What's you opinion on or experience with, nightclub security?

Attracts a lot of aggressive knuckle-heads. Most do be grand but there does be like 20% with an agenda especially the more local nightclubs

I'm too old now for this to be an issue, bouncers always just say "howya" and let me in.

In my younger days though I can't recall any serious aggro. Naturally if you get randomly refused with "not tonight lads" or "you're too pissed", you end up thinking, "Your man is a bit of a prick", but in hindsight they have a few hundred people coming into a place and they're doing their best to filter the crowd to keep everyone safe inside. So mistakes will be made. They're not mind readers and most of them are only young themselves.

I've never hung around with anyone who becomes an angry drunk, so have never come to clash with bouncers inside, and if any of us got completely hammered we always had the good sense to leave before we got fvcked out anyway. A nod from the bouncer; "Is he alright? He can't sleep there" was the typical signal to GTFO.

Terry on the door of Bruxelles (he must be retired now) was always a sound man. He'd refuse you but tell you to come back next week. He barred a mate of mine, but only for month. And he wasn't ****ty about it. When he tried to get in the response was, "Howya, you're still barred, come back in two weeks".

The only time I've seen bouncers getting into scraps was with drunken idiots who decided to start ****. That's not to say many bouncers don't go over the top when someone decides to start on them, but I've never seen bouncers be the ones to start a fight.

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I've never argued with one. "Sorry lads, not tonight" is sufficient. You're not going to change their mind by arguing. I did however get a Not Tonight, politely said "OK, no problem" and they called us back and said go on in :pac:

I once got told "You can't come in, you look like you've had a few already". I told him I look like this all the time, and he laughed and let me in.

seamus wrote: »

I'm too old now for this to be an issue, bouncers always just say "howya" and let me in.

In my younger days though I can't recall any serious aggro. Naturally if you get randomly refused with "not tonight lads" or "you're too pissed", you end up thinking, "Your man is a bit of a prick", but in hindsight they have a few hundred people coming into a place and they're doing their best to filter the crowd to keep everyone safe inside. So mistakes will be made. They're not mind readers and most of them are only young themselves.

I've never hung around with anyone who becomes an angry drunk, so have never come to clash with bouncers inside, and if any of us got completely hammered we always had the good sense to leave before we got fvcked out anyway. A nod from the bouncer; "Is he alright? He can't sleep there" was the typical signal to GTFO.

Terry on the door of Bruxelles (he must be retired now) was always a sound man. He'd refuse you but tell you to come back next week. He barred a mate of mine, but only for month. And he wasn't ****ty about it. When he tried to get in the response was, "Howya, you're still barred, come back in two weeks".

The only time I've seen bouncers getting into scraps was with drunken idiots who decided to start ****. That's not to say many bouncers don't go over the top when someone decides to start on them, but I've never seen bouncers be the ones to start a fight.

It definitely happens, some bullies are attracted to the job because they see it as an easy way to bully people and attack them. I know of someone who was let go from a few bouncer jobs because he was such a person. You get bad apples in every job.

seamus wrote: »

Ah I've no doubt. Plenty of lads out there itching for a fight. And being a bouncer not only guarantees you get into a couple of scrapes, but you won't get fired for it either.
And they probably then set out to antagonise someone into a fight rather than trying to calm the situation down.

They do get fired for it though, proper bouncers don't want to work with lads like that and decent pub/club owners don't want their bouncers starting fights and bullying customers.

All my experiences with bouncers go back to the 90s.
I've never had a physical altercation with a bouncer but I was constantly refused entry to clubs for having the wrong shoes, for not wearing a shirt, for having long hair, for having short hair, for wearing boots, for being drunk - you name it, I was refused entry for it.

However, on several occasions, I did see bouncers behaving like utter violent scumbags. Say a guy being dragged backwards by the neck from a club while another bouncer repeatedly punched him in the face.

I saw a guy dragged down an alleyway by four or five bouncers and the alleyway blocked off. The guy came out extremely battered.

I actually saw a young bouncer get "blooded". The older guys actually rubbed blood on his face after a violent altercation.

I do not hold security staff in high regard, generally.

Everlee Wailing Mattress wrote: »

Redbox - is that still open?

I vaguely remember being in here, far too long ago, though no recollection of how I got there it where it was.

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Where is it?

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Or where was it?

Last club I was in was District 8, which is closed too. I'd be worried I was some sort of harbinger of doom for nightclubs, but they're all being closed to make way for office blocks and hotels whether I go there or not.

can't wait for the follow-up thread, "nightclub attenders"

bnt wrote: »

Another time I was dragged to one (Sachs Hotel in D4, IIRC), and the bouncer told me I couldn't come in because of my shoes. So I told the other guys "bye, see you at work next week", and the bouncer changed his tune. "OK, you can come in."

The guy just wanted to ruin your night, didn’t care how. Mission accomplished.