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Origin: Perth, Australia
Genre: Rock
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Pendulum
Pendulum is an Australian-born English drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002. Pendulum originally formed in the Australian city of Perth, Western Australia by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding. Rob and Gareth also constitute the electro house duo Knife Party (the original Australian members). The group was notable for a distinctive sound, mixing hard rock with electronic music, and developing to cover a wider range of genres. Swire and McGrillen were members of the metal band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict’s “Messiah” at a club, they were inspired to enter into the Drum & Bass genre. They founded Pendulum with Paul Harding, who was a veteran DJ in the Drum & Bass scene. In 2003, the band relocated to the United Kingdom. While Hold Your Colour holds true to the Drum & Bass genre, Pendulum have since experimented with mixing other genres into their work, as can be heard on In Silico and Immersion. In August 2013, Swire announced that a new album may be released “some time next year” (2014), although Swire and McGrillen later confessed on their Reddit AMA that they had become disillusioned with Pendulum and have no interest at present in producing any new material. Despite this, on December 16, 2015, Pendulum were confirmed to be reuniting to perform at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida, marking their official return as a live band.
In 2006, Pendulum’s old label Breakbeat Kaos released an album containing a 2-year-old Pendulum DJ mix without their permission, resulting in group member Rob Swire later denouncing the album on public Internet forum Dogs On Acid.[44] This issue has since been resolved; DJ Fresh is included on the list of acknowledgements in the Immersion booklet, and Pendulum is now working with Breakbeat Kaos again, on the vinyl release of the singles “Witchcraft” and “The Island”.
Electronic musician Goldie has criticised Pendulum’s single “Granite” for being what he calls a “shit single”, and accused the band of not acknowledging the drum and bass scene from which they came.[46] For the band’s part, in an interview with The Times Swire cited “Goldie making concept albums about space and his mum” (in the words of The Times reporter) as one of the reasons why he was not initially keen on the genre; he claims to have been more into “breakbeat, straight up house and hardcore” before Gareth McGrillen, who is Pendulum’s bassist and was Swire’s bandmate in Xygen, introduced him to “more electronic” areas of the genre. This issue has since been resolved as well, according to Gareth McGrillen in an interview on The Age.
Members
Live band line-up (Active)
Rob Swire – vocals, synths, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, production (2002–present)
Gareth McGrillen – bass guitar, backing vocals, production (2002–present)
Ben Mount – MC (2006–present)
Peredur ap Gwynedd – guitars (2006–present)
KJ Sawka – drums (2009–present)
DJ set line-up (Active)
Ben Mount – MC (2008–present)
Paul “El Hornet” Harding – DJ (2002–present)
Former members
Paul Kodish – drums (2006–2009)
Touring members
(These members performed during Pendulum’s transition into a live band prior to the acquisition of guitarist Peredur Ap Gwynedd and MC Ben Mount as permanent members.)
Matt White – guitar (2006–2008)
MC Jakes – MC (2006–2008)