at the end was very creepy. I think he even freaked DB out a little bit.

qwytre

I don't think I have ever seen a man to stare so intently into peoples eyes when he talks. He barely blinked and did not break eye contact for minutes at a time when talking to Derren.

Obviously a fake but he has nearly persuaded himself he isn't.

petes

I'm getting the word......nonce.

WindSock

Mike 1972 wrote: »

If the guy is Physic why was it necessary for him to travel to Spain ?

To test the theories of motion?

billymitchell

Insurgent wrote: »

I'm getting the word......nonce.

God dammit, I was just about to post that

Another Peter Kay quote :

Mystic meg :"it's a £ for 2 questions"..........

punter : "that's a bit expensive isn't it? "

Mystic meg : "yes it is love,and your next question ?"

Joey the lips

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65831206#post65831206


He is not the only dick it seems..

wyrn

For those who haven't seen it (me) it's not on 4OD yet however I've found it on youtube. Not liking Joe at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlhjsiBEDw

Kasabian

I know a John Power , he is a dick , I wonder are they related.

patmac

Lol at the end when it turns out that by coincidence his sister just happened to live beside the women at the beginning that he had so many hits with. It is also doubtful he went to the toilet when he went into the house a quick scout round the bedrooms for pictures of dead love ones to contact.
He was such a numpty for going on the programme in the first place.
All psychics are frauds and they can sue me if they want. It would be an easy case to defend.
‘I would like to call my first witness. My dead grandmother.’

PrimalTherapy

patmac wrote: »

Lol at the end when it turns out that by coincidence his sister just happened to live beside the women at the beginning that he had so many hits with. It is also doubtful he went to the toilet when he went into the house a quick scout round the bedrooms for pictures of dead love ones to contact.
He was such a numpty for going on the programme in the first place.
All psychics are frauds and they can sue me if they want. It would be an easy case to defend.
‘I would like to call my first witness. My dead grandmother.’

objection she is appearing at a joe power show in uk

Dave!

Ahh sure, of course Derren is gonna pick the easy target like this! That doesn't mean all psychics are fakes! This one time my sister's mate's cousin had a reading and blah blah blah blah blah........... explain that!