Joe Power

Power has been active as a stage performer of mediumship since 2004, touring around the UK and Ireland. He also offers one-to-one sessions and readings and courses to allow development and training in psychic powers.

In May 2009, Penguin published his autobiography, entitled "The Man Who Sees Dead People", detailing his early life with his psychic abilities and his brother's murder.

Power appeared as the main subject in the first episode of the first series of the Channel 4 show Derren Brown Investigates, in which Brown 'investigated' his claimed psychic abilities through rewatching his live stage events, sitting in on celebrity readings and orgainsing independent private readings.

One such reading was with Hollyoaks actress Claire Cooper, during which Power asked if Cooper drove a Mini, which she confirmed. However, in Power and Brown's final talk Brown claimed that one of his crew saw Cooper pull up in her car next to Power, implying that this was not a psychic 'hit' as Power claimed, but that he had simply seen the car before. Power denied this on the show, and videos have since been published on a YouTube channel with the screen name 'Joe Power' that state to be recordings of unreleased conversations between Power and Brown that claim to imply Power's innocence and state that "It has been edited to make good TV".

Another feature of the show involved Brown setting up a reading with a non-skeptic, named Ros, but giving her the fake name of 'Pam' and asking Power to meet her in a house that was not her own, supposedly to test Power's psychic abilities by reducing the amount of research he could do beforehand. This reading was shown as being poor in comparison to other readings Power had done earlier in the show. Again, Power claimed that Brown and Objective Productions had acted unfairly towards him, as Brown had met Ros before Power himself had met her.

Power later filed a complaint with Ofcom, stating to the Liverpool Echo: "Originally I was told the programme was going to be called Derren Brown Unexplained and I thought it would be fair... But I was made to feel uncomfortable from the start. I felt like it was an interrogation. The edited version showed me being abusive, but I wasn’t, I was just very annoyed at what they were doing..." Ofcom dismissed this complaint.