Last night was the album launch of Pendulum’s debut album, “Hold Your Colour”, at Earth nightclub. It was by far the best night of my life. That is kind of disturbing in a way, considering I went by myself!! 
Within a few minutes of queing up to get in (and oh my god – the queue was about 300 metres long!!!) I noticed someone I knew was just a few people ahead of me, and a few minutes after that saw another person I knew, so that was cool. It was easy to make some friends for the night as soon as I got in as well. Massive shout outs to Tim and Bonney who I spoke to in the line up for the cloak room – two really cool people that work the desks at FreshFM. Tim recognised me from when I came in to collect a prize once, too! 
Unfortunately there was some pretty bad problems with a connector plug from one of the decks, and the sound stopped working heaps of times which really screwed up pendulum’s gig. The night opened with MPK playing awesome (mostly Adelaide) DNB, and he played for ages. Eventually he handed over to John Doe (another Adelaide DNB artist) who also played for ages, playing AWESOME stuff. Eventually at about 2:15 pendulum came on, and it was sweet as. I was forced to leave at about 3am due to massive cough of death fits, whilst pendulum’s set was still cranking. I actually reckon that MPK was better live, I think because he was playing his choice of stuff that wasn’t neccessarily all his own work.
Here is a little info about the pendulum album:
PENDULUM
‘HOLD YOUR COLOUR’
BREAKBEAT KAOS
3LP/CD
(JULY 2005)
Pendulum drop their eagerly anticipated debut album ‘Hold Your Colour’ on Breakbeat Kaos.
Featuring 13 bold and diverse tracks, the album combines the trio’s groundbreaking blend of heavy electronic funk, never-before-heard innovative sounds and ‘real’ musical elements to produce a monster of a long player, destined to break down genres and smash up charts worldwide.
After bursting onto the scene with 2003′s debut ‘Vault’ (which won “Drum’n'Bass Tune Of The Year”, Pendulum have since gone onto take the titles of “Best Breakthrough Producers”, “Best Producers”, and again “Tune Of The Year” in 2004 with the mighty ‘Another Planet’ – an anthem of such epic proportions it made No. 43 in the UK National Charts.
‘Hold Your Colour’ is set to follow suit when it drops; straight from the huge cinematic introduction, the album takes you on a action packed ride from anthems to emotional journeys and everything in between. From furious dancefloors bombs ‘Slam’, ‘Hold Your Colour’ and the massive ‘Tarantula’ featuring the vocal talents of MC Spyda and Tenor Fly, to smooth soulful rollouts ‘Plasticworld’ and ‘Streamline’. From breakbeat monsters ‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’ and ‘Out Here’, to the latin-rock electro fuelled funk of ‘Girl In The Fire’ — this long player takes listeners on a trip through genre bending territory.
The Pendulum story thus far can only be described as one of much warranted overnight success… and their debut album holds all the promise of becoming a dance classic.
“One of the most ambitious drum’n'bass albums in history… it shows how far you can take drum’n'bass and makes the sound accessible for a whole new section of music lovers. Pendulum have created the drum’n'bass equivalent of stadium rock” (Mixmag magazine).
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