Band Research: Pendulum

Pendulum are made up of Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, Perry Gwynedd, Paul Harding, Kodish and Verse. Pendulum are a drum and bass band who formed in 2002, since then they have released three albums. The first, 'Hold Your Colour', the second, 'In Silico' and the third, 'Live At Brixton Academy'

- 'Hold Your Colour' was Pendulum's debut album released during 2005, it sold 250,000 copies.

This album cover looks very mystical and mysterious. The use of green highlights the involvement of nature in the picture, it looks like roots and greenery are growing over someone's face. This gives the album cover a mysterious look. Making it eye catching and interesting. The colours used are very bold and iconic, especially the hint of purple, it doesn't tie in with any other colour in the cover.

The cover in general is very different and post-modern to anything that has has been released in the past, and its this that makes the cover work so successfully.

- This album cover is very different to the first, it has no relation apart form the name of the band.After this album was released all merchandise and anything by Pendulum had this logo printed on it. It soon became their house style, with their website, CD's and merchandise all contained the new logo.

http://www.pendulum.com/htm

Pendulum's web site runs along the theme as the album, its industrial looking and it has the same colour scheme. The crowd scene as the backdrop ties in and emphasizes their new album, 'LIVE At Brixton Academy', it emphasizes the 'live' factor, and how they are always doing shows, both DJ sets and performances.
Just like their 'Live At Brixton Academy' album the web site has the same diesgn, black, white and red. This makes the Pendulum logo stand out and remind us of their new album.

Pendulum are a band who focus their main goal on touring. Over recent years they have played in Australia, America, Brazil, Mexico and england. They have also done many festivals, including; Download (main stage), Reading and Leads Festival, T In The Park, Radio 1's Big Weekend, Isle Of White Festival, Oxygen and Glastonbury where they played the main stage. As well as performing live shows, Pendulum also do Dj and sets, this is when the band doesn't actually perform, their songs are played by a member of the band or a DJ.