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As a rule, bouncers aren't renowned for being pushovers or easily duped - and it's a brave person who tries to do otherwise.

Slurring "I'm not drunk" or indignantly insisting that you're "with the band" tend to have a very low success rate.

With a little bit of cunning, however - and good Wifi signal - it's not totally out of the question.

Just ask Adam Boyd.

The teenager from Crewe managed to blag his way in to The Sherlocks' gig in Manchester on Friday armed simply with his phone and some slick editing skills.

A fan of the band, Adam and his friends had in fact already bought tickets, but had arrived late owing to a delayed train and were stuck with a "sh***" view of the stage.

Most people would have grudgingly accepted this fate, settling instead for silently casting daggers at all the people in the way and a mediocre musical experience.

Not Adam.

Adam had a plan, though it admittedly involved a bit of Dutch courage.

Noticing a bouncer guarding the VIP section, Adam explained, "In my drunken state I edited the band's Wikipedia page to say I was family, and it worked! I got into the roped off VIP area because of it."

Here's the edit.

(Image: Adam Boyd/Facebook)

Adam tweaked The Sherlocks' Wikipedia page so it not only said he was cousin of lead singer Kiaran Crook, but that he was the influence for the band's first single Live for the Moment.

Adam later revealed that we so close to the band he could "see their watches".

Here's his VIP view.

(Image: Adam Boyd/Facebook)

He told The Sun , "I'm usually quite confident with others when I'm drunk, which probably helped in the situation with the bouncer.

"From what I can remember, he had the rope going across the door, and refused to let me in, until I explained I was one of the band members' cousins, and obviously he didn't believe that, either.

"I was trying to find some way to 'prove' I was family. That's when I ‘remembered’ about being credited on Wikipedia, although I had changed it minutes beforehand, and showed him he and said 'Fair enough' and let me past.

"I guess luck was on my side, either that or a gullible bouncer?"