What kind of tunes are you looking to make, what sort of sound? I’ve got a couple of remixes I’m putting together, it’s been a really interesting time to make music and I’m just trying to write what I feel like and not be influenced by anything or anyone, that’s really hard. I’ve also got a compilation I’m putting together on the label and that’s taking way more time than anything I ever expected.

I’ve been working on a lot of solo stuff. What have you got coming up with the new label – The Hornet’s Nest? You’ve been busy in a personal capacity recently, away from Pendulum. The English fans just got what we were about from day one. I think it’s been very important for us to be here from day one and we knew we had to leave Australia to progress to where we wanted to be – it made most sense to be where D&B came from. What role do you think the UK community and D&B scene has had in Pendulum’s career then? I was back in London walking around Soho just now, visiting some of my favourite spots, it felt like home – it’s weird because I wasn’t born here, but it feels like this is where we belong. I still do now, even though I live in Perth again. Even though we’re proud to be Australian, we left that behind and we felt more at home here. Every year we would go back to Australia for one week if we were lucky and some years not at all. The UK must feel like a home away from your Aussie home these days after all the years you’ve spent here? Sometimes you second guess yourself, but we did 11,000 at Ally Pally last time, so this is progress. The O2 is pushing 15,000, that’s a big room and I was terrified when I heard we were going there, because I’ve watched Prince and Metallica there, massive bands like that.

Numbers have been ridiculous, the shows have been great, we’ve debuted a new song on this tour too, playing it live for the first time before anyone had even heard it in a club – which is a new one for us.Īs we’re speaking the guys are playing in Birmingham tonight and tomorrow is the O2 in London and I’ve just had a sneak peak at the numbers – bigger than anything we’ve ever done. We’re speaking as the band are on the UK arena tour, how has it been going? There is more going on behind the scenes for the Aussie DJ and producer though, who also has solo music on the horizon and a new label project called The Hornet’s Nest Records – with a 60-tune compilation about to come out soon.ĭavid Harrison caught up with Paul during the recent arena tour to hear more about the busy developments for him personally and for Pendulum… They released a new EP at the back end of 2023 and the live band are fresh off the back of a hugely successful UK arena tour. He’s played an important role in the D&B scene for the past 20 years and Pendulum have very much come back with a bang in recent years.

Paul “El Hornet” Harding is a founding member of Pendulum and has been the man behind the decks since their inception.

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