Legends of the Leisure Bowl Presents
Club Kinetic Reunion
Saturday 13^th September 2025
Keele University
Stoke on Trent

For those who don't know, Club Kinetic one of the legendary promotions from the Midlands during the 90's. Kinetic would attract ravers from all over the country to the Leisurebowl in Stoke on a weekly basis a plethora of rave royalty have graced the doors at Kinetic. Notorious for that harder faster sound of hardcore especially in the mid 90's.

The concept of the event was the brain child of Alex Energy and Stacie having an annual get together with no date (only month) or venue announced the momentum grew and tickets were selling, it was fair to say the beast was unleashed.

I expected another intimate Legends of the Leisure Bowl party at Jollees but in true Alex and Stacie fashion they took it to another level and announced that they will be returning back to Keele University home to Illusion, a colossal line-up was booked featuring many of the favourites from years gone by.

Saturday finally came and I zipped up the M6 and got to Keele for around 5.30pm, plenty of free parking at the student union car park just as I arrived my old friends Vibes and Livelee had just arrived as they searched for a parking spot I headed off to the venue. There was no queue as the party was in full flow you could hear the music pumping out into the balcony, was greeted on the door by Alex and Stacie, after a brief search from the friendly security I was straight in.

Headed up the stairs and into the main arena Stokes very own Andy Tekno was on, production in here was pretty impressive. Stage set up had massive LED screen complimented with numerous led lights on either side of the dj stand with a thundering sound system.

Andy and MC Lox were warming up the crowd keeping it oldskool with a strictly vinyl set playing a more Kinetic Digital set it was hard but not too furious during the early hours of the party. I was hoping for a little dutch bouncy techno from Andy, though he pointed out to me he'd be playing those Pengo classics later on in arena 2.

Up next was the Essex boys as Stoke was about to be entertained by the infamous Vibes and Livelee show, soon as Livelee said his infamous 'oi oi' the main arena filled up instantly. Vibes opened up the set with 'Techno wonderland' and moved onto 'Toytown'.

Livelee had the crowd reciting and singing his lyrics throughout the set including 'My name is....', 'Pills in your pocket' and '20 years ago ( think this classic needs a little update ). Vibes carried onto to play 'All I need', 'Rave Theme', 'Love of my life', before finishing of with 'Nakatomi – Free'.

Following on from Vibes and Livelee was Seduction and Mad P, it's been an absolute age since I last heard Seduction play a 94-96. It's kinda rare seeing him on a line-up these days with him now living abroad and he did not disappoint. Seduction opened up with 'No more tears' which I was not expecting !!!

Was an interesting combination having Mad P as he reeled off his infamous lyrics throughout the set, Seduction upped the tempo with classics including 'Bust a new jam', ' Tasty Tunes Vol. 1' of course its not a Seduction set without an appearance of 'Hardcore heaven'. Seduction dropped the timeless Scott brown classic 'Now is the time' which saw the dance floor explode.

Seduction and Mad P had to dash off to Sheffield after their set and Scorpio took control of the decks, this set was strictly for the head strong. Perfect time for a breather and headed off to the 2^nd room in the student union bar for a cold drink and a catch up with some of my old raving pals. After cooling down and re-energised we headed back to the madness of the main arena to catch the tail end of Scorpio who ensured the beats were hard and fast.

Next up was the return of the Scratchmaster and hardcore legend that is DJ Sy, alongside MC Energy. Sy opened up with 'Midas - Groove Control', MC Energy was controlling the crowd throughout was like a PT instructor mid work out ! Well it's not a Sy set without his trademark scratch patterns and signature selection that kept the crowd bouncing playing party favourites such as 'Kick it', 'Like prayer', 'Cloudy Daze', 'Q-Tex - Equazion Part 9' before dropping my all time favourite from Sy & Demo 'Stay with me' instantly took me straight back in time to 25 years ago being a teenager at the legendary Sanctuary Milton Keynes - Millennium Jam.

It was time to clear my throat and get those vocal chords ready for some hardcore karaoke as we had the Force & Styles Experience featuring DJ Force, Jenna and MC Charlie B. Jenna was lively on the stage as she got everyone singing whilsts reaching for the lasers to the all mighty 'Field of dreams'.

The set was littered with plenty of Force and Styles classics including 'Follow me', 'Heart of Gold', 'Pacific Sun' and 'Pretty green eyes' (RIP Junior). With the crowd singing Charlie B complemented the music whilst DJ Force continued with 'Braveheart' along with a few bits featured on their recent Remember the vibe boxset including 'If not Today', 'On a ragga tip', 'All systems go' and 'Simply electric'.

Final set of the night came from the original Club Kinetic residents DJ Demand and MC Connie. This was the power hour as Demand kept it hard and bouncy throughout including his own signature track 'Jumpin Pumpin'. The voice of Kinetic MC Connie ensured the crowd maintained their energy levels for the final 60 minutes especially when Demand switched to the bouncy Dutch classics including 'Burnin love', 'Don't leave me alone' and 'Wonderful days' of course Demand did not let the Kinetic faithful down as he dropped the Leisurebowl monster anthem 'Diss Reaction – Jiiieehaaaa'.

What a fantastic night from Alex and Stacie really had a great night the music policy was perfect hearing happy hardcore from 94 onwards. Sets in the main arena were spot on a few anthems thrown in for good measure everyone pretty much stuck to script. We all know that Kinetic's Brisk has moved away to Australia and having him to play tonight would have been the icing on the cake. Demand ensured we got those Dutch classics thrown in and kept it bouncy and hard in true Kinetic style.

I was glad the rave was at Keele as much as I do love an intimate party it would have been a sweat box with tonight attendance crammed into smaller capacity venue with everyone bouncing around to those hard beats.

Once again thanks to Alex and Stacie for putting a great party you guys will never retire and seeing everyone in the crowd behaving like teenagers again is absolutely priceless and this is why you guys put on memorable nights like tonight..

Massive shouts to Alex Stacie and the Kinetic Team, Mad P, Seduction, Sy, Vibes and Livelee, Force, Jenna, Charlie B, Demand, Connie, Sallie, Gaz Compassion, Shauny C, Ant D-Ice, Damien Reality, Dan, Brian BK, Ranski, Andy Tekno and Marie, Del Orion, Ginger Jim, X-Cell, also to everyone else whose names I don't' know but faces I recognise.