A clairvoyant, who discovered his psychic abilities while working as a hairdresser, is coming to Royston for a special evening.

Steve Holbrook gave up his job as a hairdresser to be a full-time clairvoyant medium, after he began hearing voices of clients’ loved ones that have passed away from behind the salon chair.

Steve said that he was always aware from being a child that life existed beyond the grave, when he awoke to find five soldiers marching through his bedroom – but could only see the top half of them floating through the room.

“This was very unnerving experience, but it was to give me an early glimpse of what was to come,” he said.

“And now it’s as natural as breathing to me.”

Steve started work in Leeds city centre in a busy hairdressing salon, and feels that the years he spent behind the chair, having that personal contact with the customers, stimulated this “rare, yet natural ability” to hear the voices of spirits.

People used to come in and book for their hair cut, and often got more than they bargained for when he passed on a message from their loved one.

Steve said: “I often wonder if they kept coming back for my ability as a hair stylist, or the possibility that they might receive a message from a relative who had passed away!”

He said he now he now gives messages of reassurance to people who have lost their loved ones, and “by communicating with them, helps them understand that life continues, just simply in a different dimension”.

Steve recalled how one lady’s mum came through to her in one of his messages, and said to the daughter: “Don’t forget the brown Prada handbag on Friday.

“The lady replied ‘I’m putting it in my mums coffin on Friday, she only died five days ago’.”

One of Steve’s best friends is former cruiseliner singer and TV personality Jane MacDonald.

Steve said he met Jane in a spiritualist church many years ago, and predicted she would be on the BBC.

He said she didn’t believe it, but the year after it came true, and she was the star of The Cruise.

Steve will appear at Royston’s Market Hill Rooms, on Friday, July 6. Tickets – which cost £12 – can be booked by calling 07759 645360.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start, and funds raised go to the Spiritualist Church.