Simon Peters - Coventry



SIMON PETERS -"An Evening of Clairvoyance" by Kay Folwell
23 March 2007		Well my Husband and I took the plunge, after my decision never to see a Famous stage Medium again... I could break this rule as this guy was in a hotel in my home town, Coventry, and he certainly is not famous!!. We arrived at 7.30pm and went into a hotel that I thought would be a little posh, but it was not...It was very bland and the parking was a joke. Where do I start? Was it the lovely presence of the audience members I was chatting to in the queue about the horrid parking arrangements? Or meeting Simon Peters on the door, asking if I had booked in advance? Well bugger me, he did not ask about the name I had booked in! Sorry here but I feel I had been rumbled!! There was some kind of grid reference on a white sheet of paper but due to lack of chairs in the room, we had to go and collect our own. After finding two chairs myself and my Husband went into the conference room and placed our seats near to the back of the room. I had the distinct feeling he knew who I was, don't ask me why. This guy watched me and Hubby - everywhere we went, he kept staring at us. After listening to ruddy Enya for what seemed an age, finally at 8.05pm we had word the lovely Mr Simon Peters would be making an appearance. Yippee I thought, I cannot wait for this!!. Dressed in a black shirt and black jeans, not so much bling as Derek Acorah (oh there was a mention about his love of Derek within the show but that's later) but a mere hint.
I am sorry to say the show got off to a bad start. He kept tapping this box in his back pocket, and then chatting to his so called guide (I say so called because the guy sounded pretty oddball to say the least) but my Husband had observed at the rear of the room, an assistant who was tapping the audience microphone. Was this spirit communication? I don’t think so!		Simon Peters wittered on about Fakes and cons for ages, he kept reiterating that he was not a con nor a fake medium and went onto to tell us all about examples of how a fake medium would speak to the audience. We had a full explanation as why he no longer used a microphone he took everywhere up and down the country. He had taken it to many repair shops because of an interference on the receiver and he could not explain this, each visit to the repair shop cost £80, so he bought a new system costing £450 and still he gets interference, telling us it was spirit communication that made the microphone not work. We counted the audience, which was mainly women of all ages, and the odd bloke who maybe was dragged along for the evening, at being around 120. Simon Peter's went on to say that 40 had pre booked and 80 turned up on the off chance, he seemed pleased. He said to everyone if the microphone a large big black thing that contains batteries " oh yes girls you know what I mean" he said! (how rude I thought), he said "put it up to your mouth and speak clearly as I need to hear your voice vibration (jeeze this guy is full of it). Peters encouraged us to take pictures as he said over his right shoulder would reveal spirit lights, well I took loads of pictures, but not one spirit light. The only spirits in that hotel that night was behind the bar. This guy is so trying to act like Derek Acorah with sayings like "With respect" and gestures of hands together in a praying position. I also heard references to Colin Fry's type of banter also. Personally I feel this guy has never even been on a podium or entered a spiritualist church in his life. He has no concept of the way you do readings; he is rude, brash and definitely no medium. This guy has either a speech impediment or he has a bad cough; he coughs a lot mid-sentence. Peters is an armchair medium, he has learned his ‘art’ from the Television not through years of spiritualist churches, open circles or closed circles, or if he has, he shows none of these attributes. He said he has a friend called Derek who is the worst fraudster he knew. We then looked a little shocked by what he said but he went onto say "No, not Derek Acorah, I mean another Derek. He is a very bad medium and does my Tarot cards for me. He is awful" He then said he had a very good reading from Derek once and he had that reading on his website for three years. To me Simon Peters has studied Derek Acorah, Colin Fry, and other stage mediums, but badly. He went on about Mediums and fakes for over 30 minutes. By 8.35pm I was losing the will to live, when lo and behold the readings began. I am recalling this from memory as the voice recorder did not pick up Simon Peters’ voice too well. So with help from my Husband this is what happened.
Reading 1		Simon Peters said that he needed to be with a very pretty young lady with blond hair sitting to the left of the room near to the front. He wishes to be sitting on her knee, and he asks his assistant to pass her the microphone... He asks her "I have a man with me, he is older than you he is above you so maybe a Father figure? He died of Lung disease, but I feel he had multiple organ failure. She kind of nodded that some of it was true but when asked to just say yes, or no, or don't know, it was just "I don't know." Peters then said he sends his love to you and to the three. He also said he died on a Tuesday and was buried on a Friday indicating this with his fingers, why I don't know - was it some kind of weird Makaton or sign language? He left his love with this woman. The reading was around 4 minutes, the quickest reading I have seen so far, he must be the quick draw reader of the century.
Reading 2		Peters goes swiftly on to his second reading, saying "I need to come to you" to a gentleman on an aisle seat. "I am being told to sit on your knee, yes I am definitely with you," and he walks up to the man. He tells him that he sees a young man aged 18-25; he died in a motorbike accident; he hit a car and died at the scene. The man says "No, I don't know" Simon Peter's then says "You do know this lad, he is telling me he died at the scene." The gentleman says "I don't know" Peters then asked the audience if anyone knew who he was talking about. A lady at the back of the room puts her hand up. He walks to the lady and says "Can you take this lad," and the lady replies " Some of it I can." Peters then went on to do these weird hand signals again, and said "He died on a Tuesday, buried on a Friday and it was raining." The woman did not know when this lad died or was buried, and by then Simon Peters has this crackling going on again with his microphone, yet again blaming spirit communication. He then leaves this lady after about 8 minutes.
Reading 3		Well this one is going to get better - NOT! Peters comes to our side of the room to the right. He says he has a man with him around 60; he had a clot on the brain that killed him. No one can take this man. He points to a woman at the back of us, and the assistant gives her a microphone. Peters says to the woman that she knows this man with the brain problem, but the lady says she cannot take this man/boy; the one she was looking for was much younger, age 21.. Peters then goes to lie on the floor at the front talking away to his guide. Then we hear the immortal words "When in doubt go to see the big fat hairy guy"! He makes a bee line for my Husband! Now my Husband is a big bloke - 6ft 2" and built like a brick sh*t-house. Peters states he wants to sit on his knee (not bloody likely I thought) and he says to my Husband "Can you take this man with the blood clot?" My Husband replies, "Yes" (he lost a friend 6 years ago to an aneurysm in his stomach - nothing to do with the brain). Simon Peters was insistent that this man was in his 60's, knows my Husband, which is funny as he was supposed to have known the lady behind us as well! Peters says his friend was with him and sends love to the two children, indicating they are small children, but our children are grown up!! Peters also says he is with the dog that yaps and barks a lot, but my Husband’s friend never had a dog in his life. Peters then dries up, says to my Husband to watch out for the lights in our home, as his friend plays with the electrics. Is this guy for real? I don't think so!
We had a break - it was a long break as I had to move my car from a parking space under the hotel, then we queued at the bar for drinks. The best bit was when Simon Peters went to get extra ice and water for himself, and jumping the queue. The barman said "Get in the queue and wait like the rest of them!" That gave me a chuckle. We all start to go back to the room after a break of roughly half an hour. Finally the readings began again at 9.40pm after yet another rendition of Enya. By now I think the audience had twigged he was not the real deal. Personally he lost me way back in the first half. I had gone with an open mind, but on viewing this man in this show, it was becoming farcical. .
Reading 4		This time he says he will get the times of death and also when they last saw their friends. He walks to the back of the room and returns to the front. He seems to be conversing with his guide, then turning towards the audience says "23.08 what does that mean?" We all shouted "11.08 pm" He then says he is drawn to sit on the knee of the lady sitting next to my Husband. She takes the microphone from the assistant. Simon Peters asks "Do you know who passed at this time?” She says "I think so." He then says "two zero, two zero, zero zero. Do you know what this means?" We all shouted "It's 8 pm", and the woman nods her head. Peters then says that the Gentleman figure above her, a father figure, died at either 11.17 pm or 8 pm ??? We were all confused at this point - initially 11.08. He looks worried as he realised he could not remember what times he has said. The woman said if the times were correct it was not a man it was a woman, and there were three in her family who had passed that could be relevant too, but she thought on the whole it was not correct. He asked her at the end of this reading "Were you happy with the reading??" She said "Not really".
He then turned his sights on her poor Husband, and said "When you were younger you had a canary. The canary tells me it was to be buried. I see tins of baked beans in a bin. Oh dear, you did not bury the canary! You put it in the bin?" The man looked puzzled, and Peters said, "When you come out of the house in the morning, and you find bird poop on your car, it's the canary’s revenge!" The man looked like he was going to laugh, but thought better of it. This had to be the first time I have heard a message from a canary. Simon Peters then said that although it sounded funny he had a reading for someone a week before who had flushed her goldfish down the toilet because she supposed it was dead. He said the goldfish was alive and swimming around in the pipework.
Reading 5		Peters comes to a young lady in the front of the audience, and says he wish he had a reading for her because she looked desperate for a reading. He said he would try later to come back and give her one! Oh dear, another bad joke. He then goes on to say he has a young lad with him who hung himself; his feet were off the floor. He asks "Can anyone take him?" He looks at a young girl on the third row, who clearly knew someone who had hanged themselves. He says to her "He hung himself off a banister." but she looks puzzled. He wittered on a bit more, drawing in the air the initials ST. He says “Do you know a ST like Steve, or Stu?” She looks at him, and indicates she knows no one with those initials.
		A couple of girls are giggling by now, and Peters says to them "Have you ever suffered a house eviction?" They looked at each other and said "No." He replied, "You keep talking when I'm talking, and I’ll kick you out of here, and you'll have to pay £12 each to get back in!"
I have never experienced such a rude, ignorant man before. By this time it was 10.05 pm. so I said to my Husband “I’m off! I can't sit listening to this rubbish any more!” With that I got up and left with my Husband. We had endured this man and his NON-mediumship for the best part of two hours, if you could call it that. This guy is fleecing people out of their hard-earned money. The tickets cost us £24 for two of us, and what a load of rubbish we got for our money. As a spiritualist he is no more than a fraud! One thing I have learnt though is that some mediums are genuine, but this guy is something else. I urge you not to waste your money on these charlatans, but check out a Spiritualist Church. The readings are free and any donations that are given go to run the church. Well in summary the night was like something from Phoenix Nights. I was half expecting Brian Potter to come through the doors with another stage act, "Clinton Baptiste". If you have never seen this episode of Phoenix Nights have a look at it, and you’ll see exactly what it was like.
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