Pendulum Straddle Chaos and Epic at Electrifying Piece Hall Show [Photos]

Australian electro-rockers Pendulum took over the glorious Georgian Cloth Hall in Halifax for a show so full of high-octane energy and dancing that The Piece Hall surely registered on the Richter scale at times.

With Swedish rockers Normandie creating a stir to warm things up, with many fans of their own in attendance, things were already getting a bit lively. They played an energetic set and connected well with the crowd, and the sound – especially Philip Strands’ vocals – got heavier as the set went on.

Halifax has always had a strong rock/metal community, that has for years been undernourished with local shows, but The Piece Hall, year on year, are ensuring that they are not ignored and are putting on some incredible shows for them to enjoy, so those fans that weren’t attending Download Festival this weekend were treated to a beast of a show – and to hear heavy music played in this setting is something that will never get old.

The beauty of Pendulum being musically diverse is that they attract such a diverse crowd, and that was a beautiful thing to see. They were one of the stars of this show, with their energy levels never dropping, dancing from beginning to end all night. Pendulum matched that energy and turned the next hour and a half into some kind of unrelenting Rockfit class, with them as the soundtrack. There will undoubtedly be a lot of aching bodies and sore heads following this.

They are masters of the build-up and epic drop that gets everybody moving in unison, and the crowd was turned into a sea of limbs and flying drinks for most of the show, especially when they dropped tracks like “Napalm” and “Propane Nightmares” early in the set. Then when they mixed in their remix of Prodigy’s “Voodoo People” the sea of bodies created an awe-inspiring sight – and adds further evidence to the argument that they should book The Prodigy here at some point – in fact this whole show could have been used as a test case to check that the foundations of the building could handle that.

With their Wargasm collab “Cannibal” and “Granite” holding the middle of the show together, they continued to ramp up the energy to the end, closing with an electric “Watercolour” before encored with the epic “Tarantula” which saw the audience reach the peak of their energetic expression.

This, at times, felt completely chaotic and looked like pure carnage, but it was one of the most exhilarating shows of the summer so far.

The Piece Hall organizer deserves a pat on the back for not playing it safe and not shying away from booking acts that are on the heavier side of the scale, because the hunger for it is strong – and it’s official… Halifax rocks!

Check out Frank Ralph Photography’s photo gallery from the show below.

Pendulum (w/ Normandie) @ The Piece Hall (Halifax, UK) on June 14th, 2025

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