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Today on Nightclub Confidential...

I'm hoping everybody will buy in to the changes that we make.

You know, music really drives the room, drives the environment,

so we gotta be playing the right type of music...

...to attract the kind of crowd you're looking for.

The bar ended my last relationship,

and I'm definitely looking forward to a new one.

I think Simon's looking for a new relationship every night.

As head bouncer, part of my job is to make sure...

...that everything's going real smoothly, make sure everybody's having a good time.

I'm just starting to wonder if maybe I took on more than I can handle.

Blair Anton from Tequila Nightclub is joining us this morning.

Good morning, Blair.

-Good morning, how are you today? -Awesome.

What's the secret to a successful nightclub?

Reliable staff that make your customers feel at home and at ease, and music.

You know, music really drives the room and drives the environment,

so we gotta be playing the right type of music...

...to attract the kinda crowd you're looking for.

It's time the DJs start to listen and play...

...what the customers know and what they wanna hear.

We've always trusted the DJs with the music,

and we've never told them what to play.

And they'll freak if we start now.

There's not enought people here tonight.

This is the problem.

Big room, no bodies, and nobody's drinking.

This isn't very difficult. This is...

I don't understand.

-Do you count in, Chantel? -I triple checked that pretty much.

If things don't change soon, we may be forced to close our doors.

Well we're all here to meet our new boss man,

so I want to introduce Blair.

At the moment, there's no one in charge of dealing with the staff.

Simon and I are way too busy.

That's one reason to bring in Blair.

I just see so much potential.

The goal's to get to be the number one club in the province.

I don't wanna settle for anything less and anybody here...

...I think would agree that they'd like to be there too.

At the end of the day, everybody wants to make some money.

If the club's busy, you guys are making money.

So I'm hoping everybody will buy into the changes that we make.

You know, there is a group of people that like house music...

...and techno and electro,

but in my point of view, this room is far too large...

...to appeal to that crowd on a nightly basis and have this room full.

Now we're gonna take that music format and we're gonna appeal to a broader crowd.

We have a new boss that wants to change the music and change the format.

His goals are a little bit ambitious.

Matt's been a big part of our stage production and our lighting production,

and I don't think we could do a big show without him.

I put in a lot of time into programming the lights and making it my baby.

I don't know how to explain it.

When you're partying and the night's good,

you get that little extra energy.

The lights is just the extra little bit.

We still could use one extra waitress as far as just a spare...

...because we're just full right now.

We just got enough to do our shifts, but that's not giving everyone a day off.

I'm looking for an individual that can be there Fridays, Saturdays,

and build up a loyal client base.

They get to know who it is. Every week, it's the same person.

I'm like a workaholic.

She's cute, she seems dependable,

she's the type of employee I really wanna have here.

I think she'll connect with the customers.

See if the DJ's coming in. No?

When I got here, we had like nine DJs...

...that all played kinda whatever they wanted to play...

...and it was house or electro or techno or...

Like I don't recognize the music at all.

So I've changed the music format completely to be top 40,

dance, rock and roll.

We will play the odd country song.

The old country music in our electro bar.

You don't play all the requests.

-I'm not... -You're the DJ, they're not.

-So this... -Okay, Chunk.

Blair is coming from a country rock bar, a very busy country rock bar,

and his ideas of country rock worked down there.

I just think they may not work, the country angle especially,

may not work here.

The DJs are getting booed.

Atta boy, atta boy, you're getting there.

Our head doorman Mitch is a personal trainer by day.

He has his own gym.

Chunk and I work out with him and he's brutally rough on us.

All the way down and come up.

You're going for five more.

This is ridiculous.

When we're working out together, Simon always seems to be whining.

Give me two more, buddy.

Chunk comes in there, he doesn't screw around.

Back to the triceps.

Training with Mitch gives us a chance to vent about the club.

What do you think of Blair the hair starting up there?

It's gonna be a bit more of a dramatic change than I expected.

Yeah, no kidding.

Our whole purpose when we built the place...

...and our whole vision and soul of the place...

...was... we wanted that energy, we wanted that really different music.

We wanted that stuff.

It seems like it's gonna turn into the same as every other place.

It's tough for me to swallow.

And it's gonna be a tough thing, I think, for all of us.

-Reginald. -Yes, sir.

-You ready to hurt me? -Yep.

Going to see my buddy Reg today and get a tattoo recovered.

I figured it's as good a time as any...

...and with the changes at Tequila, why not make some other changes too?

Who was the manager before?

Chunk and Simon have been running it for the last three years, I guess now.

My big concern is Chunk is kind of short-sighted at times,

bit of a control guy.

He tends to not wanna give things time to work.

We were the place that people went that hated country.

When I say country rock around here,

I think everybody gets their hair in a knot.

I don't want to even attempt to be a country bar.

What I want is if f we got 40 girls in here on a stagette...

...and they wanna hear a country song, play it for 'em.

If Simon and Chunk don't step back and let me do my thing,

there's gonna be a lot of head butting and there's gonna be some problems.

The bar ended my last relationship...

...and I'm definitely looking forward to a new one.

Now we have a new boss that wants to change the music and the format.

It's time the DJs start to listen and play...

...what the customers know and what they wanna hear.

We've got another big DJ booked in the club tonight,

from Australia.

So I'm gonna go get my hair and clothes banging for tonight.

I don't even know how I'm gonna do my hair.

It's nice to have a guy on board who kicks people out for me...

...and can give me my rock star hair too, I guess.

It's part of the club life working in the industry...

...to take a few backup shirts with you.

Now you'll look pretty for all the girls tonight.

Good to go.

-Cheers, man, thanks. -No problem.

This can't go this way. I don't know who made this go this way.

Everything runs this way.

The bar ended my last relationship...

...and I'm definitely looking forward to a new one.

I think Simon's looking for a new relationship every night.

There's never a shortage of women at the club...

...trying to get my attention, but finding "the one",

that's the challenge.

I see that Jess girl and I think I have a mission to take her out.

I haven't seen you in forever.

Let's have a drink. What do you wanna drink?

I met Simon at Tequila.

We are mutual friends with one of my really good girlfriends.

You know, I thought he was a very nice guy.

He really impressed me.

The first time I met Jessica, I was totally intrigued,

and that's not like me.

I even showed pictures of her to my buddy, Niko.

Just 'cause, I don't know, seemed pretty cool, down to earth.

She wasn't the type of person I thought she was.

I rarely, rarely meet genuine people, being in the club and whatnot.

She's pretty sweet, kind of, you know, intrigued me a little bit.

I still have that bottle of wine that we stole...

It's nice to see you. I miss you.

Let's go for a walk.

I really like how classy and beautiful she is.

And I think she's very down to earth and genuine.

But as usual, the demands of the club pull me away...

from getting to know someone I'm into.

He's always very busy at the club, so...

He asked me to see him again,

and so I... I said yes.

That would be okay with me.

A few of our resident DJs are opening for... tonight.

The DJs here seem to think they run the show.

Nobody seems to want to manage them...

...and this needs to change, and change quickly.

We have good DJs here. They know how to mix.

Myron's one of our house DJs and he's a really good guy.

But I'm afraid that he's probably not gonna buy into the program.

It's gonna get interesting, that's for sure.

Michael Wyatt, he's a great little DJ. He loves to party.

I'm gonna jump and down on the decks.

And I'm gonna play some heavy, heavy techno.

I don't give a shit what any of these guys tell me.

And anybody in this club knows...

...if I start playing something else, I'm gonna... off.

He's into techno and electro, and that's not what we wanted.

That's the problem with those types of DJs,

is that they just... they get into their own little world...

...and they play for themselves.

They don't care that nobody's drinking. They don't care about any of this.

They just care about their beats.

So I finished my first set and I come down from the DJ booth,

and I see Blair at the bar.

I can't play AC/DC, I promise. I really don't even know how to.

I mean, I could... scratch it in, but I like techno.

There's too many people out, and we're missing a lot of that crowd.

You have a manager come in and tell you to play...

...some classic rock mixed in with your electro.

Like, I don't have headphones that fit over my cowboy hat, dude.

Like it doesn't work.

You just tell me where you want me to be, but don't tell my to play country...

...because I will...

Fair enough.

And he basically told me that that was the new format of the club,

and if I can't play that kind of music,

I'm not gonna play here anymore.

That was the end of my career at Tequila.

The crowd went nuts.

There's a lot of people here for...tonight.

I gotta hope we're making money.

The problem is nobody's drinking,

and to make money, we need the crowd to drink.

Part of my job is to make sure that everything's going real smoothly.

That's quite a challenge in a place where they serve copious amounts of alcohol.

No, no, you... Mother...

If you wanna shut these people... Okay, man?

A guy came up to me at the club and he was being belligerent.

If he's treating me like this,

he's probably gonna treat my customers like this.

Grab your coat and get out!

You touch me, I do what I gotta do!

You don't talk to me like that.

That means you talk to my patrons like that.

-Okay. -Get your boots and coat, and get out!

When something bad happens, you wanna contain it...

...as soon as possible and move it outside...

...as it will affect the emotional state of everybody else...

...that's there to have fun.

Just trying to get my coat. You guys see what's going on?

I like to be really gentle. It's nothing personal.

The guy that owns the bar told me that you're out.

I'm gonna be really polite and let you get your coat first.

Why is this piece of shit kicking me out of the club?

I'm just doing my job.

-Get your... coat! -Don't touch me! I go outside.

We have good DJs here. They know how to mix.

If that type of thing was working in the past, you know,

they wouldn't need me here today.

You guys see what's going on?

When something bad happens, you wanna squash it real quick.

He just really wouldn't leave.

He wouldn't even pull up his coat check ticket.

He said something a little threatening to our owner,

and, you know, once you say something threatening to our owner,

if he tells this guy to get the heck out, you know, it means he gets out now.

After he resisted quite a bit, I take him outside.

As soon as I let him go, he turned around and faced me.

So I grabbed him by the neck. I didn't wanna get hit in the face.

-Relax. -Hey, don't... fight him, dude.

I did rip the brand new shirt that I bought today,

so I guess, I guess he won.

So... got everybody on the dance floor, but there's nobody lined up at the bars.

We wanna get him off an hour before last call...

and get the house DJ on and get everybody drinking tonight.

I check the time and Matt was supposed to get our resident DJ...

...on stage a half hour ago.

Why is the bar closing down?

Because there's no people dancing when you wanted to play.

Who makes that choice?

I decided that!

We wanted our house DJ to finish the night off.

The lighting guy decided that...

...close the night off...

...and when asked why he did that, he said, "Simon, go... yourself."

As the lighting guy or a person that works for me,

these guys don't seem to be dedicated to my decision ever,

and I don't appreciate that.

Are you serious?

Where's Matt?

Are you upset about something?

Yeah, but it's a long story. What time do you wanna end?

2:30.

So finally get Myron to the stage, but we missed last call...

and now we've just lost a ton of revenue tonight in booze sales.

It's not your fault, but, yeah, shut it down,

and I wanna get everybody the... out of here.

And you should've been on an hour ago.

You know, it's always a cool ending song is "Sweet Carolina."

-I don't know, it's... -It's weird as...

At 2:00, the bar's usually lined up for last call.

Instead of that, we had a bunch of people on the dance floor...

...with fist pumping,

where our resident DJ would've lined up the bars.

Every night is... dead.

When we bring in a show, these people come here...

...to see someone, and then we're gonna... cut them off early?

I made the right decision letting him play longer,

and you guys shit on me.

No, I'm not shitting on you.

You're freak, man. You're... snapping on me.

Yeah, he's just...

I've never had him talk to me like that or put fingers in my face.

I just don't understand.

I'm sick of this shit.

I knew Matt and the DJs would be pissed about the music changes,

but this is crazy.

I never expected him to act like this.

-I was, like, who made that decision? -It was not his call.

Oh, absolutely not.

Chunk, he just ran back in. He's going on up on stage.

...this shit. We should get him off stage.

The staff should not be running the show, the management is.

It doesn't matter what the staff think.

It's not acceptable behavior.

Why be told by someone that doesn't know what to do,

when I know what to do.

I make a decision and I know what the right decision is,

and I make it and then I get shit on.

I'm tired of this shit.

Delete my program.

I was feeling pretty unappreciated...

...so I kind of let them know all the stuff that I've done...

...by basically removing my folder from the program.

I got my programming...

He deleted everything.

He deleted everything? Are you serious?

We wanna have lights for at least three weeks, Blair.

Shut the... cameras off for like 10 seconds...

-...so I can actually talk to this guy. -We can go out there and talk.

What'd you delete on there, Matt?

I have my programming saved for when you guys apologize.

It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

You were hired to do programming, Matt,

so I'm gonna tell you one thing, you're fired.

I'm gonna take this away from Blair. You're fired.

And if you deleted something that belongs to us,

as far as copyrighted programming that you did...

...when you were working for us, you're gonna get sued.

Get the...out of my bar.

Get the...out of my bar, Matt.

-Can I talk to you? -Nope.

-No, I wanna talk to you. -Talk to me when you're sober.

-May I talk to you? -No, Matt, no.

Do what I ask you to do.

And I think that's why Chunk's really pissed off,

and to have a sound and lighting guy throw his finger...

...in my face and basically, you know, tell me off is ridiculous.

I'm so not used to this level of disrespect from employees.

It's very new to me.

I love this bar, I love what it used to be about.

I can't work under this level of craziness.

You know, one minute, your lights are working,

the next minute, he's deleting your light show.

Just pointing out that all of my show,

my hard work and everything is back on there.

I'm fighting for the bar. I'm here fighting for me.

I'm here fighting for the staff.

I'm here fighting for the customers that come here. That's my goal.

Obviously, some of our staff aren't dealing well with Blair.

Tonight, things just went to hell.

I hope for Blair's sake, things pay off.

There's other people that can do my job.

It's not hard.

It's drinking and pressing buttons, just be creative.

He needs to chill, you know.

After a super stressful night, I just wanna blow off some stream.

So I get the girls together and we go to the gym for an afterparty.

When there's an after party that I'm hosting...

...with seven girls plus me,

it's what I like to call maximizing the odds.

Gina's one of my clients...

...and it's obvious that there's a little attraction building.

I try to remain professional.

He's fun to be around. I like Mitch.

But I'm glad that I see him once a week, and he's my friend.

My thoughts on Mitch?

Tight package, good friend,

good haircut, very sexy.

Somebody that I would probably, probably throw down...

...on this couch right now and jump of top of him like this.

Yes, I would, like this.

But he's my friend.

Guess what? She's also a client, and we remain very professional.

Yes, I can't do that to him.

And I won't let it happen.

We're having fun tonight. That's what it's all about.