Pendulum have carried out their hit music ‘Tarantula’ for the final time at this 12 months’s Studying & Leeds competition.
The rave-rock icons broke out the monitor at Studying seemingly for the final time in the course of the third and closing day of the competition, once they took to the principle stage this afternoon (Sunday August 25).
After opening with new monitor ‘Napalm’, which they shared earlier this week that includes Joey Valance and Brae, the band ripped by way of classics and fan favourites ‘Propane Nightmares’, ‘Come Alive’, ‘Nothing For Free’ and extra, earlier than introducing the monitor because the penultimate music of the set.
“That is the final time we’re ever going to play this music,” frontman Rob Swire informed the viewers earlier than launching into the hit. “We’ve performed it for 16 years… it’s time to place it to mattress.”
Elsewhere within the set, Swire and co. additionally shared their help for Reneé Rapp, who had her set on the principle stage reduce quick as a result of a technical challenge, earlier than ending with a efficiency of their 2010 hit ‘Watercolour’.
The efficiency at this 12 months’s Studying & Leeds comes shortly after the band spoke to NME about their newest single, and revealed that they have been initially pushed by their label to make a music that centred extra on drum’n’bass.
“The label just about got here to us saying, ‘Make some extra drum’n’bass. As you recognize, I’ve bought a bizarre relationship with that! We determined to go in and make it as heavy as attainable, fairly than make one thing that will match into DnB units. We wished to make it our personal manner,” Swire mentioned.
Wanting ahead, he added: “I wish to take it a lot heavier. I do know drum ‘n’ bass is having a second once more and we preserve getting each Tom, Dick and Harry throughout our whole work workforce being like, ‘You guys should get in on this and begin making some DnB that matches in Hedex’s set’, nevertheless it’s simply the very last thing I wish to fucking do.
“I really feel most comfy once we’re in between worlds. As quickly because it goes too metallic or too DnB, then I begin to really feel bizarre about it. The center of that floor is the right zone for us. I wish to take it a lot heavier if we are able to.”
R&L 2024 kicked off on Friday (August 23) and has seen headline units so removed from Blink-182, Lana Del Rey and Fred Once more.., with Liam Gallagher set to shut the Studying primary stage tonight.
In the meantime, in Leeds, Storm Lilian introduced “excessive climate” situations to the competition website, forcing the cancellation of a number of units on the primary day of the occasion. The BBC Radio 1 and Aux levels have been deemed too unsafe for use in any respect this weekend by the competition’s well being and security workforce.
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