OxyKon Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Taken from In The Mixhttp://www.inthemix.com.au/news/intl/53 ... lum_behindIn a recent interview with triple j’s Linda Marigliano, Rob Swire (one half of ‘seizure music’ specialists Knife Party with Gareth McGrillen) seemed to suggest that they won’t be revisiting their former band Pendulum any time soon, speaking about it in the past tense. While Pendulum was said to be taking a year off, Swire’s comments suggest it’ll likely be longer than that.“The Knife Party thing is going so well we don’t really feel like going back to junior school anytime soon,” Swire told triple j. “I guess we’d been doing Pendulum for ten years and that’s a pretty long time to be doing anything I guess. We were still playing tracks like Blood Sugar that we made when we were 18 or 19. To still be doing that 10 years later, it just felt like time to do something else.“I don’t know if we’ve outgrown it because it just evolved into something else in the end. But it was time for something new and the music scene itself had changed. Rock bands are having a pretty hard time at the moment and we weren’t a rock band but with Pendulum we had the band format. We just decided that in 2012 it was time to put that down for a bit.“The Knife Party thing is going so well we don’t really feel like going back to junior school anytime soon. We’re having too much fun with this project. It’s also great because Pendulum towards the end sort of felt like we were doing it because we had to and that’s never a fun way to do music. Whereas Knife Party is pretty much solely us doing what we want to and if no one likes it we don’t care.” Quote
MelodyIlliterate Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Good read, Happy for them, loved pendulum, but rather them go out on a high then sit there and force out tracks that could turn to shit and ruin the reputation of the band Quote
mattus123 Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 but i love pendulum!!i always thought that was the great thing about them, they had hte band setup but were playing kickass EDMas melody said though, its good they are going out on a high thoughbig ups to those boys though, if it wasn't for them, i wouldn't be into EDM at all Quote
OxyKon Posted June 19, 2012 Author Posted June 19, 2012 yeah i kinda saw it coming when they started their live shows back in the day, was only a matter of time when they decided to pull the plug Quote
SolDios Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 NO WITH ALL MY POWER I DENY THEM FROM QUITTINGI never got a chance to see them live, and they where my fave band :'CI did see it coming though...I wouldn't exactly call immersion a high note, it was good, but it wasn't really "Pendulum" if you know what I mean, e.g. Self vs SelfIt was abit of a "Something for everyone" album, which I hate the very concept of.Band's shouldn't try to cater for everyone, otherwise you end up with an mixed up audience each only liking 10% of there music.ON THE OTHER HAND IN SILICO IS A ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE.I hope they do a tour just for old time's sake in 5 years or so. Quote
OxyKon Posted June 19, 2012 Author Posted June 19, 2012 Trust me sol, you didn't miss much from their live show, I wish I had seen their dj sets before they formed the band, that was when they were kings Quote
MelodyIlliterate Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 I saw that at Future 2011 (i think), but i remember the ambience was massive! didnt get a good look at the stage but the crowd was going off, was hectic... think i was crowd surfing at one point Quote
mattus123 Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Trust me sol, you didn't miss much from their live show, I wish I had seen their dj sets before they formed the band, that was when they were kingsnotsureifserious.jpgwhen i saw them live, i thought they were amazingthe engery in the room was better than any festival i have been toi still rate seeing pendulum as my #1 concert... (actually maybe 2nd after ASOT)that was what i liekd about pendulum, is they did it live rather than DJ. was something a bit differnet.. and they were actualy playing the instruments rather than mixing songs. i thought it was more impressive Quote
OxyKon Posted June 19, 2012 Author Posted June 19, 2012 Imverysrs.jpgThe 1 album I have of there's on wax is hold your colour, that's the way I know pendulum, I saw them at BDO as I live set an I was very disappointed, and I've seen YouTube clips of them when they were a 3 piece dnb set and they were amazing, the 1st 2hr mix I ever had on and iPod was their essential mix back from 2003, that's whn I started to catch the dnb bug Quote
GREMM1S Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Good move for all dnb wasnt doing it for them anymore better to change it up than fade away making a genre you no longer like, plus that could have meant no knife party lol Quote
mattus123 Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 hmmmwhen i saw them it was their own show, so every single person in the crowd was there entirely for them, maybe that made the differencedifferent strokes for different folks i suppose Quote
GREMM1S Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Not really a pendulum fan but always liked this song Quote
SolDios Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Seriously though, go to jb-hifi, buy there "Live at brixton" DVD, put it on with a really good home stereo system. Then sit back and relax for a 90 minute ear orgasm Quote
OxyKon Posted June 19, 2012 Author Posted June 19, 2012 This song is absolute perfection:download my latest set form the dnb section, achally closed it with this track Quote
LabRat Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 Trust me sol, you didn't miss much from their live show, I wish I had seen their dj sets before they formed the band, that was when they were kingsI went to the In Silico launch (at Metro City, FYI for Perth peeps) and yeah, whoever didn't go missed out HARD! best show I've ever been to so far Quote
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