Pendulum launch new website with Coldplay cover offer
Story by Jack Foley
PENDULUM will mark the launch of their new official website by making their Live Lounge session recording of Coldplay’s Violet Hill available as a download single exclusively from the new site.
The band’s take on the Coldplay hit has received an incredible reaction since its broadcast on Radio 1’s Live Lounge last week.
Radio 1 received so many requests for repeat plays that they opted to add the track to their A-list, while it has already been viewed over 30,000 times on YouTube, driven in part by glowing reports across various influential music blogs.
In addition to offering the track as a download, Pendulum’s new website will act as central a hub for all the band’s activity online, feeding in blogs, pictures and videos from Pendulum on MySpace, FlickR and YouTube.
The site will also be launching a members area, The Other Side, which allows registered fans to build their own profiles and upload their own Pendulum content.
It also includes exclusive official Pendulum multimedia content including downloads, competitions, pictures and videos.
The success of the Violet Hill cover version marks another pivotal moment in what is proving to be an outstanding year for the band.
Their second album In Silico debuted at No.2 in the album charts with over 150,000 sales to date and Pendulum have proved to be a defining highlight of summer festivals including One Big Weekend, Download and Linkin Park and Jay-Z’s Projekt Revolution.
Their growing ability to effortlessly cross genres has also recently been rewarded with a Kerrang! award nomination for Best Single for the track Propane Nightmares.
Pendulum’s summer festival performances conclude in August with dates at Reading, Leeds and Creamfields. They will then return in November and December to play their biggest UK tour to date that includes two nights at London’s Brixton Academy. Find out more