Pendulum Debut New Music During Secret Set at Reading Festival 2022 - EDM.com

Pendulum are gaining some momentum once more.

The revered digital music group carried out a shock set at Reading Festival 2022 and dropped a fiery, unreleased remix of Enter Shikari’s “Sorry You’re Not a Winner.”

Pendulum teased the key set previous to leaping on the fest’s BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage. The ensuing efficiency marked the enduring group’s first U.Okay. present as a full band since 2018. They opened with “Driver, which was their first new song in over a decade after it dropped in 2020.

“We are Pendulum,” shouted the band’s Gareth McGrillen. “Surprise motherfuckers. Let’s blow this fucking roof off.”

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The remix happened when McGrillen and Rob Swire received in contact with Enter Shikari, the famed British rock band. They have been fascinated by remixing “Sorry You’re Not a Winner.” Rou Reynolds, the band’s lead singer, approved and was excited to begin working with Pendulum on the track.

“Gareth [McGrillen] and Rob [Swire] simply received in contact and mainly stated they’re fascinated by doing a remix of ‘Sorry You’re Not a Winner,’ and I used to be like, ‘Okay sick!’ Reynolds advised NME. “They sent it over, and there’s a lot of different demo changes in that track so I was like ‘this is so interesting, what are they going to do with it?’ And it’s so good. It’s killer.”

But the remix hasn’t been simple for Reynolds’ vocals. The tune was written in 2003 and launched in 2007. Reynolds says he was youthful then, so a number of the vox are a bit tough for him to sing now.

“Because sub-bass works better at certain frequencies they’ve had to raise the key of [the] track,” Reynolds added. “And you know, this track came out in 2007, I wrote it in 2003, so I could perhaps reach those high notes a little better, and they’ve raised it another tone, tone and a half, so it’s up there. So I’m hoping I have some vocal chords left after our own set to destroy with Pendulum.”