Garry Willard
02/03/2025
Security issue. By way of intro i am a 60 yr old male was with a friend 53, we had been to an Alestorm concert at the Roundhouse after 2hrs travel 1.5 hr queue, 4 hr concert during which we'd had 3 drinks each then light rail to central it was around midnight and the last train home was in around 18 mins so we wanted 1 quick beer. We approached the door the security guard, who appeared to be of Lebanese extraction arrogantly looked up from his phone, noticed our black heavy metal t shirts and my friends tattoos & said dismissively "you've had enough", before looking back at his phone. He didn't see us walk up (not that this would have been an issue as we were sober and quiet), and did not give us an opportunity to speak. I said excuse me how do you know what we've had'. He again looked at our t shirts and said you've had enough. I felt his call was judgmental based on appearance and possibly even racial. It strikes me as poor form for an establishment to hire someone on security who is so judgmental, discriminatory and incapable of independent thought or assessment of a potential patron and even worse if he was following a blanket directive from management. His assessment of us and the risk was one of the worst I've encountered and his surly dismissive attitude and people skills were amongst the worst I've encountered anywhere. This place does not have a great deal to offer at the best of times but it is security like this that reinforces the nanny state narrative, negatively impacts the image of Sydney's long suffering nightlife and heavily contributes to business failures. I cannot recommend this venue to night time patrons. I have no idea why they remain open til 4am.