A British house music producer whose 1999 anthem became a global club staple is set to headline a St. Petersburg brewery this Saturday. John Graham, performing under his long-running Quivver alias, plays The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Co. on Saturday, joining a bill with local promoter Serious Soul, resident DJ Brian Busto, and a back-to-back set from Livi Baby and Sonic Vision's Saik.
Graham has spent more than three decades building one of dance music's deepest catalogs. As Creative Loafing Tampa reports, he uses Quivver alongside other monikers, has released tracks including “Love You Better” on Anjunadeep and “Running” on Bedrock, and has collaborated with Mike and Charlotte Truman of Hybrid as well as Mick Park and Nic Britton of Tilt. Earlier this summer, Quivver performed a live set at the tent stage during Anjunadeep Explorations in Albania, according to the same report.
From UK Jungle to Global Club Anthem
Graham's production career actually started in the early 1990s, when he released darkside jungle and drum & bass under the alias Skanna before branching into the progressive house and trance sounds that would define his career under the names Quivver, Space Manoeuvres, and Stoneproof, according to Balance Music. It was under the Space Manoeuvres name that Graham released “Stage One” in 1999 on Hooj Choons, a progressive house track that sampled the 1997 sci-fi film Event Horizon and went on to become a global club classic, per Hooj Choons.
Graham's reach extends well past the dancefloor. He has scored and produced soundtrack music for major Hollywood projects including Shrek Forever After, along with video game trailers for franchises like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Batman: Arkham City, according to Graham's biography on Resident Advisor. In 2001, he held a DJ residency at New York's famed Twilo nightclub and mixed the Transport 5 compilation for Kinetic Records during a stretch that saw him land on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list for more than five consecutive years, per Wikipedia.
Recent Albums Keep Quivver In The Conversation
Graham's studio output hasn't slowed with age. In October 2021, Quivver released his third full-length album, Revelate, on John Digweed's Bedrock Records, a 10-track project spanning ambient, breakbeat, melodic house, and techno. Then in May 2024, he teamed up with British DJ Dave Seaman for Balance Presents Dave Seaman and Quivver, a joint compilation released by Australia's Balance Music after three years of production and curation, per the same Balance Music interview.
Bringing that global résumé to St. Petersburg is Serious Soul, the underground house and techno promotion brand that has been staging events across Tampa Bay since 1995, according to its Resident Advisor promoter page. Serious Soul holds a residency at The Nest, and co-founder Brian Busto — who is supporting the Quivver bill — has built long-running residencies at venues including The Castle in Ybor City, Mandarin Heights in Seminole Heights, and Subcentral at The Iberian Rooster, per his own Resident Advisor profile.
A Brewery-Turned-Venue Hosts An International Headliner
The show unfolds in a space that started as a simple taproom. St. Pete Brewing Co. opened its craft brewery at 544 1st Ave N in 2014, and in September 2021 the business expanded into an adjacent space to launch The Nest as a dedicated performance lounge, as Hoodline previously reported. That expansion has turned an otherwise modest brewery into one stop on a stacked local nightlife circuit; per 2024 Visit St. Pete/Clearwater tourism data, downtown St. Petersburg holds more than 10 craft taprooms within a two-mile radius, making breweries like this one key incubators for local live music and arts.
Tickets to see Quivver alongside Busto, Saik, and Livi Baby at The Nest start at $24.80 for the Saturday show. The pairing marks the latest chapter in Serious Soul's history of bringing international electronic acts into intimate Tampa Bay rooms, a tradition Hoodline has tracked before, including a 2019 preview of a Serious Soul and Busto show at The Castle in Ybor City and a separate 2019 look at Quivver performing alongside Dave Seaman in Los Angeles.
