Those of you with tickets to see Pendulum at Brixton Academy and the Astoria this weekend are in for a real treat.
The Aussies unveiled the new show at a private party for superfans and industry types at Fabric last night. As well as a clutch of their hardest hitting tunes from 'Hold Your Colour' (including the already established live favourite, breakbeat ska knees up 'Fasten Your Seatbelts') and heaps from their new album 'In Silico', they even chucked in a version of their by now surely world famous mix of Prodigy's 'Voodoo People'. You can sense this will be the one that wins over the festival audiences this set is tailor made for.
With hints of Rage Against The Machine, The Prodigy and, obviously, the piercing, rupturing frequencies of drum and bass, perhaps the most amazing thing is the lack of programmed beats, with everything drums-wise being played live. That kind of move usually kills a live d&b act dead but this onslaught of Metallica-style double kick rolls and spot on backbeats was so comprehensively impressive it had just the opposite effect. With their new single 'Propane Nightmares' in the student radio play charts' top five (and rising), and the live firepower to reinforce it all summer, this looks like being Pendulum's year.
Propane Nightmares video
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