I find most alright. You'd have to be either steaming drunk or just an utter twat to get trouble from most in my experience. The guy at the link below used to work the door of Revolution in Swansea. As gay as he looks, your average bloke isn't going to **** about with someone who looks like this... http://youtube.com/watch?v=pJJwx1O5HsI
I was on approx £360-400 a week when I was on the door full time. Its good money but you don't really make too many friends.
To be honest, If I was obliged to pick a fight with a bouncer, I would choose this guy over a little guy every time. There's not so much shame in getting your arse kicked by a giant..
little guys have to prove they are good at their job to retain it.... Most big guys can't fight or speak articulately... but there are some exceptions.
When I worked the doors in Portsmouth there were a few guys on steroids but nobody would work with them as they were too unpredictable.Most of the guys I worked with were fine and would rather talk people round than give them a kicking.On a less serious note a mate and I got the contract to do security for a squash club that ran disco's friday and sat night we got 100 quid a night each (in 1989) and more women than we knew what to do with the only problem was they let us drink when we worked one new years eve.It ended up me and mate fighting each other while legless him literally as when I threw a punch at him he fell over while his foot was stuck under a speaker cable.After he got out of hospital niether him or his wife talked to me for months my missus dumped me and I had to pay the club a couple of hundred damages. So although my point was that most bouncers are ok I was obviously a twat.
Morning gents Although I'm on this site all the time I've never posted before, but I felt I had to make a comment about bouncers in Leeds in Liverpool. I'm from Leeds and have lived in Liverpool so feel fairly well placed to comment. The bouncers in Liverpool, in my experience, are ****ing scary. They always seem to hunt in big packs and won't think twice about taking some poor drunk nomark round the back for a severe kicking. I've also heard that most of them work for one of two firms that are run by some of the big gangster families in Liverpool, which doesn't bode well. The bouncers in Leeds, and you can only generalise about these things and go on your own experience, seem to be a bit better, although I did see a woman get smashed in the face by one of the bouncers in Yate's on Boar Lane.
I often find Leeds bouncers too heavy handed, though the Boar Lane incident in one I have heard of. Up the top end of town they tend to be ok, with a few exceptions, whilst at the bottom end it is vice versa.
My experience- Doorstaff in Liverpool 10 years ago were a greater threat on your night out than the people they were meant to protect you from. They were hired thugs working for gangsters who would punch anybody above 5' 1'' on the slimest pretext. I can honestly say that there were bars where I would rather take my chances with five scallies who wanted to kick my head in than have them break it up. The liscencing scheme was brought in for a reason and it was long overdue. I went to Bristol a year later (long before the liscencing scheme) and was surprised to find all the doormen verry profesional and courteous.