#309. Britain's Most Feared Doorman, Prison & Drug Addiction - Big Paul Brady

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2:44If I'd have stayed up there, there's only two things that would have happened. I would have either gone to jail, or I would have been dead. I wasn't doing very well. Everybody seemed to just walked away from me. And people didn't want to be around you? No, they didn't want to be around you. For what reason? I chopped two guys up. If I told you what followed next was for£175, you will not believe me. But this is what happened. All right. Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host, Dodge, and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives.

3:18Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodin, where we've now had over 100 million views. Paul, welcome to the show. Thanks, Dodge. We've been waiting for a long time for this one, mate. Yeah, it's been a while. Unfortunately, I couldn't make the other two invitations because I was resting up from certain operations, but I'm now here. We are finally here, mate. Very much looking forward to this one. Let's roll all the way back. What's it like being known as one of the kindest but most feared doormen in the UK for the past three decades?

3:53I wouldn't know. To be honest, I appreciate what people think and feel about me, which is great. It's overwhelming, but I don't understand it. I'm just me. You know, I just portray, what I portray is a person that just tries to be nice. You know, you'd be nice to me, I'd be nice to you. You know, if you're not nice to me, then I'm definitely not going to be nice to you. That's very true. And that's the way I look at it. there's been a lot of controversy about the persona, the image of Paul Brady. There's many different strings to Paul Brady's bow, but most people seem to be fascinated with only a couple of those strings.

4:52And those strings are basically the ones that have been in the public eye for the last 30 odd years. Yeah. One which is the security ball. Yeah. And the other is the DJing ball. And they forget, unless you really know me, they forget about the rest of me. Yeah. And sometimes it's very difficult to be me when they only want you to be who they think you should be. Yeah, okay. Why did you leave Manchester? Oh, yeah. Okay. All right.

5:31I used to work. I got offered a job purely by size, right? To work for a certain individual, which I thought was an individual, right? His name was Paul Massey. Yeah, I know. I became his driver because driver's truck bodyguard, right? and we used to regular clockwork every night used to go to the North Manchester there was a place called the North Manchester what was it called North Manchester something club I can't remember what it was called but it was down the stairs and I used to drop it off there pack outside wait until it comes out and I did it for a few months it was really good nice car I was 18 right 18 18, 19 and this one particular night high school North Manchester high school restaurant it was called and we I dropped him off I parked the car outside I had the window down about that much I was just listening to the music I was just waiting waiting and as I turned my head I had a shotgun here

6:49and as I did that I saw these two guys and one of them said you're not sanctioned you better fuck off now

7:01I got out the car left the keys got out the car walked off and never went back and just left Manchester that day? no not yet no when Paul Massey finally got in touch with me he said look I'm sorry about that but because I didn't ask permission to employ a black guy they took offence everything's about respect and everything's about respect and about asking permission back then it was anyway and because he just employed me and didn't ask permission he was an affiliate he wasn't actually in this this group of gentlemen yeah yeah yeah but he was just an affiliate he was a solicitor he was just an affiliate accountant actually and because he didn't ask permission that's what they did to me to make sure I would never come back and I said to him he said it's okay I've sorted it you can come back because I'm not coming back I said I'm never coming back to work for you or anybody like that ever because I'm not getting involved in all that

8:14two weeks later his car got shot at he almost died I left Manchester shortly after that because Manchester was starting to become a very gun orientated violent place and I did not want to stay up there because trust me on this if I had stayed up there there's only two things that would have happened I would have either gone to jail especially with the people I was running with or I would be dead because the first thing I was going to shoot is the big guy okay and you don't know when they're going to come for you you don't know when they're going to come for you and i thought well i've i've got i've got girlfriends um i've got girlfriends and we were doing all right i thought i'm not doing this i'm not doing this so i left but luckily i was still doing the djing and i was working in a pub at the the fisherman's walk in Oldham.

9:21Rochdale, sorry. It was in Rochdale. And in Rochdale, it's very, very racist. But I was that good at DJing. I was that entertaining. The pub employed me and within a couple of weeks, it was full. Yeah. All right. I remember it was on a Thursday. I was on a Thursday, not on a busy night because the other DJ was in the other room upstairs and he had it going off. so on a Thursday I used to get on the kit from the car set it all up do my thing I used to do a bit of singing a bit of dancing a bit of rapping playing some music I was never allowed to play reggae right that's why I never play reggae now and one Thursday I noticed sat in the front this guy he was dressed in a morning suit right and his legs crossed glass of orange and he sat there for five hours and watched what I did.

10:18When I finished, I was packing away my equipment. And he said, he came up to me and he said, I've been watching you. I've been in a couple of weeks now and I've seen what you can do. He said, we're opening a new club in town and we'd like, well, he said, I'd like you to come and be my DJ. I went, I've not heard of no new club in town. He went, give me his card. He goes, come down and have a look. yeah so i thought okay so i packed all my kit away put it in the car drove drove on the next day i thought i went down and i'd look now in muchdale town center everything converges on a roundabout and just off that roundabout was a building and it was called well the the the club that was there was called mr bojangles only on lights it was on the own beautiful inside when i walked in there They were still building, almost finishing it.

11:07And as you walked in, you had a bar here. You had a bar here as you walked in. You walked down further. You had a massive seating area with another bar. And when you came back up the stairs and you turned left, through the double doors, you had a cocktail bar. But as you walked through the door, the entrance door, there's two doors, the main door, double doors, and you walk in, the bar's there. just there was the DJ stand well the DJ stand and dance floor and as I came back and had a look at it it's got it's got glass dance floor glass walls right it's got all the newest equipment Revux reel to reel it's got everything right back then I didn't know what Revux reel to reel was didn't even know how to use it but he had the decks and he had everything and he came out and he said what do you think?

12:11I went this is fantastic this looks great and he said yeah I would like you to be my resident DJ I took the job it paid reasonable money it paid reasonable money and I worked there for 18 months, 2 years I think I think that's what it was, 18 months, 2 years until he left at another manager turned up. He was slightly a lot older and he got rid of me. Why? Because he was a racist motherfucker, that's why. Right, okay. So I went to work at a shitty little club just down the road. Just hold me on that. Yeah, yeah. You've had some people being racist to you. I know you're the coolest, calmest, and I've also seen another side to you as well where you flip, you go.

12:57When someone's racist to you like that, does it make your blood boil immediately and thinking, what, I could, do they actually know what you could do to them? No. No, no, no, no. That's the crazy bit. The crazy bit is, right. We're talking like... Racists think they can do and say whatever they want to a black person and nothing will happen. That's what they think, okay? You'll get racial abuse on the front door. You'll get racial abuse as a DJ. You'll get racial abuse anywhere, right? But if you're still in front of me and you've got a position of authority, and you're not actually racist you just do things because i'm black

13:42it's like i can't do anything right because he got rid of me not because i was a shit dj or because he got rid of me because he didn't like me as a person as a black person playing there because the person that he replaced me was shit yeah okay and to prove my point when i went to work at a little place down the road who loved it when I came in. I said, look, I'm looking for a job. And they went, yeah, no problem. We know who you are. We're senior. I emptied, basically emptied that place, and they all came down. Good. And the owners came down and asked me to come back. Yeah. I didn't go back. No.

14:21Right. I said, no. I said, as long as he's there, there's no point in me being there. He said, well, he's not going to be. We're going to move him to somewhere else. but the person that was the assistant manager at the time I was there was a Fijian rugby player famous Fijian rugby player and he came down and he said look don't tell the owners but I've been offered a position at another club in Oldham and I'd like you to come and work there and I've gone what's it called it's called the Ballyhoo room i went okay when i put on a look at it this place was huge 2000 capacity right um you had a massive dance floor downstairs you walked up the stairs you had a piano bar then you walked another sort of stairs you had a function room so i started working there did you ever think about working were you doing the doors as well as dj at this point i i was because it sounds to me that you loved the door work but you also loved the dj i love doing both yeah okay i did if i wasn't doing one I was doing the other so just on that note there there's an amazing story about you in Bournemouth when it all kicked off one night 10 fellas come in tell me about that when you were actually DJing that night oh I could chat with the venue well to be honest most clubs most clubs that it kicks off when I'm DJing right if the doorman um they don't necessarily need help but if i can see if i can get out and help them i will right it doesn't matter what i'm doing right but this one particular night we were at the venue and this is what i think mark is talking about venue one which is a small venue i'm djing it's kicked off it's i think it's like it's a thursday or a saturday night it's not a friday because friday was heritage and there was never any trouble on heritage right and they were fighting just beyond the dance floor which was in front of the dj box so i leapt over the dj i leapt over the dj box and just started throwing people about throwing them out um i stopped hitting people um a while back because i was hitting i was hitting them and i was sparking them yeah and it's like the tongues were hanging out and shit right but I'd been done so many times in court I'd been fined so many times

16:54back then there were small fines like 25 quid, 50 quid so you'd get fined immediately by the old bill no no no no what would happen I'd get arrested for assault go to court manage straights court it doesn't matter what you say you're a bad person fine you've got to pay the fine right Right. And, but it wasn't my fault. I didn't start it. Right. I've been hit. So I've hit them back. Right. The thing is, I can take a hit. Right. They can't. Well, not from me anyway. Right. So every time I hit them, there'd be big bruises on the face or the blood or the nose would be smashed or whatever. and I thought to myself I'm sick as I I'm always in the wrong here so that's when I I thought okay I'm not going to hit them anymore I'm just going to I'm just going to pick them up I'm going to throw them about you know see how they feel about that because they can't say they can't go to the police and say this guy threw me around like a drunk drunk they ain't going to do that yeah alright they ain't going to go crying to the police and that's the the it happens the door situation right is one i love it i i love working the door i love dealing with people right i don't actually like fighting i don't but if it's necessary i will get i'm sorry you're losing yeah that's it you're very good at it apparently all right and it's not i don't pick my fights all right i just deal with them i just make sure that i'm not the ones who's going to be unconscious What's the bit when someone flicks your switch?

18:34I've seen you on the front door, right? Calm, kind. Everyone loves you. I've come chatting to you. What's the bit when someone's just pushed you that little bit too far?

18:46Believe it or not, it's not the racism one. It's not? No. No. It's the rudeness. It's the rudeness and then nothing happens until they hit me. Because they all eventually do cheap shot me. they do right and that to me that's once once once you hit me your ass belongs to me right and that's it um it's not racism i've i've had racism since i was since i was 12 yeah you know it's you get used to it and the thing is racist people are ignorant and that's the because they can't beat you well they couldn't beat me enough racist remarks. But that didn't bother me. And I was taught, when I was at Cinderella Rockefellers, I was taught by Malcolm McElwraith how to use communication.

19:45But the communication didn't always work. So I kind of had it but didn't actually use it a lot because up there you couldn't as soon as you started trying to be polite to them they'll just smack you in the face but all over the head yeah luckily yeah right I've never been stabbed I've never been bottled right I've been hit with a stool I've been hit with an iron bar but they've always hit me across the back never across the head or anything like that

20:25there was one funny I was working I was working in I was working in Reading no Oxford I was working in Oxford in a place called Park Lane I used to have that club yeah in Oxford yeah I had two clubs in Oxford one in Park Lane the other one was called in Cowley Road oh that was the Fuzzy Ducks yeah Fuzzy Ducks that's right Fuzzy Ducks yeah I had that for about three or four years yeah Fuzzy Ducks yeah yeah wow Park Lane yeah there was that was a Luminar club yeah yeah it was yeah yeah strong door strong door team very strong door team but this one particular evening a lot of excuse my language I'm going to be frank a lot of were in caused a lot of trouble Dormund came to slung them out and said we're coming back I went here we go now we used to park around the back of the club so as we're coming out and i'm walking as i walk in come out the club and i turn left and left again i see them iron bars chains running down and the funniest thing is they ran around me in at the other doorman and I went what's going on because I hadn't been what is the what's because I actually knew a couple of them right and they said I actually hadn't been a wrong one right they weren't after me because they were after the white guys and I went well but I'm a doorman working said no Paul you're alright said you were you always have been and you always will be and you always are right and it was quite funny right and the dormant they got in the cabin they were gone anyway so they didn't sort of didn't get they didn't get to them and then as they were walking back just nodded to me and off they went yeah which is quite respectful right and i found it quite strange and i realized over the time of working at different places that it's how you treat people yes right and it doesn't matter how big you are if you don't treat people right you're going to get you're going to come unstuck, which a lot of Darwin did.

22:39Okay. But if you do treat them right, you'll get a lot of respect. And it's just carried on. And I lived in Oxford and Reading in my dark times, in my dark days. That was from 2000 to 2008. Because before that, I was down here and I got into so much trouble. not intentionally but circumstances just just brought brought it my way um that's where the drugs came into it and um the dancing 10 years from from 89 from 89 to 99 for me were a blur yeah but they were the greatest 10 years I would never write those years off I've been to jail I've been

23:41deeply involved in selling drugs I've been a bit of an addict of almost the worst kind not just cocaine, crack weed and but i was never those 10 years were the best years of my life okay it cost me it cost me my 10 years it cost me my 12 year relationship right it cost me my kids cost me everything right but it was an experience that i will never ever give up i will never i will never ever i will never ever um not have those 10 years because those 10 years as a dick because i was a dj then right and oh the dj like mate mate everything everything was was going back to the best parties you got you got the best drugs you got the best women right you got everything right you were you you were you went everywhere you went to mate it was just awesome after parties at the clubs, right?

24:45The stories are, oh, mate. The, we used to, one particular, here's one particular story, right? The club was the venue, it's gone now. It was the venue and it was an after party of a very big heritage night and we'd had a couple of the massive DJs from London play for us. The club closed at two but once everybody had gone people had stayed back and we'd drink some of that and the big side which had 1700 you had some of the hangers on that the management and the owners used to keep back and fun used to ensue fun used to ensue the VIP bar was nicknamed the foot lounge but as a DJ I used to put for the afterplanter I used to put a record on one deck not loud loud we used to put a lot of cocaine all the way down the record no it's not down the record right and then you had to turn it and snort the cocaine see if you can make it to the end mate you used to get so hammered Yeah.

26:13You used to get so hammered, right? And then you used to pick a bird, right, if she was willing, off to the IP lounge and used to bang her. Yeah. And that was it. There's one particular time they fucking cammed, they videoed me, didn't they? All of a sudden, all the concealers, it's big ass. Yeah, yeah. It was quite fun. That was just me. Yes. Right? And there was... Down here in Bournemouth, but then you had, we had Bronson, bless his soul. One of the greatest guys you'll ever meet. Best guys ever, mate. Kindest soul, party boy. Very, very much, I love that guy, right? He was an amazing person, right?

27:01But what a headache he was. Oh, a headache, what, for you? Yeah. Was he? I had to get him out of so much trouble. You know, I had to watch him, oh, doesn't matter. where he went right especially out of Bournemouth if I was ever there you had to watch him because he'd insult somebody just because you know what he was like and somebody would want to slap him right and you had to spot it they even did it at the zoo in the cage he used to do it at the zoo in the cage when I used to work in a dorm there was a zoo in the cage right because I got I won't say I got blacklisted as a working as a DJ by the police.

27:44That's another story.

27:50I got employed as a doorman at the Zoo in the Cage. Big night. By Martin Shaw. Yeah, by Martin Shaw. Martin Shaw believed in me. Martin Shaw loved me to death. And they didn't want to employ me as a doorman. But Martin Shaw said, you need to employ him, especially if you're going to do what you're going to be doing downstairs, airs right which is obviously the black knights so they only put the done in me down there all right

28:20james bronson right used to insult people left right and center just by being funny right and they couldn't enter they couldn't handle his funniness yeah okay so if you knew him you'd understand what he's like if you didn't know him you think oh and who's this fellow yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you want to slap him. Yeah. Right. But you have to get in there. Yeah. Have to get James gone on, get these people out of the club because they ain't going to stay in there while he's in there. Right. Because they're going to pinpoint him and going to hit him. So you have to get them out. And it was such a headache.

28:52Right. Because when James was on it, he was on it. Yeah. There's no stopping himself.

29:00And he was fun. James was fun. James, Simon Steve

29:10Izzy I didn't know Izzy that well lovely guy Izzy I met Izzy when we started going to Clute because they both owned Clute didn't they? Bronson and Izzy yeah that's right but this was after James had left Richer car yes and I started going I started going to Clutes. I wasn't doing very well, right? And everybody seemed to just walked away from me for a specific reason, which I will explain to you in a minute, right? Everybody just seemed to go like that, all right? I was like, it was like a magnet, two norths and just repelled, there wasn't one come anywhere near me. Is this when you come back from Oxford back into Bournemouth?

29:53No, it was before. It was before. This was before. And people didn't want to be around you? No, they didn't want to be around you. For what reason? I chopped two guys up, right? In 96. 96, I got caught. Well, I didn't get caught. Some idiot, right, that I thought was a friend got me sweenied. What, undercover? Yeah.

30:26The police have been chasing me for about 10 years. Because you were serving arm? Is that why they're chasing you? No, they thought I was serving up. Okay. Right, but I didn't start serving up until... They thought I was involved in the drugs from 89. Yeah. Okay? But I didn't get involved in actual selling drugs until 92, 93. Yeah. But the police didn't like me for this reason. All right? They didn't like me. when I first came to Bournemouth Bournemouth was a dead town there was no entertainment all the clubs shut up stupid time right but me coming from where I come from maybe you could go anywhere till four or five o 'clock in the morning so I started doing parties okay beach parties now if you remember Bournemouth Beach used to have these arches on the beach so in the summer bank colleges especially we used to put down get down our sound system down their generator and we used to beach parties right mate and there was hundreds of people right hundreds of people at these beach parties climbing the the bloody light poles and everything right and the police obviously back then didn't understand it um they didn't want it yeah so basically they used to come down but they couldn't do anything there was hundreds of people down there so they couldn't do anything so they pinpointed who was like the ring leader right which was me and me and the guys that i ran with right at that time but i didn't realize what they had instigated right all i wanted to do was to have fun with the rest of the you know and because the dance music had just come in.

32:25So I thought, you know, and there was loads of kids. Why couldn't they have fun? You know, why should they want to go to bed at 11 o 'clock? And on a bank holiday, there was an influx of party people from out of town. Coming down. Coming down to Bournemouth. Sunny beach. Yeah, yeah. And there was nothing for them to do. Yeah. All right, because most of the clubs wouldn't let them in. Yeah. All right, because they're out of towners. and if you had to be a member to get in to stay it was just so full of bollocks but all I did was set up these parties play these parties shut down and then leave the one that they hated me for was the one in the old bus car park 1987 the bank holiday i don't know because i'd organized the parties on the beach they the police thought i was this particular bank holiday it was going to be down at the beach but i took a minute of that i'd already got a flatbed truck and parked it into right at the end um in the bus station car park which was there which is now the bh1 yeah all that i'd already set up the sound system with with with with a drawback that you get basically and I sold tickets right from where I was working and by the time we got there which was about Arc 11 and we pulled back the curtain let's say there was 2 ,000 people in that fucking gal park

34:09when the first record went on right it just went off. It just, mate, for two and a half, three hours, people were just jumping. Yeah. Fucking, it was just jumping, right? But I noticed there's a heavy, I mean, a heavy, heavy police presence. They didn't come down, they didn't do anything, right? There was a heavy police presence. So I said to me and my two oppos, we've got the gas. Yeah. We've got the money. Let's fuck up. Yeah, let's do it one quickly. Yeah, basically. Yeah, yeah. So we're going to cry, We're going up Christchurch Road, it's past McDonald's, and I see all these coppers running down, right?

34:47And all I could hear on the radios was, find Paul Brady, find Paul Brady. They obviously didn't know what it looked like, right? All they were was, find Paul Brady, because I was opposite. As they're running down, I'm on the upside of the road, walking up the road with them two mates, right? And I heard, well, shortly after, that once they were told the last record was being played, they went in hitting people with fucking batons and smashing them. Yeah, they smashed all the equipment. They just went down so heavy-handed on all these people. Yeah. It was horrible. Yeah. And back then, there was no cameras to take any pictures.

35:26There was no phones to take pictures or to record any films or whatever, but it was a real clusterfuck. The police were horrible. and from that party that's when they had it in for me right okay and I never actually I never actually did another party right well not on the beach anyway I'm not there I did another I did another one or a friend of mine did another one but I fronted it up in the car park yeah it was a just before it became a gym yeah right Nick McAvoy it was Nick McAvoy's and same thing there the police the police came couldn't do anything because for some reason because it was in the car park it was private couldn't do anything so they were polite in saying what time are you going to close down this that and the other and we told them but then the people once we finished people couldn't they did the same they did the same thing they were so heavy handed with the people coming out and going on that I just said well I'm not doing this anymore who did you carve up those two blokes and why

36:35Right Okay

36:431996 I've been Caught at the venue Right I've been sweeney'd By the police The police had found seven and a half ounces of black in the car that I was in, not my car, the car that I was in, 75 grand's worth of conflict notes and two and a half ounces of cocaine. Nothing to do with me, because it was in somebody else's car. In material that I'd sold it to him the day before,

37:26he'd left it in the car was giving me a lift to collect money because i was going on holiday the next day right after heresy i was going on holiday i was going to spain and he gave me a lift to collect some money and i didn't know the police have been if i'd been driving i would have known because i was a passenger i was just they'd been following me all day they'd been following us all day. And because I wasn't going to I didn't go to a certain place I was heading back home I got sweenied in Queen's Park. Got arrested.

38:04That was the beginning of my dark times. Because that's when everybody went right because they thought a couple of days and weeks after that other people got started getting arrested and getting done right and they thought i'd grassed on people i'm not a grass never have been never will be the way i grew up you don't do that but they thought that's what that's what i was doing right later on they realized they found out it wasn't me it was somebody else and it was the guy who was my co-defendant he'd given up me he'd given up everybody that he was doing business with. I didn't know this until I went to court.

38:46I went to court, magistrate's court, he was there. Second time I went to magistrate's court, he wasn't there. And then by the time I got all the briefs for the offences and everything, he's gone QE. He's gone Queen's evidence, right? Which means he's giving me up. even though when they went to my flat they found nothing. Went to his flat, they found credit cards stolen credit cards, checkbooks more drugs but they weren't interested in him, they weren't interested in me at that particular time. So anyway couldn't get a job nobody nobody was my friend nobody was my friend, everybody just walked away from me.

39:32Is that because they had the fear of you? No. The reputation? no no no no no no no no no no association it was association okay guilty by association yes right well while everything was hunky-dory everybody was great yeah but as soon as i'd been caught by the police nobody was everybody was doing drugs then yeah everybody was doing drugs everybody was selling drugs right not everybody obviously yeah and there's a lot of money floating around everywhere everyone had cash on everybody and it was all cash yeah right okay now so i had to make a decision and that decision was how am I going to make any money how am I going to survive right at that particular time I still had the family and I thought fuck it I'll start I'll do what they think I'm doing I'll start serving up right actually not serving but supplying yeah okay what bigger amounts bigger amounts huge good middleman bang wallop off you go okay right I was a good middleman right before that I was a middleman with the knowledge but not actually physically doing anything i used to introduce people okay all right and they and then they give me a drink yeah yeah but once that facility had gone because nobody would talk to me i had to go out of town virtually or people that were from out of town and deal with them so basically i was getting drugs from these guys these two guys right and serving it come back in a couple of days give them the money yeah so you'd have it on tick yeah for a certain amount of time yeah yeah yeah I'd get it on tick didn't have the money that amount of drugs nobody had the money to actually pay for it outright especially in my condition back then because I had no money but I'd get it on tick the tick was good because I'd always pay yeah anyway they there's one particular deal was done and got a job in London, DJing.

41:32So I was down in London for over the weekend and I came back on the Sunday

41:42and I was in my flat, manning my own business, and all of a sudden, there was this

41:52sound of stone on the window. I was upset. it's these two guys oh okay come downstairs open the back door and they said where's our fucking money I went I told you Monday if I told you what followed next was for 175 quid you will not believe me but this is what happened right one pulled out a sabatier knife 12 inches long one pulled out a claw hammer they came in through the back door one blocked off the door to the rest of the flat and one turned to me and backed me to the sink okay and i thought well i'm gonna fucking die now yeah and i went guys i was shit myself yeah i was scared right and i went guys come back tomorrow I'll give you your money so 175 fucking quid I've got a cheque from work I took it to cash converters right cash converters they change it for a fucking percentage I'll have the cookie cash done come back tomorrow but they weren't happy with that so I backed up to the sink and I knew what was in the drawer so I backed up to the sink and I opened the drawer and in the drawer was a box and in that box there's an aluminium Chinese chopper and I reached my hand into it and I picked it up and as I picked it up it's like everything was in slow motion and I saw the hammer do an arc and as it did that arc I went like that it hit me, bounced off and I went like that on his shoulder there and then he came back again missed me and I did the same like that as he stepped back matey with a knife came forward like that and I went like that down his shirt he had a jacket on and I cut him all the way down and I watched the jacket go black alright and as he did that matey was coming back one more time with a hammer and as I went like that he felt the pain and went like that with his other hand and the chopper was it didn't stop and it took two of his fingers off and straight into the shoulder by this time the other guy had legged it right through the flat, now you can't get out the front door so he ended up running upstairs the guy downstairs had collapsed on the floor screaming and I was just about to hit him again and he decided to beg not to hit him not to hit him and I looked at him right I know he's not going any fucking way so then I went through I just I don't run as you know I don't fucking run I just stomped and I'm up the stairs up the stairs there's three bedrooms first bedroom there's nobody in it then I heard this dud dud so I'm going to the second bedroom and it's on the first floor and this guy is throwing a sideboard against the window trying to smash it to get out I think what are you doing right right and but it it was a lot more angrier than that and as he went to do it again i grabbed it threw it away crawled over him i threw him straight through the fucking window right if went out the window landed on his ankle this is what i've heard afterwards right because his ankle was broke and as i threw him out the window i just turned around went back downstairs and i looked at this guy and i thought by this time i was okay all right all the adrenaline was gone and the the fear of getting fucked up was gone and I was in charge, right?

45:47So what I did, I looked on the floor for his finger, picked it up, his fingers, picked it up, put him in his hand, wrapped his hand in the towel, picked him up, took him to the phone box, which was just across the road, dialed the ambulance, put him down, walked back to my flat. As I closed the fucking door,

46:10I lay on the door. It's fucking police, right? some plain clothes right and some in fucking tactical tactical wear no guns right because there wasn't no good told him back then I went can I help he goes have you just been across the road I went nope I'm covering Clara yeah I was going to say I'm covering Clara right I went no said well we believe that there's a gentleman across the road that you've just attacked him and we're here to arrest you for section 18 attempted murder I went but I hadn't done anything anyway

46:52I don't they arrested me I was covering the fucking Clarke so I had to go so I went with them right to the police station they as I was being marched into the car I saw the ambulance pull up pick this guy up they got me to the police station and they put me through the process took everything off, gave me one of those jumpsuits which didn't fucking fit it didn't fit it was fucking horrible it's like fucking it's like cutting me in two but they didn't care put me into a fucking cell four of them walked me to my cell I've had police come to my door right many many times I've never been a problem alright I've always gone with them right I've always they've never had to cuff me or anything but these fuckers oh mate everywhere I went they were cuffing me not at the front but at the fucking back right and I thought I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of complaining I'll just go with it right I thought I'm fucked anyway what the fuck right anyway I heard because one of the couples I knew that wasn't with this lot he brought me a cup of tea and he said you alright?

48:21I went fine. He goes I just want to let you know that the guy that went to the hospital broke an ankle said you tried to kill him said he didn't try to kill anybody said I was defending myself well they said you tried to kill them right fine okay they tried to interview me but i wasn't saying fuck all so i'm not saying anything right um the lawyer the court-appointed lawyer turned up and he goes my suggestion mr brady would be you tell them everything that you know and then um it'll be better for you i went you can leave right now so i don't need you okay because i i know that i know i know the coup i know the coup right so anyway i got i got to charge with section 18 attempted murder on these two guys the next morning they interviewed me oh sorry i've got a bit um a copper that had been chasing me for quite a while came in on drug squad so we've got you now you bastard so we fucking got you now and walked out and then the chief inspector came in and said we're going to hold you for another um x amount of hours because after certain after 24 hours they've got to get an inspector to come in and tell you that they're going to hold you for a little bit longer okay and that's what and that's what they did and i thought um that's me done i said i'm fucked anyway three days later

49:59during the interview sorry, during the interview I told him the story I told him that I was buying drugs from them and I told him that they came, I let them in and they brought weapons and I was just defending myself right, and it was then that said don't say anything to the police right, I didn't but they're telling you that I tried to kill them but I didn't I said if I was going to kill them, they will be dead. All right? Anyway, it goes to Crown Court. All this goes to Crown Court.

50:38Firstly, it's in Bournemouth.

50:43And then some weird thing. I don't know why, but then they transferred it to Dorchester, which was, nobody knew me in Dorchester.

50:58when all the evidence came out

51:03there was 20, 30 empty cocaine bags that they had as evidence with 10 pounds worth of cocaine in them. 10 pounds worth of cocaine. Didn't find any other drugs. They didn't, for some reason, didn't enter into evidence the big fucking weighing machine that I had, right? All they had was the counterfeit not all that's funny in the interview right they produced all this fucking they produced the black they produced the chopper right they produced the counterfeit notes and they I was charged with knowingly having it in my possession knowingly having it in my possession that's what I knew was counterfeit notes 50 pounds worth yeah fucking 75 grams worth of 55 notes um 200 pounds worth sorry 100 sorry 20 bags of um residue yeah with 10 pounds worth of cocaine in there and attempted murder all these crown court so i'm in the dock thinking this is my ass anyway all the evidence come out and i was honest i i told them what happened the two guys lied their asses off you could tell um because the stories weren't their story wasn't marrying yeah right

52:36the jury acquitted me of the attempted murder happy days yeah yeah right they acquitted me of the knowing me having my possession the counterfeit notes now let me tell you something my solicitor my barrister was fantastic because he used this line right he said to the copper that was doing that was actually had all the evidence he said if Mr Brady was involved with having holding touching counting these notes will these fingerprints not be on them and they went well yeah and they went is Mr Brady's fingerprints on any of these notes they went no

53:29he then went so why are you accusing Mr Brady of having a caliphate note because he had a caliphate note in his wallet when we arrested him was it any of the serial numbers the same said no because on my travels picking up money i got paid in several 50 pound notes but i got rid of some of them right anyway i got acquitted i got acquitted of the counterfeit notes i got acquitted of the attempted murder and i got fined 200 pounds for having 10 pounds worth of fucking residue cocaine bags right and i walked out the court went in dorchester right like the sun was shining on me I couldn't believe it I could not fucking believe it and these two guys disappeared for a while but I got a lot of threats from them I got a lot of threats from them right or through them they were going to come for me I said look if you're going to come for me just fucking come for me yeah alright whatever you want to do just come for me and I was in I was one of them apparently had lost his fucking mind, right?

54:43The one that had sliced up, the one that had sliced down,

54:49he'd gone stupid. And the other one kept telling people, right, that it wasn't me that did that to him. It was somebody else, right? It got involved. People asked me about it, but I said, I never explained it. I never explained it because people are too fucking nosy. None of their fucking business, right? and they'd already made up their mind that I was guilty before that. So me, I don't have to justify myself to anybody. But the problem was, I had nothing, the police took fucking, the police had confiscated fucking everything. Even, even, right, when the properties I actually owned and the cars that I had back then, right, even though I had no fucking money, they took it all.

55:33Okay. I couldn't get it back because I got convicted of the 200 pounds, I got fined 200 pounds for the 10 pounds for the cookie. so they fucking so I ended up with nothing so what did I do? went back to selling fucking drugs unfortunately my there was nothing wrong with my credit but nobody would sell me drugs in large amounts so I hit a kind of a depression and knowing how to wash up cocaine um because i've done it before for other people i started smoking crack and i smoked a lot of it and a fucking lot of it and a lot of it and a lot of it and a lot of it and a lot of it until i had nothing left my whatever i could fucking sell of mine i sold i didn't rob anybody didn't steal from anybody else people long to me i fucking sold it sold my records, sold my fucking everything, I sold my, I had these I sold my bikes I had two bikes, sold them I sold my models I sold everything, just to smoke fucking crack on me fucking

56:52it's one of the greatest feelings you'll ever have but it it will fuck you, it will fuck you up and it it fucked me up, right? I ended up...

57:10I ended up living in my car. I had a Ford Escort. That's all I had left, right? Fucking cheap banger Ford Escort. And I ended up in that, right? And I stayed for about... I went to a friend's house, a flat. And I was supposed to stay overnight. Because he was moving out and going to another job. and his mate stayed but I ended up overstaying. I was there for seven days and his mate had to ring his mate to tell me to leave because he couldn't tell me to leave. So I left and I just I kind of just floored about after that but then I left. For some reason I got offered a job as a DJ. Right. What year roughly are we talking here?

58:06We're talking 80, sorry, we're talking 90, no, no, 96, 97. It was 97. Okay. When was it you said, I need to get out of Bournemouth? If it's coming on top. Post this going on. I got into a fight. I was coming to that. Okay. Right. I went to Worthing, Newtown. the illusions didn't know any fucking body yeah but as a dj as a dj i was i was living in a hotel getting fucking good money yeah right and i turned this club around from having nobody to everything to be in the busiest place stands is it no no no no no no no it was called illusions in worthing illusions in worthing right and um i got fired from there because another dj went to the owner and said he could do better than me.

59:00I said, how can you do better than fucking full every night? Yeah. Right, but anyway. I don't know what it was, but I ended up losing that job. But I'd been offered... I wasn't going to come back to Bournemouth, right? But somebody offered me a job in a new club opening in Bournemouth called Berlin's. Yeah. So I had no fucking job, so I thought, fuck it, all right, why not? So I passed all my kit into the car, and I went to Berlin's and I spoke to the manager, Alex Sweeney, met the doormen. I know all the doormen anyway, right? And he gave me the job.

59:45I got sacked on the same day, and I'll tell you why.

59:51The opening was on a Thursday, and he took I misheard him and he said you need to be here for 6.30 to open at 7 but it wasn't it was 5.30 when it was 6 so I turns up with all my kit I did records and everything and he says what do you want and I went I've come to play he goes you're too late you're fucking late Alex really is a bit of a ball buster right I said look I'm here now I said I apologise for being late I said I didn't realise I must have I misconstrued the time let me play and if I don't like what I'm doing then I'll fucking leave went in destroyed the fucking place destroyed the place and I was there from 97 to 99 okay in 99 I got into a fight outside the club right mate as you were a DJ or as a doorman DJ DJ okay I wasn't a doorman anymore I was a DJ right I finished the set and I come out of the club meeting this burning arm right and I'm walking down and so I'm walking down the road I can see this kiddie people are walking in front of me he's elbowing them as they're coming past so I've moved her from that side to this side and I'm walking down because my car I had to walk past him to get to the car to get to my car so as I've done that right I've walked past and I've timed it.

1:01:23As the elbows come out, I've done that and pushed him. And as I've done that, he's come fucking screaming at me. But he's come with his head down and he's come punching like that. So I've smacked him on the head. And as I've done that, I've got hit from behind. And I've turned around and I've smacked this guy. He's gone. I get hit again and I've smacked this guy and he's gone. This guy had then come back over the wall. because I knocked him over the wall. There's a short wall and he's falling over it. And as he's coming back, this girl had stood in front of him facing me, right, screaming at me.

1:01:59So I picked her up by the elbows and gone, right. And as he's coming towards me again, I smacked him on the head again.

1:02:10That's over. Doorman have come out. I've gone to my car. Got into the car with her. Drove off, gone home. Six weeks later, I'm driving down the road and the police have stopped me six weeks later police have stopped me and they've gone Paul we need you to come down to the police station I goes what for because there's been an accusation of assault and we need you to come in to I thought yeah okay I'll come down they didn't arrest me they told me to come down to the station which I did and as I got in that's when they arrested me for assault on these three guys I said, but it was self-defense.

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1:04:42And they've gone, well, unfortunately, they say that you attacked them. I said, well, if I attacked them, they'd be in a worse condition than they actually were. I said, I only hit him. There's two of them I hit once and one of them I only hit twice. And once I was out of danger, I said, I left. And said, have you got any proof of this? Because of the cameras. Somebody switched the cameras off. there was no camera footage it was video back in the days and there was no footage so I got fired from Berlin I went to court crown court and they gave me a year I got arrested and I got fucking charged and within fucking six weeks I was in the dock mate the girl that I chucked out of the way she was in Bristol University doing acting and she was crying oh mate she was a fucking brilliant actress she was crying in court she was saying she was afraid of her blah blah blah I'm thinking that's not bollocks that's not what you would the guy that I'd hit was some important fucking guy's fucking son right and he's the one that insisted that the police fucking deal with me and I got arrested six weeks, that's why I couldn't believe it, six weeks later why six weeks?

1:06:14You know where I live anyway, six weeks later got arrested, another six weeks later, I fucking was in Crown Court the day I was in Crown Court, two days later, I got found guilty, I got sent to Dorchester right

1:06:36I got sent to Dorchester right which is a basically it's an ACAP prison right sitting in Dorchester I was in Dorchester for two weeks got into a fight in fucking Dorchester with this fucking oh got into a fight in Dorchester with this up and coming young young young kiddie right I didn't actually fight him I just held him off because if I'd have fought him I'd have got in more trouble yeah I didn't want So I just held him off, threw him to one side, walked off. I was in the gym, pushing weights. And he came in the gym, right? I watched him. I watched him. And he's walking in, he's playing with the weights, and I'm watching him, watching him.

1:07:25And everything I'm doing is heavy. And he walks up to me and said, you're Paul Brady, aren't you? I went, yep. He goes, I want you to forget what happened in the yard. I want you to treat me how to do that I went okay it's easier than having to fucking watch the whole fucking you know what I mean having the eyes in the back of your head every time you're having a lift yeah not just lift, shower, piss, whatever whatever right, I thought, because all I want you to do was just do your time and get out so you got a year, did you know just six months no no I didn't do that no no no no no no we had to do education right and in education most people that do education is because they can't read the cat right the kind of thickest fucking shit right only because they didn't bother going to school or whatever so i was helping people you know i was working on something without something with this and after two weeks of me being in dorchester right a screw came up to me and he went what are you actually doing here?

1:08:34I went, nine months. I'm just doing fucking nine months. He went, no, no, no, no, no. He goes, what are you actually, he said, you, what are you doing here? Why are you here? Because I got into a fight. He goes, but you're nothing like your record. He obviously read my record. I goes, what do you mean? He goes, it says you're violent, it says you're this, and you're aggressive. I said, well, I'm only aggressive if somebody's aggressive to me. right he went right okay two weeks later i was moved to a fucking um decap i was moved to a fucking open prison ford oh it was ford was there ford yeah mate and i did i did four months in ford right i won't tell you well i got up to um i go i didn't want to do any kind of i didn't want to do anything it's wanted to do my time and get out but you get caught up in these things right so this jewish accountant um asked me if if i would mind working for him i went doing what he went bodyguard right because of it was getting said what am i going to get paid he goes i'll give you two um two packs of backy our bankers announced her backy a week i went fine i don't smoke mate the amount of fucking money we made right fucking trading backy and fucking phone cards and shit it's fucking brilliant right and in the toilets i can't believe that i can't believe that the open prison let this happen.

1:10:16In the toilets, they've got the old pull chain handles. I just unhooked one and kept it with me, right? Everybody comes like, it's come to fucking bits, mate. It was awesome, right? But, the thing about Ford is people, they kept absconding or going, buying alcohol and bringing it back and trying to get it. They were stupid, right?

1:10:51Between 8 o 'clock and 4 o 'clock, so at 8 and 6, you did the education in the morning. Sorry, 8 o 'clock, you have to stand by your billet, get counted, went for breakfast. Then you went to education. Then from education, you went back to your billet, got counted to lunchtime. From lunchtime onwards, you do what the fuck you want. I was in the gym pushing fucking weights I ended up in the rugby team right playing rugby right it was great and but the problem was that well as far as Bournemouth is concerned I was finished I was done I had nothing so when I came out only one person visited me in Wales who was that?

1:11:30my mate called Tom Wendell right he used to he was my driver back in when I was riding high okay and he left to go to Oxford to do his own thing. But we still kept in touch and he brought me... He's the only person that visited me, right? And he brought me... 99, 2000, New Year's Eve. He brought to me a couple of days before that, 20 E's. Smuggled it in, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 20 E's, right? which had distributed to my block. There was only eight hours on the landing, right? Which had distributed to me for New Year's Eve, right? They got the alcohol in and everything, right? Mate, we had a fucking great New Year's Eve.

1:12:18It was fucking brilliant, right? But when they let me out, when they let me out, all I had was what I was stood up in, right? Which was a pair of Gibson boots, tracksuit bottoms, and a like a black doorman jacket or one of the zip up ones that's all I had and a t-shirt Tom come and picked me up when I walked out of the prison right and I stood there I could feel him watching me right because there was nobody there at the time I looked down the road I looked up the road and when I and there was no there was nothing I was thinking and all of a sudden I heard this car I knew it was Tom because I hear it and he come and he picked me up and he took me to Oxford, right?

1:13:07And I stayed with him and I was up there for eight years and I rebuilt my life. Good for you, man. I rebuilt my life and I came back here in 88. I did do a couple of visits. When did you come back down to Bournemouth then? About 2008 onwards? 2008. Okay. I came back, right? But before that, I did a couple of visits but I'd noticed the town had got dirty. Yeah. There was just like an influx of Eastern Europeans, right? and the drugs the drug scene got fucking worse I mean it was terrible right and it had gone from the fantastic happy party place to this dark I mean it was really dark dark infested shit and obviously I ran into James and a few of the others which they they loved seeing me you know it was good but they were saying when you can be back when you come i said i'm not fucking ever coming back i said i'll come and visit but i'm not going back here but in 2008 up from 2000 to 2008 i built a security company with a with somebody i've met up there right but we fell out and he bought the company from me and i thought i'm gonna fucking i've got some money what am i gonna do and that's when i came back to bournemouth right but i didn't go back in town i stayed i moved in with a friend of mine and for six months all I did was sit at the computer and download music because I wanted to go back to DJ but in the middle of that I ended up working for First Stop Security which was Mark Metcalf and Mark Smith, is it?

1:14:46Yeah, and Mark Smith and Chris Bumped into him the other day, Chris Wells Chris Nice fella Yeah, he is Bit of a womaniser He is a womaniser Two good men though Mark Smith, Mark Metcalf Two great guys, two great guys, right? And I ended up working for them. And I ended up working at the Orange Rooms, right? Which was very easy. But the staff, the door staff, it had changed. The attitude of the door staff and the quality of the door staff, you could see the change, right? and it was quite funny because the SIA had just brought in, the government had just brought in the SIA, which actually was in 2005.

1:15:35And in 2007, the broad badges came in, right? And I applied for one because I had to have one because I couldn't run a security company. But they wouldn't give me one in 2000. Because of the criminal record? Criminal record, right? But the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, right? Yeah. they couldn't stop me having one but because there was a time limit on anybody that's been to prison there's a time limit on anybody causing an offence which I think was three or five years and then there was a time limit of seven years right if you've been to jail it's now ten years it's changed it now and I went to jail in 99 so in 2007 I appealed the knockback twice and on the third time it was November 2007 and their solicitor said you'll get your badge now I went so why are we going through all this for because it's a process because we have to wait seven years before we could give you a badge and say blah blah blah and I walked into the corner and said yeah you can have your badge and that was it after all the shit they put me through not getting it right and just to see if I would fight to get it and then they gave it me exactly seven years after I come out of prison.

1:16:50What does your criminal record look like? Horrible. My criminal...

1:16:58My disclosure is... When you get a door badge, right, you have to do a disclosure, a government disclosure, right? And it goes back to 1975, right? It goes back to 1975, and it's mostly assault, right? It's mostly... The prison sentence is on there. there's several assaults there's one theft right when I was 16 which wasn't theft I bought some tools from a so called fucking friend whose dad found out that he'd sold his tools and then fucking he said I'd stole them but anyway I'm not a thief never been a fucking thief there's that and then from then onwards it's just assault assault assault assault jail assault it's but since since um since 2000 oh and a couple of driving bans yeah but that's it drink driving no no no no no just just um points points okay just speeding points yeah and um and i got and believe it or not i got banned again for having no insurance when I didn't know I didn't have insurance.

1:18:18Yeah. They said they had to give me six points for not having insurance, right? When I went, well, I wasn't driving. Yeah, but it's your car. I'm thinking something's going on here, right? But anyway, I just took it. When you're at your peak, you're a big, strong, like, if anyone knows Paul, you see the size of his hands, they're like three times the size of this. Did you ever have the fear of punching someone, knowing that one punch could kill someone? Yes. That's why I stopped punching them. Yeah. Yes. I started to slap, bitch slap them. Yeah. Right. And throw them. Because that was the safest way for me to hit anybody.

1:18:58Right. As any of the guys that work with me will tell you, they've seen me do it. Right. I've hit somebody and I've turned them over. Right. And they've landed on the face as they've turned over. Right. and it it obviously in my head they've gone fuck yeah and it's like like I said earlier it's like them having their tongue hanging out you know and the eyes had rolled back in their heads and I actually thought I'd killed killed them and I just thought I just transitioned I didn't consciously do it I just thought I've got to stop hitting people so I just transitioned to bitch slapping them yeah and throwing them once you're in my arms reach and I put my hands on you you're not going anywhere you're mine yeah you belong to me and it was quite funny to watch as I've got them and then I've picked them up and the looks on their faces when they realise that they can't get out and mate I've had I have had people karate kick me, right, to get away from me and nothing has happened, right.

1:20:15I've had them punch me, right, and nothing has happened. The punches have had no effect and I've gone, and off they went, right. And by that time, other dormants picked them up and dragged them out or whatever. But it's... Have you ever been put on your arse? No. Never? Nope. Nope. I'm proud of that. Yeah. I know that. I have been hit, right? I have been sucker punched from the side, from the front, and I've never been dropped on my arm. The first time I ever came down here, I went to zigzags, right? I was with my missus at the time. I was wearing a three-piece suit. Back then, everything made was so big.

1:21:00And it was a very expensive suit at that particular time. It was 700 quid, right? And I'm wearing this suit. I'm in zigzag, and I'm dancing. And at the bar, I found out their names afterwards, right? You've got Steve McLaughlin. You've got Danny McLaughlin. You've got Darryl Self. You've got Pete Drummond, right? Quality crew. You've got the guy, yeah. They know the party. You've got the crew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got the crew. Yeah. And I've gone to the bar to get a drink.

1:21:28And a situation's kicked off. Pete Drummond's come up to me. And he's fucking... They sent the dog out. and knocked him on his ass. Hit the floor. As I went to walk off, he grabbed me on the fucking, grabbed my leg and said, try to bite me. Who was that? Pete Drummond. Pete Drummond. We became fucking great friends after that. Yeah. Right. With them all. I love that. We stood side by side when Leeds came down. Yeah. Right. Back in the 90s, when Leeds came down. And they smashed up the town, didn't they? Yeah, they smashed up the town, but then they smashed up the zigzags. Yeah. Because we were all out there, mate and we were all out there and we get we we sent them packing right we that's a good crew mate that's a strong very strong crew with the government Danny McClavity I used to I used to work with my first my first door job was working with Danny McClavity at 11 11 right um we used to part of the Exeter Hotel back in the day and me and I'll tell you Danny's one of Danny Danny was one of the wasn't big then right Danny was one of the funniest people you'll ever fucking meet seriously right and I got to know his brothers right Steve and Mark right and I got to know Daryl Self and I got to know everybody else that peeled off from them and I just seemed to fit into the social scene but not not in not in depthly like they were because they obviously they grew up they all grew up together went to school together and all that kind of stuff but they accepted me you know they accepted me which was fantastic and I still and I still well I still see them occasionally now and whenever we meet it's still the same Steve McClaffet is the most generous human being you'll ever meet yes right and nobody nobody can say anything bad about Steve McClaffet to me nobody same right or Danny same a friend of mine is booking me for his birthday in November and he wanted a band he wanted a soul band so I said well let me do some I'll do some checking and find out and I rang Danny because he's got he's involved in bands he's a singer himself yeah exactly right and I said Danny so I've got in touch with Danny he said yeah you can do it not a problem and I messaged this guy and I said yeah I've got Danny McLaughety and he went who I went Danny McLaughety he went no and I said no he said no I goes why not because he beat me up once that's what he said what did he you only beat me up once I just I just burst out and I have to send Danny that message right I said sorry Danny because this guy who doesn't want you because you beat him up once and Danny just laughed I want to get Daryl Self on Daryl Self he's got some stories yeah Daryl Self is a character he's a yeah you better get You better get him on before he actually dies.

1:24:36He'll have some stories for you. He's good. At your peak of drug use, tell me the amount of drugs you would do in a day or a week. I'll tell you, right, I have smoked a thousand pounds worth of cracky one day. And it lasts all day. into the next day, into the next day, three, four days. It just, mate, you never get any higher. Yeah. Right? You can smoke yourself straight and then you start again. But it's pointless because you can't get any fucking higher. Yeah. But you like the taste. It gives you that, it gives you a fucking taste that you just, you just, it's just so good. Yeah. Right?

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1:27:24it's heroin is the body crack is the mind okay and people that smoke crack can get lost they can get completely and fucking lost in their head right and i to me i would tell people never do it yeah never do it never do never do any drug to be honest right but if you if you if you got a liking for a drug crack is the one don't do it right it's it's it will take your life away right it will make you spend every fucking damn thing you got and it will give you nothing back and at my peak

1:28:09I'm one of those that I like to smoke on my own because when you smoke with other people they're thieves right it changes their person mate it changes your person well I'm not sure it changes or it brings out your real personality but a lot of them become greedy and they try to steal yours so I learned this lesson early and so i never need to smoke with anybody right and there was a couple of women that i smoked with that they were just they were really that that phrase crack whore yeah right you didn't fuck them yeah right it was just they would just smoke and smoke and smoke and smoke as well and you get nothing yeah guys they they just they just steal it from you or when you weren't looking they'd try to steal and you oh you become paranoid and you have to I didn't fight I never fought anybody for it right I just but I never invited him again yeah okay right I just kept him out so I ended up always smoking by myself and it was it was nice it was nice but when you've got nothing in your cap by it you end up coming to the realisation that you've got to do something to get yourself straight and I just that's when I moved that's why I didn't come back to Bournemouth when I came out of prison so if I'd come out of prison I'd have gone straight back to that life yeah and I would have been and I would have been a lot less thought of yeah so I went away got out of the environment fixed myself and then I came back because there was there was no alternative yeah

1:30:14and I've not done too badly I'm not doing too badly I'm back DJing I'm teaching a lot. I don't do the doors anymore. I retire from doing the doors. But every now and again, somebody will ring me to do a private party, which I might do. And I have a catering company. And you're a bloody good cook. Catering company, mate. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. So, you know, and Zine Cuisine, it's called, and it does all right. and we're just about to we opened a shop a takeaway in the Dolphin Centering Pool but it's not working for us it's tough business to get into mate tell me about it it's not just that it's where the business is the footfall it's not working for us we've decided to go back to doing events and festivals which works for us that works for us Paul?

1:31:14Dodge. Are you happy? I am now. Yes, I am now. In 2010, my mother was diagnosed with dementia. My sister brought her down here. In 2012, I moved into my sister's house to help her look after my mother. And my mother died in 2018. And we looked after her until the day she died. And I'm still there. Yeah. You know, and it's been the happiest times since my shit times. Yeah. Right? And my sister actually saved my life because if it wasn't for my sister, I would have drifted back into that shit life. Yeah. and because of the love of my sister I'm I'm okay what's your sister's name? Claudette massive shout out to Claudette out there yeah Claudette she's great have you got any other brothers and sisters?

1:32:20yes I have I have three other brothers and one other sister well I have two half brothers and one half sister and I've got another full brother who we don't speak to Why is that?

1:32:39They live in Manchester and they have got that mentality they do not want to progress everything from all they do is take, take, take, take take they stole from my father before he died they are constantly in jail and they're just pure negative and my older brother who I used to think of as a god he was brilliant he's just a selfish greedy manipulating wanker and I'd rather not deal with him I'd rather not have him in my life because when he was in my life he would just just take money and not pay it back let me this let me that give me that give me that and me thinking of him as I did yeah no problem he'll give me back but he never did and I've just had enough of it so we don't we don't talk to the Manchester and the bar family so they're just me and my sister amazing just me and my sister and your brother they said in and out of jail for what what sort of stuff my eldest brother was in jail robbery kidnapping he was a better fighter than me yeah he was a much better fighter than me right yeah mate he was a trust me he was evil he was very evil the other two drugs breaking theft breaking and entering just predominantly my older brother was was violence and the other two was drugs and they will never never change yeah you know in and out of jail all the time when my dad died he left us all with something right and they blew theirs went through theirs with fucking drugs yeah so and I was the executor and I wasn't going to give them any money yeah right but did they get the ump of you no I gave them the money gave them the dough yeah yeah I gave them the dough I gave them the dough because that's what my dad wanted yeah right but I wasn't going to give it to him because I knew I knew what they were going to do with it yeah but that's what my dad wanted so my sister said give it to him so I did and within six months the ten grand that I'd given each other gone okay have you ever done any debt collecting yes

1:35:11I've gone through a few doors mate yeah yeah I've gone through a few doors yeah believe it or not I was gonna I was collecting a debt I was gonna collect a debt on the day I got sweeney'd but I didn't have time to go and do it and the police were waiting for me at that there. But when they realised I wasn't coming, that's when I got swanied. That was a debt I was going to collect. Yeah. But other than that, I've collected a few debts. I've been through a few doors. Have you ever come unstuck when collecting any debts? No. No. Have you always managed to get the money and everything you wanted to from your...

1:35:53Yes. Yeah. Have you ever kidnapped anyone? No. Right. No, I didn't need to. No. because they didn't want it to be coming back yeah kidnapping is kidnapping is it doesn't start out as kidnapping no it's yeah kidnapping where decks are concerned kidnapping doesn't start out as kidnapping right it's just a matter of dragging them to the cash point or whatever but as soon as you do that it's kidnapping yes all right and and it's and i was never into that okay mine was always i'll be back at this time this day have the money here us were taking a shit yeah and the money was all the money would always be there because they didn't want me coming in destroying their shit right and that is why we work together and you do close protection for my family at the festival yes you know i i'm out of money going for the festival when you're outside the cash box office i'm like mate this is genius i did i did i did that for you right i love you guys you're brilliant right and when there was a lot of cash right and you've got mark metcalfe involved and he got me involved right and you got the right mate i love sitting out mate i love sitting outside my cash because ain't no fucker coming in just don't want to come in i remember i remember you might ram here in there as well that's right and you're looking after all the Woodall family it's like you on the front mate ain't nobody coming in no one ain't coming in ain't no one coming in mate no ain't nobody coming in and if and if they did that's the last thing they're doing mate I don't give I don't give them monkeys what they got with them right they're gonna be done that's it and that's done and that's and that's that's the way it is yeah that's the way it is Paul I've absolutely loved this mate thank you very much Wood you know Dodge it's been great Mr Woodall it's been really good but there's a there's a lot more to tell there's a lot more to tell and I know there's a lot more to tell but anyone out there who wants a part two please leave a comment below because I know there is another 10-15 stories in Paul and I know these stories these will be yeah yeah well you know we'll see we'll see mate you're a proper I enjoyed this it's lovely isn't it seriously I did I really did enjoy that reiterating these stories right Like, a lot of them, I have to say, I left out a lot of details, a lot of names, right, because a lot of them are still alive and they wouldn't appreciate because they're still around.

1:38:34Still active. Yeah, they wouldn't appreciate the dimension, especially in the business that they're in.

1:38:42But they were just as bad. they were just as thank you i want to say thank you thank you for your honesty you're welcome but you know um that's what you that's what you're here for yes and that's what your podcasts are all about and there's no point in me coming here and not partaking in the the the the integrity of of this podcast and i wasn't going to do it i know you know i know i was not going to do it working on you for a while you are yeah yeah i wasn't seriously because i just thought there's too many there's too many people out there would may not be happy with what i'm going to say but then i realized that i don't have to mention any names you know i can mention i can mention situations right the names i have mentioned they've been on on a good note because they've been good to me All right.

1:39:39And I've had good memories of these people and they've not done anything relatively wrong, you know. And also they're no longer with us. Yeah. So I can mention them. Yeah. But I'm not sullying their reputation by anything negative because I still know their family and they're good friends. Yeah. And they were good. They were good friends to me. And I liked them. the two guys that um unfortunately came on the wrong end of my wrath um

1:40:14if i could remember their names i'd give them to you but i'm not um i can't remember their names have you seen them since that i saw them for a few years after this after that and um i saw one of them their brothers when i was working at berlin's who pointed their fingers at me and like that as in she's going to shoot me but nothing ever transpired from that but I haven't seen them I haven't seen them since I would say the 90s yeah okay you know they're not from Bournemouth no I bet they're not going to be living anywhere near Bournemouth one was from Portsmouth I think one was from Southampton apparently but I've not seen them and there's nobody that I know that has or I've mentioned it.

1:41:03And it's not like I'm hiding anywhere. You can't hide. No, exactly. I'm one of the guys that cannot hide. I can't hide because everybody knows where I am and everybody recognises me. It's really funny, right? Everybody knows the name, right? And everybody that doesn't actually know the name that has met me or seen me will never forget me. It's really weird, right? Well, it ain't weird. well it's not one you're a good person two you're massive free you're the nice you know you're the nicest kindest human being but when you tell me like what's going on in your part you think wow that's not paul that's not paul but there's another side isn't there that there is yeah there is i have i have there is a switch yeah okay i have a bad i have a nasty side to me i do i'm really evil right once that switch is gone i'm i'm definitely i have i am evil right but i try not to be yeah i try not to i try not to have that that's that's that that switch flipped right um but once it does it's gone i'm sorry it it's it i'm not a manic i'm not i'm not um i'm not um i'm not a wolverine i'm not i'm not berserker yeah right i'm calculated calm yeah that's more dangerous yeah and and um having the knowledge of the of the martial arts that i do right

1:42:31it is dangerous and i try to keep it i try to keep it i keep it boxed in paul mate i've really really really enjoyed this one i've done 300 odd episodes mate this is right up there thank you mate i've actually i've actually enjoyed doing this and i was i was i was really i was really scared about doing it yeah all right i'm thinking i don't know what but those that are listening i gotta tell you i got a smile on my face yeah i've had a smile on my face since we started yeah and it's all the memories coming back and speaking about the people it's been good yeah mate you know and it's been a little bit of um okay i've a lot of a lot of release like as you said at the beginning yeah it's it is refreshing yeah yeah people leaving a good girl that was cathartic i've just told you my life and the part of it anyway yeah part of it i know people please if you want to listen to a part two please leave comments below because if the comments are below i know paul come back for a part two because there's a lot of stories that hasn't been told yeah and they're quite funny actually yeah yeah there's a lot of stories a lot a lot of not yeah there's a lot of good times and the bad times the bad times were between um 96 and 2008 but you know there were also some great times in there as well yeah yeah and yeah yeah there is there is yeah and you're super talented chef so they say got an amazing voice an unbelievable dj by the way people Dorman good friend you're a good friend to people Paul like you've been we've been known each other for 20 odd years you're a good friend to people yeah so that yeah I can't help it that's my personality yeah right I'll solve this but just don't piss you off no yeah simple as that that's it it's hard too but once once you do you're fucked we'll leave it on that note Paul you're a legend mate thanks man you're a good man mate I fucking love this thanks mate I have loved this how good is that Paul you've absolutely nailed that mate hi guys I really hope you enjoyed that as much as I did can you do us a favour and leave us a review as it massively helps us grow the show cheers guys

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