You're confusing me with someone else, says the man bikers want

Yet again, the man behind the Metro Theatre owes a lot of money.

The fashionably dressed patrons almost choked on their double decafs as a group from an outlaw motorcycle club roared into their well-heeled suburb a fortnight ago.

Wearing full club colours, the Bandidos parked their Harley Davidsons in Knox Street, ordered coffees and then began a not-so-subtle search for one of Double Bay's caffeine regulars, Jonathan Gould.

'Sources' have told the media that later that week two bullets were left on Mr Gould's office desk in the city.

On Tuesday this week four different men, described by one alarmed cafe patron as "muscle men", arrived in the street again making inquiries as to the whereabouts of Mr Gould.

British-born Mr Gould has long been a Double Bay customer - partaking of his coffee at a variety of coffee shops accompanied by his German shepherd, Jazz.

But the 65-year-old has been having a bad trot lately.

This month Mr Gould's company, which runs the Metro Theatre in George Street in the city, was placed into voluntary administration.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are owed to various performers, including the Veronicas, the Whitlams, Pink, Alex Lloyd and Toto.

Promoters including Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg are also out of pocket.

However, it is not just members of the entertainment industry who would like to see the colour of Mr Gould's money.

Also chasing the former bankrupt is a Double Bay rag trader, Michael Erdogan, who bought a house in Caledonia Street, Paddington, from Mr Gould in November.

Land title records show that Mr Gould sold the house to Mr Erdogan for $1.15 million. However, Mr Erdogan said that the agreed price was $920,000 but Mr Gould said that he needed $120,000 for a short time.

As a result the pair entered into a side contract in which Mr Gould agreed to pay the money back at the time of settlement. The money has still not been paid.

Mr Erdogan said that Mr Gould told him that if he was "silly enough to settle without the cheque" it was Mr Erdogan's problem. "Sue me. It'll take three or four years to get your money" was what Mr Erdogan alleged Mr Gould said to him.

When the media contacted Mr Gould, he said "Michael who?" before saying he knew nothing about a dispute involving a property. And when asked if he was aware that the Bandidos were looking for him, Mr Gould took a long pause before saying: "I'm sorry I can't answer the question because I don't know."

When asked about a bankruptcy in 1982, Mr Gould said: "Actually, funny enough I have been trying to find out when this particular person, who apparently had my name, and who apparently lives in Bellevue Hill, was bankrupt."

Mr Gould concluded by saying: "I'm sorry, I think you are confusing me with someone else. I have no conflicts and I certainly have no problems with the Bandidos, Commancheros or the whatever."

While Mr Erdogan said he knew nothing about bullets or Bandidos, he has paid $5000, with a 25 per cent success fee, to a "contract negotiator" from a debt recovery company, and "maybe he has friends in the Bandidos".

The Metro's administrator, Atle Crowe-Maxwell, from PKF chartered accountants, said more than $900,000 was owed to the Tax Office, promoters and performers.