IT WAS a 41st birthday celebration that Scott Orrock will not forget.

It ended with Orrock, the newly elected national president of the Nomad bikie gang, being shot in the leg by one of three unidentified fellow gang members.

The three had come to his rescue as he tried to oust a drunken gatecrasher from a private nightclub striptease enjoyed by Orrock, police have alleged.

How Orrock came to be accidentally shot in the leg at 1.20am on March 26, during a brawl inside Showgirls in Darlinghurst Road, was detailed in an eight-page police statement presented by gang squad detectives to Newtown Local Court yesterday.

Orrock, who was sergeant-at-arms of the Nomad's Granville club before his promotion, was banned by court order yesterday from attending any major Nomad gatherings.

The Marrickville father was also ordered to associate with no more than two members of the gang at any one time and not to go anywhere in Kings Cross other than to his place of business, the Green Sleeves tattoo shop.

Orrock, his hair in a ponytail, was visibly upset when the magistrate Suzanne Seagrave imposed restrictions, including a home curfew between 7pm and 8am.

Orrock, who also operates Skin Deep Tattoo in King Street, Newtown, was appearing before the court charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by refusing to tell police who had shot him.

Police alleged the shooting, in which the gatecrasher, described as "one of a group of islanders" from a Liverpool sporting club out on a drunken bucks night, stumbled into Orrock's solo viewing of two strippers.

The man, whose name was not released, refused to leave and after a struggle, Orrock is alleged to have called for help from three alleged Nomad members nearby.

But they, too, found the gatecrasher a handful, and it was during the second struggle that Orrock and the gatecrasher were both shot in the leg, police alleged.

The wounded gatecrasher then rejoined his mates, who later took him to Liverpool Hospital for treatment.

Police yesterday opposed a bail application from Orrock.

They also alleged that during their investigation Nomad gang adhered to a creed of non-co-operation with police. Orrock, who was also charged with using a carriage service to menace and harass, possession of three prohibited weapons and ammunition, was granted $50,000 bail and ordered to surrender his passport.

He will appear before the Downing Centre Local Court on October 26.