Quest
34 Years of Vibes
Twelve
Wolverhampton
Saturday 20th September 2025

After the success of the roadblock homecoming event over Easter, the Quest crew returned back to Wolverhampton to present ‘34 Years of Vibes’. This time around the event was held downstairs in the newly refurbished Twelve formally Picasso’s and more recently the Slade room when I was last here in 2011.

The lineup was pretty stacked featuring the Godfather’s Fabio and Grooverider alongside GQ playing a 2 hour set, with early bird tickets only being £10, pretty unheard of for a line-up of this calibre featuring wall to wall legends.

Hit the motorway and drive into Wolverhampton tho heading to Broad street I day got stuck in the football traffic along the ring road as it was match day. Once parked up headed to Twelve were I was greeted with a short queue, after a quick brief search from security headed inside the venue.

Managed to catch the tail end of legendary the Quest duo of Pilgrim and Scarlett with a 94-95 jungle selection as he was playing ‘Babylon – Splash’.

I was very intrigued to the refurbishment of the venue and was pretty blown away, the production was spot on, there was a massive stage where the dancers were entertaining the crowd throughout the night. With a pair of towering speaker stacks either side of the stage, the system was very beefy as you could feel the bass rumble. Dotted along the low ceiling were numerous lighting strips and strobes with a massive LED wall showing plenty of visuals.

Pilgrim rolled it out with jungle classics such as ‘Jump MK II’, ‘The way’, ‘Johnny’ before changing direction with ‘It's Started Again’. Stepping up after Pilgrim was Ratty and Mad P performing the Topbuzz legacy set. Looked like there was a technical issue at the beginning of Ratty’s set as he quickly switched from digital to playing on vinyl.

Ratty opened up with ‘Black rushin’ and with Mad P the pair took us on a journey through ‘93 darkside. Ratty was manipulating the mixer dropping darkside rumblers such as ‘Drum trip II’, ‘Antology’,’ I bring you da future’ and 'solutions’. Mad P complemented Ratty’s selection rolling with his infamous lyrics which the crowd would recite back to him as the duo closed the set with the Topbuzz classic ‘Maintain her’.

Following on was the turn of the jungle don, DJ Ron, been quite an avid fan of Ron especially in recent years with his London Something podcast. Ron carried on from Ratty and kept it ‘93 as he kicked off his set with the Noise Factory classic ‘Can you feel the rush’, ‘Why’ and ‘Rolling energy’. Birmingham’s original MC Lenni was on mic duties for this set commanding the stage and controlling the crowd throughout. Ron upped the tempo and switched to a jungle selection as he played ‘Warning’, ‘Yes Yes’, ‘The only one’ and ‘Dirty Games’

Taking over was Mix’n’Blen Kenny Ken as he played a jungle set with quite a number of remixes of classics thrown in switching back and fourth with tracks such as ‘Set speed’, ‘Runnin’s’, ‘Let’s go’ and ‘Scottie’ The Ragga Twins were on mic duties as Flinty Badman and Deman Rocker were in full flow great to see the legendary pair together again more so with Deman rocker’s recent health issues a true soldier. Kenny continued with 90’s jungle classics such as ‘Super sharp shooter VIP’, ‘Step on’, ‘Lunar bass’ and ‘Woo haa’ remix, to my surprise he dropped the acid house classic ‘Salsa House’ which got the Quest crowd jumping and stomping to the 4/4 !

Up next was the legendary DJ Fabio who opened up with the LTJ Bukem classic ‘ Music’ which had the crowd going wild. A varied selection from Fabio going in rather deep with ‘Riders ghost’, ‘How you make me feel‘, ‘Death of a rockstar’ and ‘Friday’, switching back and fourth through the different era’s of Jungle / Drum and Bass with the tracks such as ‘Free la funk’, ‘Sweet vibrations’ and ‘Clear skyz’ before he finished of with Peshay’s seminal classic ‘Piano tune’.

Closing the night was the Godfather Grooverider quite surprised as he went in with a more late 90’s in to the mid 00’s with his selection dropping the likes of ‘Alien girl’,‘Ready for love’, ‘Wolf – Dillinja remix’, ‘Number One’ and ‘Who you - Oi’ which sent the crowd ballistic!

The last two hours was hosted by GQ the voice of jungle drum and bass who just rolled it out coming in when needed, holding down the stage for 2 hours phenomenal work like the true veteran that he is.

Grooverider went into overtime mode as the clock struck midnight he carried on for an extra 15-20 minutes with the Twelve security having to kick him off the deck. Grooverider toned it down with an early 90’s jungle selection finishing off with‘ Helicopter’, ‘The way’ and closed the evening with Noise Factory 92 classic ‘Breakage #4 - I bring you the future’.

Enjoyed another chapter from the original Quest crew, the atmosphere and vibes were on point again a very diverse crowd with ravers of all ages in attendance. I preferred being downstairs in Twleve its a modern club, very intimate with the low ceiling the sound system felt better along with the production added with more modern amenities compared to upstairs, plus you had an air conditioned large bar lounge along with the outdoor chill out / smoking area to cool down in when it got rather hot and sticky inside.

Did think that tonight there was a bit too much post jungle compared to the previous event in April as the artists were dipping more into the Amazon era instead of Quest, the 2^nd half of the night was pretty much ‘95 and beyond. However I did notice that it did go crazy when ‘Salsa house’ got dropped maybe we could a see abit of ‘92 or earlier in the future?

Gez, Karl the Quest Crew, Lenni, Mad P, Pilgrim, Energy, Fabio, GQ, Grooverider, Kenny Ken, Ragga Twins, Tania UMC, Ed and Sarah, Nolidge, Danny Fibre Optic, G-Child, Brian BK, Shaun, Uttam, Donny, James from Suburban Sounds, Nick Smoove, Shezza, Clareabella, Minesh and Wayne F, Astro Dane, Big Choc also to everyone else whose names I don't' know but faces I recognise.