I like drum and bass. Rather a lot in fact. I’m not too keen, however, on going to places where DJs are playing lots of it and sweaty people are prancing around. Which is why I can’t tell you about any of the people who were on before or after Pendulum, because I didn’t see them. The last few minutes of Eddy Temple Morris’s set would suggest he was keen though. And quite good at climbing.

Pendulum themselves were good. I would give them 6/10 for the new songs, 8/10 for the old songs, 8/10 for their performance (although Mr Shouty/Jumpy at the front was mildly annoying) and 10/10 for the pretty light show and lasers and cool stuff like that.

I like a drum and bass band that perform their music live, and Pendulum do that with great skill. At their worse they do have a habit of veering into Nu Metal territory, and the material from the new album was the stuff most likely to wander into that dangerous ground. However, tracks from their debut, especially Slam, Fasten Your Seatbelts and Girl In The Fire were absolutely great and sounded (and looked) spectacular.

I have fears that one day Pendulum’s rawk elements will take over the group and their days as a sort of indie D & B group will be forgotten, but right now, as a live act they’re not half bad.