[jaysay]

I worked as a bouncer for 10 years on and off, mostly for the Bailly organisation who owned the Cavendish in Blackburn, I also worked at the Mecca, Anobells in Burnley and Marthone Grange, but most of the time for Bailly's. They used to give their staff training and their idea was use your mouth not your fists, use your fist only has a last resort and it worked for me. I did work for a lot of the time on back stage security, making sure that the artists were safe and things ran smoothly. I had some great times and was frequently in the dressing rooms with some top line stars, the best was Tommy Cooper, a full week at a laugh a minute, others were Lynn Paul, Carl Wayne (ex The Move, a real gent) Bernard Manning and a lot of top american groups. I once had a day out with Georgie Fame, we spent the afternoon locked in the Victoria up Manchest road Accy. So I had lots of good memeries of being a bouncer (por doorman as we liked to be called in those days, and thankfully not too many bad ones