However we might dress it up, bouncers and doormen are ultimately there for one thing – in case there’s trouble. And they didn’t always have the training or level or professionalism they have now.

In this excerpt, three bouncers at The Music Machine in Camden Town show the training they put themselves through, discuss the new concept of being registered for the work, and talk frankly about the philosophy of a job that might end in violence on any given night.


Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 12 March 1979.




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