That was so exciting to us. It was a very quick jump from one pool into the next. While it was a close-knit community, it was very insular, so Pendulum looked to New Zealand band Concord Dawn for inspiration. When Pendulum band member Paul Harding was driving Concord Dawn to the venue, he asked if they wanted to hear a demo.
It received widespread critical acclaim and has made its way onto many 'best of' and 'essential' drum'n'bass compilations. After that initial hurdle, Swire says the track came together quickly, and shortly after Paul Harding played it to Concord Dawn in the car on the way to a gig, the band received an offer they couldn't refuse. With the band's total life savings at the time only able to cover a week's worth of rent in London, and the Aussie dollar barely a third of the value of the British Pound, it was simply too good an opportunity to pass up.
With a few hundred dollars to their name, the band moved to the UK. Something many Australian bands had done before, and many have since. You could hear miles away before you even got to the venue. Swire disapproved of this as he did not give permission for them to do so, and inevitably left the label.
The band finally released their debut album, 'Hold Your Colour', in At this time McGrillen began playing bass guitar at live shows and on some studio recordings.
Their second album, In Silico , was released on 12 May The response to this change was relatively positive from critics but was said to be dated by The Guardian. This was released on 12 June Pendulum once again toured Europe in During this tour they announced that they were working on their third studio album, Immersion.
It was announced in December that Pendulum would be touring for their new album in May The release date of the album was announced to be sometime "in May" during the live preview party at Matter , and was then announced to be released on 24 May.
It was stated however that it was a street-level release and was not an official single. On Zane Lowe's show, it was also announced that he wanted to join the band and the first single from the new album would be called " Watercolour ". The music video for "Watercolour" was released on 31 March and premiered on their MySpace page, and also in the members area of their official website, The Other Side.
A day later, on 1 April, another music video was released, this time for "Salt in the Wounds". The video is unique in that it is, according to the band's website, " Six letters are hidden throughout the video. Once these letters are found, the viewer can enter them as a code and claim a free download of "Salt in the Wounds".
Otherwise, "Watercolour" claimed the No. The second single from the album, " Witchcraft ", was released on 18 July and charted at No. Rob Swire had stated that if it had achieved greater success than "Witchcraft", he would have released a song entitled "Ransom", which was taken off Immersion before the album's release. As it did not do better, Swire revealed the original files for "Ransom" were corrupted, and that he has no plans to recreate them, therefore it will not be released.
However, on 6 April , Pendulum released "Ransom" as a single via their website with all proceeds going to the Help for Japan fund after the tsunami. Both the UK and US store were also given the music videos of those three tracks in the release. However, more remixes were released in the UK store along with extra videos, including a trailer of footage from their live show at Wembley Arena that took place on 28 May On 26 October , Swire announced that a new record was in the works.
This new record was set to be heavily punk influenced. The next album was expected to be a significant departure from usage of drum and bass tempo, for a faster tempo in the form of punk , and a slower tempo in the form of dubstep. On 29 March , Swire revealed that there would be no "new album" for a while.
He added that there would be "def new material" later in the year. On Mar. Neither of them remember it. It was the first time they'd played as the latter act since , reuniting at the request of Ultra's executive producer Adam Russakoff. The pressure was intense -- they weren't sure if their instruments were going to work due to technical issues.
When they got onstage, they both just kind of blacked out. An hour and fifteen minutes later, the show was over, and Pendulum was back.
Emerging out of Australia in the mid '00s, Pendulum didn't experience the same success in the U. Their sound was heavy, pummeling and often anthemic, thanks to McGrillen, Swire and third founding member Paul Harding. Dressed in all black and rarely photographed smiling, Pendulum was as much a rock band as an electronic act. Even in the U. But Pendulum took a backseat when Swire and McGrillen blew up with Knife Party, which achieved headliner status in the States during the dance music boom and placed the group alongside contemporaries like Kill the Noise, Nero, Flux Pavilion, Excision and other genre heavies.
Now, after 10 years of making music as Knife Party, the guys have returned to Pendulum. The impetus for the comeback started with that Ultra Show, which led them to create the music that would eventually become "Nothing For Free" and "Driver," both out today Sept. Before quarantine, the group was testing out the music with sets throughout Australia and New Zealand, and while both currently quarantined at their homes in London, in Pendulum is set to play big deal electronic festivals including We Are FSTVL, Creamfields, Ultra Europe.
Here Swire and McGrillen discuss Pendulum's return, why they hated bass music and why albums are no longer necessary. Swire: [We've] definitely got a love-hate relationship with it. I think the scene had quite a hard time accepting us, especially in the underground.
Second of all, one of guys wants to sing and the other guys wants to play a f--king bass. It changed from some weird EDM-sounding trap thing, which was awful, then it turned into some other shit before we finally ended up with it on the way it is.
Kudos to our managers for realising that. It is strange how that happens. It was written before happened. It was fairly unnerving to be in a room with 20 people after all that time, but my startledness kind of works in the video. Pendulum at Snowbombing.
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