#321. Bournemouth's Feared Doorman - Mark Metcalfe
Dodge Woodall
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Mark Metcalfe is a legendary doorman who’s worked some of the rtoughest clubs on the South Coast for over 40 years. With 1,700 fights under his belt, Mark built one of the UK’s biggest independent security firms and protected celebrities like Justin Bieber and Katie Price. From surviving childhood abuse in the care system to receiving death threats and facing off against London gangsters, Mark opens up. We also talk about the changing face of nightlife, mental health, and what really goes on behind the doors.
This is the eventful life of Mr Mark Metcalfe
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| 0:00.0 | My mate, he said, Mark, I had a load of scousers come down last night, and they tried to chop my fingers off. So I said, OK, I'll come in and work with you for a couple days. First night, and they came back for him. There was blood everywhere. Where did your violent streak come from? I entered the care system when I was 12. We got threatened all the time. We got up to the approved school, which I never got that far because I ran away. |
| 0:22.7 | Because regular cases, someone come in and cut you. One lad had his watch wired up to the mains, and they flipped the switch on. |
| 0:30.1 | So his watch would come in to fight. It was hard. It was hard. And I was fighting all the time. and that's where I learned how to fight I was |
| 0:38.2 | beaten I was abused that has so much anger in you was there ever a time when you were on the doors |
| 0:44.9 | that you had the fear for your life yeah welcome to the eventful lives podcast I'm your host |
| 0:53.4 | 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. Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall where we've now had over 100 million views. Mark, welcome to the show, mate. |
| 1:12.5 | Dodge, thank you for having me. Appreciate that. Yeah, we're really looking for this one. We've been speaking for a while and I know it's one of those ones you're looking at and again, you've been putting it off, putting this off, putting this off, putting this and we finally got you here. Terrified. terrified |
| 1:08.3 | yeah I can't wait to cry |
| 1:10.5 | quality |
| 1:12.7 | let's roll all the way back |
| 1:13.8 | how did you end up |
| 1:15.2 | owning one terrified. Terrified. Yeah, I can't wait to cry. Yeah. Quality. |
| 1:28.3 | Let's roll all the way back. |
| 1:29.3 | How did you end up owning one of the largest security firms on the South Coast over the |
| 1:34.3 | last 30 years? |
| 1:36.3 | 40. |
| 1:37.3 | 40, yeah. |
| 1:38.3 | I always had a, I was always a big lad. |
| 1:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.3 | And I thought, you know, I could probably earn some money doing this. |
| 1:47.6 | Because I wasn't stupid either. |
| 1:49.6 | So I was, you know, I was quite switched on by the time I came to 17, 18 years old. |
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