Keith Barry : Brain Hacker

Sir Arthur Daley

KoolKid wrote: »

I've been to his show before with friends who were hypnotised... Were they all plants as well?

I think so, you need to get real friends

Jesus Wept

He is beyond awful.

KoolKid

Don't think so. I've been to lots of these shows.
Are you honesty suggesting everyone is a Plant?
Not practical IMO.

Sir Arthur Daley

KoolKid wrote: »

Are you honesty suggesting everyone is a Plant?

Yes, soap operas are not real either.

stop animal cruelty

jesus this has gone down hill fast

Sir Arthur Daley

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

jesus this has gone down hill fast

That is gravity for you, it might build pressure yet.

obezyana

Iv worked at many of his shows and there is no plants he has two of his own guys out sussing out select people asking them what appear to be just normal having a chat kinda questions then they pick out the ones that have the potential to be susceptible to his as Keith himself says "deception"

To be fair he does say he doesn't have any powers he does tell people he is out to deceive them and if people think he has magical powers then fool for them it is after all just entertainment and Keith is good at what he does go watch his live shows with an open mind (pardon the pun) and you will be entertained.

Keith Barry's skills and shows are actually ok but his stupid looking head and face held him back from making it big.

Sir Arthur Daley

obezyana wrote: »

Iv worked at many of his shows and there is no plants he has two of his own guys out sussing out select people asking them what appear to be just normal having a chat kinda questions then they pick out the ones that have the potential to be susceptible to his as Keith himself says "deception"

To be fair he does say he doesn't have any powers he does tell people he is out to deceive them and if people think he has magical powers then fool for them it is after all just entertainment and Keith is good at what he does go watch his live shows with an open mind (pardon the pun) and you will be entertained.

I want whatever you are smoking, imagination is wonderful, i think we are getting plants mixed up.

stop animal cruelty

glasso wrote: »

Keith Barry's skills and shows are actually ok but his stupid looking head and face held him back from making it big.

ah now he has a good looking face, l would anyway

obezyana

WikiHow wrote: »

I want whatever you are smoking, imagination is wonderful, i think we are getting plants mixed up.

Thanks I'll send ya some. You seem like you need something to lighten up.

Sir Arthur Daley

obezyana wrote: »

Thanks I'll send ya some. You seem like you need something to lighten up.

No im on the ball thanks, i dont smoke anything illegal.

obezyana

WikiHow wrote: »

No im on the ball thanks, i dont smoke anything illegal.

Your posts suggest otherwise.

Sir Arthur Daley

obezyana wrote: »

Your posts suggest otherwise.

We cant discuss anything illegal here.

stop animal cruelty

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

ah now he has a good looking face, l would anyway

Just not Hollywood enough...

SugarShane88

I don't like him for a multitude of reasons, but none more so than the fact - and it is a fact - that he is an astoundingly immoral human being.

I was rather disturbed and upset to see him 'contact the dead' with two willing participants live on the Late Late Show last year without telling them that the trick was complete bullsh*t.

Some of you will be familiar with the method of cold reading, a trick employed by pretty much every psychic in the entire world to fool people into believing that they know intimate details about their punter.

Well, Barry uses the same technique in his trick. "You're concerned about finances Mary, is this right?". It's a recession, and she's wearing rip-off Adidas tracksuit bottoms. "You have lost a loved one in your life Mary, is this right?". Mary is a 64-year-old woman. "Would I be right in saying it's been a while since you've had the ride, Mary?". Mary is also about 23 stone. You get the idea.

Anyways, so he uses this technique on a woman who has indeed lost a very close member of her family. I think her son may have died at a young age, which makes what he does far, far worse because he's playing with real-life issues here. He does that thing with his eyeballs that The Undertaker does and pretends he is speaking directly to this woman's deceased son in heaven, and passing on false messages. "Mary, he wants you to know that he is at peace." She starts balling her eyes out on national television based on the information that Keith Barry sends her.

He benefits from the grief of women like Mary and does not tell them that what he is doing is complete bullsh*t. This is what seperates him from the classier people such as Derren Brown, who often puts emphasis on the fact that he has no mind-reading ability, which he tells people before he starts to 'read' their mind or speak to dead relatives. It's all an act, yet Barry keeps tight-lipped on this fact.

Scumbag.

Sir Arthur Daley

He is not cool.

Vomit

I remember Derren Brown- he presented magic in a new way, with a 'psychological' slant, and for a while had me going. I believed Derren was some kind of master psychological trickster and manipulator.

And then Keith Barry came along and ruined everything. He ripped off Derren Brown's whole act, right down to the last detail of his television programmes and presentation. I mean sure, we know it's all magic, but at least Derren Brown was fun to watch and was good at what he did. But Keith Barry probably has exactly half Derren Brown's IQ, class and talent. How can Derren continue his act when this other cheap imitator gives the game away that it's all cheap magic tricks. If KB can learn this stuff, anyone can.

Keith Barry, Garth Brooks....wtf is wrong with people!?

Vomit

Oh and the other thing that gets to me about him is that he's the perfect vehicle for people who think they are smart to lecture others about the 'inside scoop' they have on "Neuro Linguistic Programming" and other such nonsense.

"Ahh, ya see it's not that he has magic powers-- he's influencing ya wi his physcology stuff!"

No, it's just cheap children's magic tricks. Sorry.

purplecow1977

Anyone have any links to performances where he might have slipped up?
I'm intrigued by him, curious, but very cynical. I don't understand though how people haven't come forward and admitted to being a plank.

stop animal cruelty

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Anyone have any links to performances where he might have slipped up?
I'm intrigued by him, curious, but very cynical. I don't understand though how people haven't come forward and admitted to being a plank.

l did come across a video bout 2 years ago....will have a look

Sir Arthur Daley

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Anyone have any links to performances where he might have slipped up?
I'm intrigued by him, curious, but very cynical. I don't understand though how people haven't come forward and admitted to being a plank.

If you go to any of his shows you will see them, the one show i had to endure was full of them.

stop animal cruelty

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Anyone have any links to performances where he might have slipped up?
I'm intrigued by him, curious, but very cynical. I don't understand though how people haven't come forward and admitted to being a plank.

Cant find the clip on you tube, l think it was performed in america a few years ago and something to do with a box, but there was a camera on him from the side and you could see whatever the feck he was doing was not magic.....it was a lie. lt made me think twice about him, but lm curious about how he can read peoples minds, weather its something arranged before hand or not l dont know....but l do think he has some kind of "power" or whatever you'd like to call it :P

purplecow1977

WikiHow wrote: »

If you go to any of his shows you will see them, the one show i had to endure was full of them.

I've been to 3 of his shows!!!!!!!!!! Not the most observant though!

summerloving

Everything is done exactly how he accomplished the psychic surgery on his Brain Hacker show. He sort of let the cat out of the bag. He is talented but it is a huge one trick that works with most things.

purplecow1977

summerloving wrote: »

Everything is done exactly how he accomplished the psychic surgery on his Brain Hacker show. He sort of let the cat out of the bag. He is talented but it is a huge one trick that works with most things.

I must have missed something!

Donaldio

I really like him or find him very interesting but in fairnes there is no reason why anyone should use words like magic, physic or medium because as far as i am aware he does not claim to be any of those things. As far as i know he describes himself as a "mentalist".

I dont think they are paid stooges but i do think it could be done with sugestion and hypnosis. The human mind process tones of information all the time that we are hardly aware of its like when they say we only use small percentage of our brain. So for instance if he askes someone to think of a number or a colour he will have already have told or suggested to them exactly which number or colour to think of already albiet in a very subtle way.

Donaldio

Right so watch the trick at about seven muintes in here he askes a guy to point out with his finger a seemingly random word on a newspaper but notice he uses very similar words himself pointing to the newspaper and speaking to guy just before.
Anyway i like him.

KoolKid

Sure hasn't he told us all before......
"It's not magic, it's just smart! "

Badly Drunk Boy

glasso wrote: »

Just not Hollywood enough...

It's not exactly Hollywood, but he appeared in an episode of CSI:Miami. Imagine him and Horatio hanging out together. What a beautiful world that would be...