Pendulum in Boston, Oct 1, Middle East

Pendulum formed in their home-town of Perth (Western Australia) in 2002, when

producers Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen teamed up with acclaimed local DJ Paul

'Elhornet' Harding. While their individual formative roots ranged from

producing drum & bass, breakbeat and hardcore, to playing in metal and punk

bands, their comparable talents proved an unstoppable force when they managed

to single-handedly conquer the world of drum & bass in their first 12 months

together.

After selling more than 225,000 units of their debut artist album "Hold Your

Colour", remixing for such respected artists as The Prodigy, being play-listed

and featuring regularly on BBC Radio 1, all whilst continuing to tour the world

over as DJs...Pendulum decided that was finally time to take things to the next

level - performing live.

The last 12 months have seen Pendulum retreat to the depths of the underground

to work on their second album, and to hone and perfect their sound for the live

arena.

So apart from that, what the hell are Pendulum all about? In the words of the

boys themselves...

"We want our music to be an escape. While technology continues to constantly

advance production techniques and (arguably) sound quality, something has been

lost in the process - that original sense of self-escape, the idea of leaving

yourself open to experience something you don't necessarily find in every-day

life. That was the energy we picked up on and liked about electronic music when

we first got into it. It felt like the same energy found with bands like Led

Zeppelin and even The Beatles, and still occasionally today with bands like

Tool, The Mars Volta, Queens Of The Stone Age and others.

To us, it made perfect sense to combine the best of both worlds, but it had to

be done in a way that didn't make it sound obvious. In the last 10 years you've

had all these bands that tried to cross the bridge by recruiting a turntablist

/ using a synthesizer on their new single, or electronic artists who just threw

an obvious guitar sample into a tune...but eventually it just came across as a

gimmick or a bit cheesy. We thought we'd try and do it properly, because to us

it still hasn't been done right and theres a lot of room for exploration.

If you turn on the radio today you'll hear 20 tracks in a row describing

someone's every-day life, or songs with a one-line catchphrase chorus about

shaking your ass in the club - the production is usually great but when you

look deeper, there's nothing behind it...it doesn't offer you anything past its

face value. We want to hear something different and exciting, but the material

we want to hear isn't getting made. Thats why we spend nearly every waking

moment trying to create music that takes you out of this universe - for

ourselves and anyone else who wants to listen."

here is the flyer:

two local drum and bass DJs, who put on the longest running D&B night in boston

(Elements, Thursday at the Phoenix Landing) who absolutely are incredible in

their own right will be opening (DJs Lenore and Crook).

here is more info:

The Middleast - Cambridge

18+

Doors: 9pm - 1am

tickets 14.50 in advance

Tickets available at www.wantickets.com/embrace

Rest of the North American tour:

# 01 Oct 2008 Middle East Boston, USA

# 03 Oct 2008 House of Blues Chicago, USA

# 04 Oct 2008 Kool Haus Toronto, Canada

# 05 Oct 2008 IRock Detroit, USA

# 07 Oct 2008 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, USA

# 09 Oct 2008 Blue Bird Theatre Denver, USA

# 11 Oct 2008 Murray Theatre Salt Lake City, USA

# 13 Oct 2008 The Mayan Los Angeles, USA

# 14 Oct 2008 The Fillmore San Francisco, USA

# 18 Oct 2008 MOTORKR Mexico City, Mexico

# 19 Oct 2008 MOTORKR Guadalajara, Mexico

# 22 Oct 2008 The Loft Atlanta, USA

# 24 Oct 2008 Ottobar Baltimore, USA

# 25 Oct 2008 Webster Hall New York, USA

# 26 Oct 2008 Bowery Ballroom New York, USA

Link for tickets

fucking pendulum lol

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not sure what to make of this

lol

lol, i was around in the perth scene when rob swire was making freakin' awesome hard drum'n'bass as anscenic, i played a gig with him once. also apparently he used to be in a goth band with a friend of mine. and now fucking pendulum?? zole!