Brixton chitter-chatter and news - May 2012

[editor]

If you go to the Dogstar you'll have to take photo ID which is scanned in before you're allowed entry.

 

[editor]

This is where I got the information from Onket, sorry: http://www.market-house.co.uk/

I want to be a 'tropical deejay'.
Even managing to be a 'topical deejay' would be a start.

 

[Orang Utan]

If you go to the Dogstar you'll have to take photo ID which is scanned in before you're allowed entry.

As if it wasn't offputting enough already

 

[Badgers]

If you go to the Dogstar you'll have to take photo ID which is scanned in before you're allowed entry.

Madness. I had to do that at a club once. Only photo id I had was my passport

Think at the Dogstar this is a licensing thing?

 

[colacubes]

If you go to the Dogstar you'll have to take photo ID which is scanned in before you're allowed entry.

Heard a rumour about this. Tbh it'll stop me going there if I have to do that. I'm not carting my driving licence and passport round with me on a night out, and I don't have any other photo ID.

 

[editor]

Madness. I had to do that at a club once. Only photo id I had was my passport

Think at the Dogstar this is a licensing thing?

Let's just say that it wasn't exactly their idea.

I don't carry any ID out with me, neither do I want to. Luckily, I know the staff there so it's not a problem for me, but if it catches on there'll be loads of places I won't be going to in the future.

 

[editor]

As if it wasn't offputting enough already

Dogstar's alright in the week. Late opening, free to get in and usually a lively crowd.

 

[Orang Utan]

What kind of photo ID do they expect people to carry around with them? And what is the use of it anyway? Do they keep a record of customers in case of trouble?

 

[Orang Utan]

Dogstar's alright in the week. Late opening, free to get in and usually a lively crowd.

I will never agree with you

 

[Kanda]

What kind of photo ID do they expect people to carry around with them? And what is the use of it anyway? Do they keep a record of customers in case of trouble?

I always carry my photocard driving licence around with me.

 

[Orang Utan]

Good for you, but many would find it a bit too much of an imposition to be expected to carry their passport around in their own country

 

[editor]

I will never agree with you

You just have fun at home instead, clutching your bag of frozen spuds and congratulating yourself on how much money you're saving.

 

[EastEnder]

I always carry my photocard driving licence around with me.

The only photo ID I ever have on me is a 10 year old, water damaged TFL thing (from back when you needed photo ID with paper season tickets). They can scan that in all they like, but there's no bloody way I'm taking my damn passport to a pub!

 

[TopCat]

Lets not patronise places that impose daft rules such as this. It's a slippery slope with drug swabs and full body searches at the bottom.

 

[Onket]

Heard a rumour about this. Tbh it'll stop me going there if I have to do that. I'm not carting my driving licence and passport round with me on a night out, and I don't have any other photo ID.

Well, you wouldn't have to take both would you!

But yeah, this isn't good.

 

[Onket]

This is where I got the information from Onket, sorry: http://www.market-house.co.uk/

Edit: And that picture actually makes my skin crawl.

I thought the Ed said it was already open.

 

[Badgers]

Lets not patronise places that impose daft rules such as this. It's a slippery slope with drug swabs and full body searches at the bottom.

Do you mean body searches 'at' or 'in' the bottom. Neither are good mind

 

[editor]

Lets not patronise places that impose daft rules such as this. It's a slippery slope with drug swabs and full body searches at the bottom.

I don't think it's generally the clubs introducing the imposin'.

 

[editor]

I thought the Ed said it was already open.

That's the tropical deejay grand opening. But it has been open for a while.

 

[TopCat]

I don't think it's generally the clubs introducing the imposin'.

Nah it's the plod and the licensing people. However these things need to be resisted.

 

[editor]

Nah it's the plod and the licensing people. However these things need to be resisted.

I imagine clubs can't be too chuffed at having to do this. The extra door staff costs are going to hurt, as are losing punters who don't come out for the night ID'd to the max.

 

[Kanda]

Nah it's the plod and the licensing people. However these things need to be resisted.

Doesn't that end up with the club losing money and maybe closing down?

 

[TopCat]

I imagine clubs can't be too chuffed at having to do this. The extra door staff costs are going to hurt, as are losing punters who don't come out for the night ID'd to the max.

Well if the places go under the plod will have less chance of imposing rules like this.

 

[TopCat]

Doesn't that end up with the club losing money and maybe closing down?

Yup!

 

[editor]

Doesn't that end up with the club losing money and maybe closing down?

Not sure that the plod/licensing people would care much.

 

[Kanda]

Just sit outside and make your own entertainment hipster style...

 

[Kanda]

Not sure that the plod/licensing people would care much.

So what good does resisting it do? None really.

 

[TopCat]

So what good does resisting it do? None really.

The council won't want empty pubs/clubs blighting their areas. If pubs/clubs that implement their rules go under, they will have to relax the rules in the future.

 

[editor]

Just sit outside and make your own entertainment hipster style...

That guy's all over the internet at the moment!

I quite like him. He shows more imagination that the usual idiots.

 

[editor]

The council won't want empty pubs/clubs blighting their areas. If pubs/clubs that implement their rules go under, they will have to relax the rules in the future.

Or encourage them to turn into nice restaurants!