Keith Barry : Brain Hacker

purplecow1977

Did he?! !Which episode?

carraig2

I have been to his shows before. Dunno is he fake or not but I found him entertaining

Dtp1979

They're not fake. They don't pretend to be psychic. They say the opposite. Keith Barry has always said what he does isn't paranormal, it's just entertainment. How many times has he said " free will does not exist " as in I'm basically planting the words in your mouth for this trick but you don't know how I do it

joeyla

Originally Posted by joeyla View Post
It's def plants. Just watched he most recent act on the Late Late. He claims to choose someone at random by writing a number on a notepad then asking members of the audience to guess it.

When he selects his 'plant' in the audience to guess a number, he holds the notepad with both hands as he has a tiny pen/marker ring on his right thumb which he uses to write the number when the 'plant' says it. He even asks the person to shout louder as he didn't hear which gives him more time to finish writing the number.

He used the same technique on a previous appearance on the Late Late show but the camera didn't cut from him quickly enough and he could be seen putting the 'thumb marker' back into his pocket.

It's a bit disingenuous to claim you don't use plants and then blatantly do.

Seen one of his live shows a few years back and the plants were pretty obvious too.

KoolKid wrote: »

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

I wasn't talking about hypnotism. I was talking about his so called 'tricks' using people he's "never met before", as in the one's performed on the Late Late Show and at his shows.

waraf

Aidric wrote: »

None of them can hold a candle to Derek Acorah when it comes to brainwashing a crowd.

I honestly don't think they have brains to wash

Collie D

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Did he?! !Which episode?

A few years ago, think it was something to do with a cruise ship, was only in it for a few minutes IIRC...I actually remember posting on Boards about it now that I think of it...he's definitely not an actor

EDIT: Found it. He played a magician working on a cruise ship

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0793715/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Saint Sonner

I was thinking about goin to this next week. Is it any good? Is it long?

Rasheed

Saint Sonner wrote: »

I was thinking about goin to this next week. Is it any good? Is it long?

I liked it. It's about 2 hours altogether I suppose. I don't know how he does what he does but he's entertaining!

kowloon

WikiHow wrote: »

Or does he....;)

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he was Keith Barry.

Duckjob

ofcork wrote: »

... ,on a related note the company behind irish psychics live has gone bust.

One would wonder if they saw that coming.

Saint Sonner

I booked this for wed night and it would actually suit me better to go on tue night. Is there any way ticketmaster would do a swap for me?

araic88

I was very cynical before but went recently with a friend and I ended up on stage! I certainly wasn't a plant! Luckily it wasn't to be hypnotised. I really enjoyed the show & changed my opinion. I had seen one episode of his tv show (the psychic surgery one) and didn't like it but the live show was cool

Sam Kade

araic88 wrote: »

I was very cynical before but went recently with a friend and I ended up on stage! I certainly wasn't a plant! Luckily it wasn't to be hypnotised. I really enjoyed the show & changed my opinion. I had seen one episode of his tv show (the psychic surgery one) and didn't like it but the live show was cool

So tell us what he used you for?

Dramatik

Ahh Keith Barry, years ago when he was first starting to appear on tv, I spotted him doing "magic" on the street down the quays near Windmill lane. He was stopping people on the street getting them to pick a card or number or something (can't remember exactly now) then he would walk them down the road and onto Windmill lane and the number would have "magically" appeared in spray-paint on the wall.

Basically a guy stood down there with a walkie talkie and and would spray the number on the wall and then stroll around the corner and hide before they came down to the lane :pac:

Sam Kade

Sam Kade wrote: »

So tell us what he used you for?

araic88 still waiting for an answer.

Stainless_Steel

Don't know people get worked up about him being a "fake". Any person with any sort of a logical brain would know that it's all trickery.

He is very skilled at it, and no doubt has had to research and practice his tricks a huge amount. Fair play I say.

Sir Arthur Daley

Sam Kade wrote: »

araic88 still waiting for an answer.

Think he actually got turned into a plant

Lone Stone

Paul mc kenna ftw

Sam Kade

Stainless_Steel wrote: »

Don't know people get worked up about him being a "fake". Any person with any sort of a logical brain would know that it's all trickery.

He is very skilled at it, and no doubt has had to research and practice his tricks a huge amount. Fair play I say.

Did you see the one where he put a gun to his head? It was so stupidly contrived it was more like comedy.