Tuesday 30 June 2009

Pendulum – The Other Stage, Glastonbury 27th June 2009

Pendulum’s spectacular penultimate set on The Other Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night (June 27) completely stole the show.

The Aussie-British rockers delivered an absolutely blinding hour-long set packed full of hardcore electro rock which featured some of their new tracks.

As Pendulum took to the stage high energy MC Ben ‘The Verse’ Mount yelled out "Glastonbury... We're gonna take you to another dimension!" before they kicked off with Showdown which got the Glastonbury crowd hyped-up and dancing.

This was followed by Fasten Your Seatbelts and hits Propane Nightmares and Granite just as the sun was starting to set over Worthy Farm. The atmosphere was electric.

These guys were relentless, "Glastonbury, you are now about to witness pure, undiluted carnage," lead singer Rob Swire shouted before playing Blood Sugar.

A stunning onstage lightshow, helped add to the excitement, and whipped the crowd into frenzy, sparking off mayhem in a mosh-pit right in front of were I was.

They also performed an amazing cover of Calvin Harris' hit; I'm Not Alone, which Swire explained they worked out only a day before, especially for the festival.

The crowd was jumping; those who prefer the metal and grunge elements of Pendulum were moshing and pogo jumping, whilst those who prefer the Drum ‘n’ Bass were raving their wellies off with Glow Sticks in hand, all dancing side by side.

Pendulum were fantastic, they should have been headlining The Other Stage, their highly charged spectacular set is worthy of the headlining slot at any festival.

Set List:

Showdown
Fasten Your Seatbelts
Propane Nightmares
Blood Sugar
Mutiny
Slam
Tarantula
Different
I'm Not Alone
Granite

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