Digital Door Picking

I dont despise digital , I just don't feel the club itself has much soul/atmosphere

and I am against the blanket marketing advertsing techniques that they use to swamp town with

this does not mean I could not do an objective job and weed out the gimps who are threatening the long term reputation of their club nights

I was planning on going to coxy, then again.....

You're always fucking whinging.

What would you say was an appropriate dress code for Digital?

Jeans and a t-shirt?

Shirt, trousers and shoes?

I'm not sure how someone dresses necessarily makes them unsuitable for a club. I agree with you to an extent because in some cases yes it's completely blatant they’re a charv. But how can you be sure you're judgement is bang on when they could genuinely be there to appreciate the music.

Personally, it's all down to experience. No-one here could do it right first time and make the perfect crowd. Digital USED to be spot on crowd wise when it first opened, from my experience and people comments on THIS board over recent months, it just seems that the crowd has turned slightly - whether thats external factors OR a change in the door policy - thats the question. i think with the change in ownership that happened, people put it down to the new managerment wanting more people thru the doors

im a digital regular get me on the door letting people in and refuseing others or let me have one of them ear piece's and inform the door staff who is doing what and who should be kicked out

Surely getting various people doing it different weeks will create inconsistency anyway....

Why not just employ a proper door picker like they do at other clubs & also a dress code for certain nights - then employ extra staff inside the club to monitor any weapons and get them straight out if needed.

Earpieces are absolutly useless working in a club atmosphere and you can barely hear fuck all.

Just a combination of good door supervisors, who have alot of experience on working on the door. Being sensible and using common sense on who you let in.

you could have a club full of students, rahs, diehard clubbers etc and still have a big kick off.

Every time ive been in Digital there hasnt been any fights at all. Was at Gods for Oakenfold and the place was riddled with Charvers. was there all night and there wasnt any bother at all (from what i seen anyhow)

Clothes dont make someone a cunt, dress codes are a shit idea for any club.

Having untrained people off the Nucastle message board on the door isnt really going to solve any problems either is it although I admire that yous are trying to sort stuff out.

Like I said before, one of the best tactics I have seen is at the Sub Club where they ask you questions about who is playing , what kind of music you are into, where you've been before the club etc. Works a treat and Glasgow is much rougher than Newcastle.

Obviously SubClub is smaller so they can be choosier about who they let in but if Digital want to get rid of their increasing reputation then these measures might be necessary in the short term to get the long term benefit.

Small things like greeters at the door rather than being herded through make a world of difference. if you want people to respect their environment then give them something to respect.

Plus like Danny said, put more trained people inside as long as they don't stand there looking like the Gestapo.

Lol i was once out with work for someones leaving do and we all went round sheilds, i was wearing jeans , t shirt and trainers whilst 2 of the lads from work were wearing shoes, trousers and shirts and we attempted to go clubbing in shields but i got knocked back for being to casually dressed so we jumped in a taxi through to newcastle and headed to digital, think it was wax on that nite and we got right to the front and the doorman let me through and knocked my 2 m8s back for being overdressed !!!

We ended up in fucking blu-bambu :evil:

we know your a cunt we just take pity on you

to be honest me and scott have already been tackling this issue for the last few months anyway at Shindig..

There are a few "townies" get in , but for the majority I would say its usually ok, not much different to Foundation crowd wise..

Like any city centre saturday night we have had incidents.. but from what I hear from door people there are incidents like this all over the city every week.. clubs/drink/young people cause this, no avoiding it..

I can't speak for any other nights, but we do actively stand on the door as much as we can.

All we can do is wean out the obvious ones and hope there is no camouflaged ones slip the net lol

and that's the last I'm going to say on it as I'm fucking bored of talking about it.. we have and will be doing what we can at Shindig.. so ner ner ner

recent visits of mine to digital the crowd control is chaos - worse was goodgreef. the 'hold pen' for smokers when u come out of room 3 is mental - total bottle neck but it happens everytime. Same with the queues - which is pay on door/queue jumpers/guestlist/tickets. it's like there's no plan in place and it's decided last minute on the ground

i thinks daves point is to invite some of the people who complain all the time to come down and see 1st hand what goes on and how hard it is actually keep on top of it.