Want to feel like Conor McGregor? Keith Barry's show in Clane next week sounds like great fun

Keith Barry is just a week away from bringing his Hypno Magick show to Kildare, and it sounds like it is an event not to be missed.

The famed magician will be in the four-star Westgrove Hotel in Clane on Sunday May 21, and it sounds like the Waterford native has one hell of a show lined up for those who come along next week. His popular tour will take in venues in Louth, Mayo, Wicklow and Wexford over the coming days, and next Sunday's event will be his only stop off in Kildare during his tour.

He gave a little taster of what is to come next weekend when he caught up with KildareNow, and we're certainly looking forward to it.

"It's basically a show of two halves; in the first part I'm implanting thoughts in people's minds, extracting thoughts from people's minds and influencing their behaviour," Barry revealed to KildareNow.

"At one part of the show in the first half I manipulate someone's perception of reality when they think they're feeling an object but they are actually describing a completely different object. They could have an apple in their hands but they are describing a saucepan.

"Then I get everyone in the audience to think of their secret celebrity crushes and I hack into people's brains and reveal those secret celebrity crushes. It's interesting because over the tour we've had people thinking of everyone from Gay Byrne right through to Ann Doyle, all kinds of different people. It's obviously very funny when that happens.

"Then I perform mass hypnosis over the audience where I make the whole audience kind of go temporarily insane for about 10 seconds if you like, because they all start hallucinating. They can't stop it; it doesn't matter if you're a sceptic or a non-believer, they can't stop it from happening," he said.

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There are plenty of people who are nervous about going along to such shows as they are afraid of being called up on stage, but Barry has outlined how this show doesn't revolve around getting unwilling participants out front and centre.

"Some people are nervous when they come to a show like this. I've had some people come to me and say 'I really like what you do, but I'd never come to a show because I don't want to end up on stage'. This particular show, you only come up on stage if you really want to come up on stage, so nobody is forced or coerced to coming up on stage," he said.

In the second half of the show Barry plans on turning the stage in the Westgrove Hotel into an imaginary Octagon, the cage in which UFC fighters such as Conor McGregor scraps it out with his competitors. It all sounds brilliant, though he admitted that people need to be held back from going at each other from time to time.

"The second half is a full hypnosis act where I hypnotise people to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

"For example, I create a UFC fight night on the stage. There's about 20 people hypnotised on stage and I hypnotise one person to be Conor McGregor and another to become his opponent, and you can obviously imagine the hilarity that ensues from ithat. The rest of the people up on stage, they are crazed insane UFC fans," he said.

Keith Barry's live performance takes place next Sunday May 21 at the Westgrove Hotel, Clane, and tickets can be bought for the show here.