Fermanagh Live Committee Members Terry McCartney, Nicholas Watts, Evelyn Hassard, Mentalist, David Meade, Rolf Knapp and Rosemary Watts.
ONE of the main attractions of this year’s Fermanagh Live festival, taking place in October, is a performance from BBC star, David Meade, a ‘mentalist’ who is known for his hit TV shows including ‘The David Meade Project’ and ‘David Meade Make Believe’.
Speaking to the Fermanagh Herald at the launch of Fermanagh Live on Saturday night, David spoke of his excitement at performing in the county for the first time.
“I’ve been trying to do this festival for two – three years now actually. I was originally booked to do it last year, but then for diary reasons and things it didn’t work. Sot this time they booked me about 12 months ahead to make sure that we got it, so I’m really really delighted,” he said.
David previously filmed here as part of a TV series, something that he remembers fondly.
“We filmed here for the series last year, and we’ll be filming this year coming. We filmed up at the agricultural college, and we got a load of farmers and there job was to lie to me.
“They say themselves that they’re known for exaggerating. So I got a load of farmers in the room and my jobs was to tell if they were lying or telling the truth, It was brilliant craic.”
One of the aspects of David’s show includes an opportunity for the audience to lie to him, where they can win £1000.
“The reason I started doing what I’m doing now is because I was so interested in physic ability. So I spent around 5 – 6 years learning how they did what they did. So I’m using the same techniques as them.
“In this show in October, I’ll be telling strangers – their pin numbers, their first kiss, who they sat beside at school. Genuine secrets that there’s no way that I could know.
“The other thing I’ll probably do in the show is a live game of Russian roulette. We get a spike that’s used for a tent. And someone will put that wherever they like, put it under one of five polystyrene cups. My job is to work out which one its under by telling if they’re lying or telling the truth. I’ll be slamming my hand down on the ones I think are safe.”
Acknowledging that ‘nobody gets embarrassed or mortified’, David described his live show as ‘interactive’.
“The first five minutes you see people going ‘Aw don’t pick me’, but they realise that I’m not going to make a balloon out of them – and you start seeing hands go up.
“It’s always in the spirit of good fun,” he added.
David will perform on October 5 in the Ardhowen, and tickets go on sale today.
“I’m really interested to see how it sells over here.
“We’ve sold out in previous runs, so it’ll be brilliant to bring it here. Apparently it’s a lovely theatre, I haven’t been in it before. I cannot wait.”
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