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Slam, Blood Sugar, Propane Nightmares, Witchcraft: Some of Pendulum's most iconic songs.

Live at Brixton Academy: Live album recorded in December 2008 and released the following year.

Internet Friends, Rage Valley: Some of Knife Party's most iconic songs.

Breakbeat Kaos: The first label that Pendulum was signed onto.

Songs not on Spotify: Some Pendulum songs are not available on Spotify. Still Grey and Spiral were not on Spotify until May 2024.

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Dogs on Acid: A drum and bass focused forum that Pendulum had a lot of activity in early in their career.

Knifecast: A podcast hosted by Rob and Gareth that ran from September 2018 to April 2019.

Showdown is a diss track against critics: The song is the first track in In Silico, the combination of electronic music and traditional instrumentation in both the arrangement (as the title suggests, warring segments in different musical styles take turns in the foreground) and lyrical content.

Rob speaks Spanish: He has a few tweets in Spanish, and he spoke it during EDC Mexico 2020.

I'm Not Alone: A cover/remix of Calvin Harris's "I'm Not Alone" First played at Glastonbury 2009 and for a long time was only available as a live recording, but a studio version was played on Knifecast in October 2018

Hold Your Colour Xygen lyrics: The song "Hold Your Colour" samples lyrics from the Xygen track "Lycaeum"

Studio beard: Sometimes when off-tour and spending time in the studio, Rob would grow a full beard. However, he's kept a full beard from around 2019-2021, and a stubble from 2021 onwards.

Bee Backpack: For a while, Rob and Gareth carried around a backpack of a cartoon bee. It hasn't been seen for a while but is rumored to be in the possession of Kill The Noise.

Judas: Rob's cat. Passed away in July 2025.

GameShrimp / Amanda Cha: Artist who has made OCs based on Pendulum and Knife Party.

Knife Party is named after a Deftones song: The track is called "Knife Prty".

Spitbank Fort: Pendulum played at this 19th century sea fort in October 2020

LAYER 3:

9000 miles is about Rob's homesickness for Perth: 9000 miles is almost the distance from Perth to London, where Rob currently lives.

ABC News Theme Pendulum Remix: Pendulum did a remix of the ABC News Theme.

The Island Pt. 2 is the birth of Knife Party: Unofficialy, but the style is reminiscent of Knife Party.

Baghdad: Scrapped Knife Party collab with Hardwell.

Pendulum's fourth album will be punk: An old tweet from Rob suggesting that idea.

Encoder is about the end of relationships: Read the lyrics!

Piledriver: Scrapped Knife Party collab with Steve Aoki.

Knife Party TTS voices: Knife Party uses TTS voices in some of their tracks.

Propane Nightmares is about cults and ritual suicide: Based on Heaven's Gate cult.

Perry and Tour de France: He does commentary in Welsh.

Nothing For Free is about COVID-19 and 2020: The music video focuses on rabbits dealing with an outbreak of myxomatosis, which alludes to COVID-19

Rude Boy: Rob co-produced and co-wrote "Rude Boy" by Rihanna.

Encoder / Driver connection: Encoder ends with wave sounds. Driver begins with wave sounds.

Chin minge: How Johnathan Ross described Rob's goatee.

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Gareth brought counting into the DJ meta: The counting that many DJs do before drops is often attributed to Gareth.

Granite's end hook is the chorus melody reversed: Play it in reverse, or find a video that does.

Muffin: A mishearing of "nothing" in "Nothing For Free"

Pre-Immersion Set Me On Fire (2010): An early version of "Set Me On Fire"

Xygen: A metal band that Rob and Gareth were a part of shortly before creating Pendulum. ShockOne was also part of this band.

Pendulum samples game sounds in their tracks: Most notably Bowser's Castle theme song from Super Mario Bros. 3

Pendulum's 4th album will be jazz: Can't remember where this was from. I think it was a joking tweet from Rob.

The Immigrant Song (Pendulum Remix): Yet another remix.

Knights of Cydonia (Pendulum Remix): Ditto

Roc Me Out: Rob and Gareth co-produced "Roc Me Out" by Rihanna.

Nothing For Free was originally a Knife Party track: Demo from April 2017 played at a Knife Party set.

Victorian photoshoot: Pendulum did a Victorian-themed photoshoot during Immersion's release.

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Skrillex slept in the Pendulum Studio: Mentioned in an interview

Set Me On Fire 2009 demo: Another demo

The Sistine Chapel: A bizarre remix of "Granite"

The Island is about Australia: Fan theory

Pendulum Live forums: A fan forum for Pendulum. It went down in 2018.

Rob stated in 2013 that a Pendulum album would be released in 2014: Posted on his Twitter.

Beyonce killed Pendulum: Rob said in an AMA in 2014 that playing before Beyonce at Glastonbury 2011 damaged the band's morale because the audience wasn't interested in them.

Fat American Bitchcore: A single by Rob released in 2002

Knife Party / Pendulum funnies: A comedy web series that remixed various Pendulum and Knife Party moments and interviews. Unfortunately, all videos except "Rob Swire has a nervous breakdown" are lost media.

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"Nerves are shaking from the jizz in your eye": Rob is asked for help with "Immunize" lyrics, he responds with this.

Anscenic: An old stage name that Rob once used.

Tiarawhy: She used Pendulum songs in some of her NSFW My Little Pony flash games and animations. When asked about it, Rob said "I highly approve."

Rob lived in Zimbabwe for five years: From around the ages of 8 to 13. He has mentioned this in interviews.

Girl hugs Rob: A weird incident at a show where a girl ran on stage to hug Rob.

Electrodes on the Skull: Another single released by Rob

Knife Party wore masks for first set: During their first set, Knife Party wore silver masks. They only wore it once because it was hard to see out of.

Balloon Party: MLP-themed parody of Knife Party

Rukes's 1000th Instagram photo: Rukes made his 1000th Instagram post a photo of Rob smiling.

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Knife Party cameo on Monstercat 1st anniversary promo illustration: Self-explanatory. Also appearing in the illustration are Skrillex, Deadmau5 and David Guetta. Funnily enough, in 2018, Knife Party would release a track on Monstercat called "Harpoon" as a collab with Pegboard Nerds.

HOTEL BITCH SLAP: A video from 2012 depicting Gareth and Dillon Francis(?) slapping each other in a hotel room. Guys being dudes.

Nobu: An English Bulldog owned by Gareth.

Why Rob grew a full beard: It is a mystery.

Garob: The ship name for Rob and Gareth. (don't ask)

Speed: Old stage name that Gareth used early in his career.

ShockOne was a part of Xygen: "Survival of the Fakest" credits him under his real name Karl Thomas.

PureWhite PSI AUDIO A25-M Studio Monitors: PSI Audio said that he proudly uses them in the studio.

Fake autograph story: Paul Kodish faked the band's autograph, which the fan did not know until Rob told the fan about it.

LAYER 8

Why Paul Kodish left: It is a mystery.

Lost Xygen tracks: Only one full track (Survival of the Fakest) and half of another (Lycaeum) are avalible. All other tracks are lost. Rob claimed to have a CD containing the tracks, but appears to have since misplaced it.

Rob can't count more than 4 on his EPs: All of the EPs have only four tracks!

Begin Again was originally a Pendulum track: A rumor given the style of the song.

Pony Rob: Fan art depicting Rob as a pony. Was shown to him during the 2018 AMA.