Verdict..

[Quest Cyberfunk]

All i can say is i was quite sober that night and every single one of these stupid nonsense allegations are completely untrue and unfounded..the guy must have been in a different room or tripping off his head.. It is an attack on me because its complete and utter bollox what he's said and i take things like that very seriously as i don't ever want people thinking i would so much as think those things let alone say them..mean shit like

"oh he also took the piss out of Kent saying kent and good night dont go together"

wtf does STIR have to do with Kent? i've never played a breaks party in Kent since about 4 years ago?!?!?!?!?

and hello Calla

[Jemo]

Hi mate ...

Walking out that room I wasnt the only person who said exactly the same thing .... I dont know anyone personally, but I do remember having a chat with a girl with devil horns on about the end of your set .... (which isnt going to be much use right now ha ha )

At the end of the set a real drawn out slow peice of shite was played, it was teasing the audience, I think it was a little shit how you done that, even after people begging for one more tune ... I understand music has to come off at a certain time, I just think its a pisstake knowing people want breaks and instead giving some drawn out slow build up/down and then turning it off ....

A guy went up to give a flier to a night in Kent ( I believe it may have been canterbury ) and from behind the booth the words , 'Kent and good night dont go together' .... this may have been said as a joke, but because I generally thought you had a bit of attitude I took it at face value and it dented my opinion even further .....

I aint a milicious person mate, I am just telling people how I thought the night panned out, yes other things may have been involved , but these had no implications of what I saw and heard .....

Maybe you are a top guy, I dont know as I dont know you, but I thought personally you had a bit of an attitude up there .... Just like you think I am a liar and whatever else ......

At the end of the day I am saying what I heard, in regards to the council tax thing, something was said along the lines of, ' do you pay ther council tax ' pay your coucil tax ' or something along those lines .... again I thought this was abit more attitude, when people are asking for one more tune I thought you could have said something diffrent from that ......

If I have said something to offend you then sorry.....

[Quest Cyberfunk]

haha wtf??

i said to the person that gave me a flyer that i never knew breaks parties went on in Canterbury which is a good thing that people are putting breaks on the map in cities that haven't had breaks nights before??? jesus christ!! (I never even knew Canterbury was in Kent till u just pointed it out!!! i thought it was next to Cambridge!)! And they never gave me a flyer behind the decks..it was way earlier in the night on the dancefloor thank u..I even said for them to give me a ding/email and i'll come down to support it...

And as for last tune, it was a dubsteppy/breakstep tune on Supercharged!(called Sludge) go check it mate, hardly f**kin ten minutes...Sorry YOU never liked it but it seemed by the amount of people dancing, u were in the minoirty (as are most forum trolls).. i then got told to turn off the music as it was end of the night which i did..I'm not in the habit of pssing off sound engineers / promoters by ignorning them thanks... I don't know what the fuck else u mean about council tax, maybee someone else said it but i never said that in a million years thank u...

End of convo from me.. not gonna drag myself to this level anymore of having to explain myself to a liar or at the very least, an extremley confused person.....

[admin]

Oh dear.

Hello, DJ Quest (presuming you are who you say you are). I see Jemo has said things about what happened during your set and you strongly dispute his version of events. Fair enough. Some things have turned out to be misunderstandings, e.g. the Canterbury leaflet, while others are differences of opinion, e.g. the final tune.

Jemo may have got some of the specific things he said wrong, we all know how confusing things can get in a noisy club environment at 6am. I wasn't there during your set, so I'll never know for sure who's right and who's wrong - but either way, your strong rebuttals are here for all to see.

But I have to say that the general thrust of what Jemo was saying - that you came across as being full of "attitude" - is proven by the tone of of your own messages here. I think I should also point out that the reason I missed your set is that two of my friends, both of whom are well known on the London breaks scene, boycotted your set on a matter of principle due to what they (and others) see as your persistent spamming and bigging up of yourself on other forums.

That is a real pity, as I know others who speak very highly of your mixes and production. Perhaps you could do with developing a thicker skin, especially at this stage in your career? How many times do you think someone like Fatboy Slim sees comments on forums by people bitching about his mixing skills, his tune selection etc? How do you think he would look if he resorted to hounding his critics on piddling little forums like this to save face? Surely his best response is to continue playing sets to hundreds of thousands of people who've come to see him doing things his way?

It's up to you, it's your career, but I think I know which of the two approaches is more likely to work in the long run.

Anyway, you've said your piece and hopefully that's the end of it. Jemo is a valued member here. He may be as daft as a brush at times but I don't believe he has a malicious bone in his body. You'll be welcome to stick around here too if you like, as long as you abide by our rules like everyone else.

[Quest Cyberfunk]

so let me get this right.. someone spouts absolute lies and unfounded allegations about me and i'm not allowed to defend myself? I actually feel sorry for you too that an admin needs to get childish and personal with the other unfounded comments/allegations..

I have extremly thickskin but when people want to sprout lies and speak of events that never happen, then i am entitled to defend myself thanks whether that may come across as having a bad attitude to a FEW of you or not.....

thanks and i'm done here

[admin]

so let me get this right.. someone spouts absolute lies and unfounded allegations

Except that most of the incidents alluded to by Jemo turned out to have happened after all, as you have admitted in subsequent posts once things were further clarified (e.g. the leaflet incident). You had a very different recollection of the same events, which is fair enough, but it turns out they weren't "absolute lies" after all. It seems the one specific claim that is still in dispute between you is the "council tax" comment. However, your rebuttal of this and other claims are now a matter of record, so maybe we should leave it at that.

i'm not allowed to defend myself?

You were "allowed" to defend yourself several times. I had no issue with that. I do have an issue with the tone of your posts and the unnecessary personal abuse towards Jemo. A simple statement that these incidents didn't happen would have sufficed.

I actually feel sorry for you too that an admin needs to get childish and personal

Look who's talking.

with the other unfounded comments..

I'll leave it up those individuals to back up those comments if they wish.

I have extremly thickskin

*cough*

thanks and i'm done here

So be it. Mind the door doesn't bump your arse...

[jimmybrayks]

I was standing next to Quest for his entire set pretty much doing the radio broadcast on NSB, I heard the last tune, i liked that, but didnt see anyone with flyers, or hear questy make any comments about anything - he spoke to me a few times and then went. There were several other DJs and promoters next to and inside the booth, one of which was the organiser of the room, maybe one of them was to "blame" (for something I never heard).

Admin - i dont know who you are - but you seem to of got A LOT wrong about Quest here... Quest is not full of attitude?? Spam? (never seen it) And as for him defending himself, he is not saying "im a good mixer" he's objecting to someone putting words in his mouth.

Your retaliation is unfound for here, not his.

Just listen to yourself :

so let me get this right.. someone spouts absolute lies and unfounded allegations

Except that most of the incidents alluded to by Jemo turned out to have happened after all, as you have admitted in subsequent posts once things were further clarified (e.g. the leaflet incident). You had a very different recollection of the same events, which is fair enough, but it turns out they weren't "absolute lies" after all. It seems the one specific claim that is still in dispute between you is the "council tax" comment. However, your rebuttal of this and other claims are now a matter of record, so maybe we should leave it at that.

i'm not allowed to defend myself?

You were "allowed" to defend yourself several times. I had no issue with that. I do have an issue with the tone of your posts and the unnecessary personal abuse towards Jemo. A simple statement that these incidents didn't happen would have sufficed.

I actually feel sorry for you too that an admin needs to get childish and personal

Look who's talking.

with the other unfounded comments..

I'll leave it up those individuals to back up those comments if they wish.

I have extremly thickskin

*cough*

thanks and i'm done here

So be it. Mind the door doesn't bump your arse...

How old are you mate?

Im not starting fights here, Im an impartial middle man between the lot of you.

Admin - if you are Sperge, then ive really really made a serious error in my judgement about you when we have met, you seemed like a sound guy, but the above is.... just a bit weird... hey, its a monday, comdowns are in place...

[Jemo]

I have no reason to come onto a website and lie ..... If however it was some other promoters/dj's who said it fair enough and sorry, though I am 99% certain it was you .... I remember very clearly exactly what I thought/heard/saw as I walked out the room chatting to some others ... If however it wasnt then someone must have spiked me with acid or something and I clearly must be deluded .... there was a handful left on the main dancefloor, along with me, and I clearly remember everyone being very dissapointed at you not playing another tune , and not exactly 'loving it' as you say ....

[Sperge]

Admin - i dont know who you are - but you seem to of got A LOT wrong about Quest here... Quest is not full of attitude??

Hello, Jimmy. Yes, Admin is me when I'm using the admin account.

I can only go by Quest's posts here, all four of which are absolutely dripping with "attitude" in my opinion. The people I mentioned who chose to stay away from Quest's set are known to us both and if I revealed who they were, then you would agree that they are sound people. However, it's not for me to identify them, it's up to them to make themselves known if they wish.

Of course Quest has every right to defend himself - something which he wasn't prevented from doing in any way. I did have an issue with the tone of his posts and the unnecessary personal abuse towards Jemo. A simple statement that these incidents didn't happen would have sufficed. That's the way professionals usually conduct themselves, in my experience. His very first words on here - "whilst i never give internet trolls and shit talkers any ammunition..." - are hardly the way to win friends and influence people, now are they?

You're entitled to your opinion about my replies, of course, but I just don't see it your way at all. I also don't agree that you're being the "impartial middleman", you're quite clearly defending Quest just as I'm defending one of my board regulars. My second post may have been a bit kneejerk for your liking but I was in a hurry to get out the door to go to work. However, I don't see your point at all regarding my first post, which I feel was a model of restraint compared to what I saw as Quest's hissy fits.

I've now edited out the words that Jemo attributed to Quest (apart from things that don't seem to be in dispute any more, such as the Canterbury thing, and other things that are simply differences of opinion such as the last track). This is only fair, since Quest denies saying them and Jemo does not appear to be in a position to prove them (unless "the girl with devil horns" happens to read this and comes forward).

Can we now draw a line under this?

[shakyjane]

What I fail to understand is why Jem's comments are so significant? As you said, you had a good crowd dancing at STIR, so what does one fairly small bloke on fairly small forum really represent? Jem's comments werent even commented on by the other members of this board, so its not like he was in the process of starting the 'lets hate Quest' club. Jem is a really good friend of mine and I hate to see him slagged off in such a vicious fashion over something so silly

[Sperge]

Sorry to cut you off in mid-stream, shaky, but on reflection I think it's best to draw a line under this one now. It seems the main thing that was upsetting Quest was words being attributed to him which he says he didn't say. That's understandable enough.

I would far rather he had just said "actually, I never said that" and hadn't tried to make such a huge mountain out of a molehill but what's done is done now. I know you feel it's always best to let things run their course but I think this is one occasion where letting things drag on will only make them worse. Let's just move on.

"Move along, folks, nothing to see."