Peter Powers normally does a few weekends twice a year (usually February and July) at the Glasgow Pavilion Theatre. Time's being what they are the theatre invited him back for a one-off weekend in October (presumably because they know his shows will fill the theatre). Given that you cannot see a hypno show for love nor money in London I decided at the last minute to make the trek up North - and didn't regret it!

The actual shows themselves were a little disappointing in terms of routines as they were for the most part well-established routines that he has used extensively in the past and some of the interesting routines he'd introduced in the July/August shows this year did not unfortunately make a reappearance. However, and this is crucial for any good stage show, he really had fantastic volunteers for both the 7.30 pm show and the much wilder 'midnight madness' show.

Regarding the routines... He had a routine where a guy was in a tent and when the lights were dimmed he'd think it was night time and he'd go to the front of the stage, drop his trousers, squat to do a sh*t and then be horrified when the lights came on. This was done 3 times and one time he was squatting so long I thought he really was going to poo but thankfully nothing came out.

He also had the subjects thinking they were at a party and drinking. He told three of the guys that when a certain piece of music would come on they would moon the audience. One of the guys got really turned on and started slapping the other guy's bare bum. What amazed me was the mooning occurred in the first half (which is usually the clean part of the show) and guys were still coming up to volunteer in the second half, fully aware that Powers had got some of the subjects to bare their bums in the first half. I don't know whether they don't care about ending up naked or whether they actually think that they won't allow Powers to get them naked. Anyway, there were a couple of quite good looking guys who volunteered for the second half and I thought, I can't believe these guys don't realise they're gonna get their kit off at the end of the show.

At the end when the Full Monty skit happened I think Powers must have whispered something to the subjects because normally when guys strip, they take everything off but cover their dicks with their hands. He usually tells them to strip as quickly as they can. However, this time he told them to take their time and tease the audience. So the strip lasted a good 7 or 8 minutes (instead of the usual 30 seconds) and most of the guys when they stripped off turned to face the audience and waved their dicks about. It was ironic because earlier one of the good looking guys had got annoyed when he found himself without his shirt on earlier in the show after doing a dance to some music and yet at the end of the show he's prancing about naked, waving his dick about, happy as anything. Goes to show the power of hypnosis.

I think I realise why Powers is able to get his subjects to be so outrageous. I didn't realise it at the time but some of the other tists from the hypno site told me (when we saw his show together in August) that various skits that Powers uses are actually deepeners so that as the show progresses he is making sure that the subjects end up very deeply hypnotised. I think he is unique amongst stage hypnotists because he genuinely tries to ensure that everyone on stage is hypnotised. I read a book recently by another stage hypnotist and he said that he was happy just to have one volunteer hypnotised and rely on the others just to play along.

As you can see from the photo on this page I think it is safe to say both the guys on display were fully hypnotised...