#316. Feared Manchester Doorman - Paul Brady
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Paul Brady is a feared doorman from Manchester who got caught up in the city’s criminal underworld from a young age. Paul also built a name for himself as a legitimate DJ, playing in a number of venues across the country.
In this episode, we talk about life on the doors, jail time, and the naughty music scene.
This is the eventful life of Mr Paul Brady
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| 0:00.0 | Why did you leave Manchester? |
| 0:02.0 | Okay, alright. |
| 0:03.0 | I got off of the job to work for a certain individual. |
| 0:06.0 | His name was Paul Massey. |
| 0:08.0 | And I did it for a few months. |
| 0:10.0 | I was 18, this one particular night. |
| 0:12.0 | I dropped him off, I'd parked the car outside, |
| 0:15.0 | and the window down, and I was just waiting, waiting. |
| 0:17.0 | And as I turned my head, |
| 0:19.0 | Manchester was starting to become a very gun-orientated, violent place. If I'd have stayed up there, there's only two things I would have happened. Or rather they'd gone to jail or I would be 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. You didn't want to be around me. For what reason? I chopped two guys up. If I told you what followed next was for 175 quid, you will not believe me. |
| 0:42.4 | But this is what happened. |
| 0:43.6 | Right. |
| 0:46.6 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. |
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| 1:05.1 | 100 million views. Paul, welcome to the show. Thanks, Dodge. I, uh, 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've had, was resting up from, I mean, certain operations. That's right. 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, |
| 1:29.2 | but most feared dormant in the UK for the past three decades? |
| 1:32.7 | I wouldn't know. |
| 1:35.0 | To be honest, I appreciate what people think and feel about me, |
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