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Inspired by 'Your record shop clerk stories', and I'm sure this has been done too. Who's got some goodies? I want to hear from some former bouncers.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 8 December 2002 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

do all of their shirts say staff on the back?

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 8 December 2002 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Was once refused entry for no apparent reason by nightclub staff in Brighton. When pressed for a reason, they offered "just because of the way you are". ??????

I'll admit it, this has troubled me ever since. It's positively existential, and who's to know that these AREN'T the sort of people standing at the gates of Valhalla? Only then I won't have a very good friend bare his ass cheeks at them in my defence. Thanks, paul.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 8 December 2002 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

at the orbit in morley they used to ask where you were from. they didnt let people from liverpool or middlesboro in (which is a bit harsh as they're both about 70 miles away - in opposite directions)

this made us a bit wary about saying we were from bradford, so we always said leeds, and that was no problem

i got strip searched there once too!

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 8 December 2002 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, the guy started physically threatening me because I was trying to LEAVE. Now how often does that happen, eh?

― dave q, Sunday, 8 December 2002 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

On my way in to see the Meteors in Portsmouth, circa '84, the guy at the door hears my american accent: "yanks don't like this music. it's, um ... alterna'ive."

― briania, Monday, 9 December 2002 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing Sebadoh at Tramps, fall of '94. I had spent most of the Bunnybrains' set backstage (to my chagrin), but came up for Sebadoh's set. I came out of the backstage area and stood by the foot of the stage, where there were some steps up, and a security guard with a white baseball cap and a short ponytail sticking out of it. Tara Jane O'Neil (also with backstage pass badge), a good friend of mine at the time, came up and sat on the steps. Security guard dude proceeds to yell at her and grab her off the steps, without asking or being courteous in any way. Tara gets in his face and tells him off. Things settle down. Then the guy turns to me (I guess because, like, I was another guy just standing there or something) and says, "What a bitch." I told him to go fuck himself, or something to that effect.

Needless to say, I'm glad that place is gone.

― hstencil, Monday, 9 December 2002 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing Sebadoh at Tramps, fall of '94.

What the fuck? I was there TOO! At the front of the stage (right side)!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you my long lost twin brother? Chan? A computer?

― hstencil, Monday, 9 December 2002 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yanks don't like this music. it's, um ... alterna'ive.
.. is that a phonetic spelling of an English accent, "alterna- iv" .. or is it a new word, "alternaive" ..? Because if it's a new word, I love it!

I went to a (for lack of better name) hardcore club - mid 80's wearing a Michael Jackson, Beat It! shirt.. The bouncer didn't get the joke...

I was at a really lame tehno club - they had a velvet rope & the hostesses at the door all had clipboards - presumably the guest list. .. They all had a mock-attitude.. We just laughed at them for being such stereotypes.. Went inside & the place was pretty empty - and fucking stupid.. Playing all the music I hated when it was original in the 80's - now somehow it's ultra-hip..?

Anyone here ever go to the Octogon in Chicago? larf!

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Well at my ten year reunion a couple weeks ago I started talking to the bartender who had sort of a feathered mullet. I asked him when he graduated high school and he said 1978. I then proceeded to call him "Foghat" for the rest of the night. He played right along though in good spirit. We talked about 70's music for a long time and muscle cars, I think I made his night.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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