Knife Party

Since the mysterious duo Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen emerged, their singular approach and ferocious productions have driven their rapid ascent through dance music’s ranks from unknown entity to dance floor conquering scene leaders, and festival headliners.

Their debut EP ‘100% No Modern Talking’ was released as a free download in December 2011, and racked up over 50,000 downloads in less than 12 hours on the first day of its release. The EP has now received over 1 million downloads worldwide and despite being available for free, broke into the iTunes Top Ten charts in both the UK, US and Australia as well as reaching No.1 in the Beatport Releases chart and has received unprecedented support from tastemakers and club DJs the world over.

Their first ever show was at BBC Radio 1's Come Together event at Space, Ibiza in August 2011, and 2 years later, the Summer of 2013 saw the act with a residency at Together at Amnesia with their amazing Haunted House show. Since 2011, they have curated their own ‘Earstorm’ stage at Australia’s Future Music Festival, completed a number of sold out headline tours of the US and Europe, playing in front of 100,000 revellers at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and headlined huge festivals the world over including EDC Las Vegas, Global Gathering, Bestival, Lollapalooza and more.

The rest of this year has seen Rob and Gareth split their time between headlining huge festivals across the globe such as Global Gathering, Electric Zoo and Tomorrowland and working in the studio to finish their eagerly awaited debut LP ‘Abandon Ship’. ‘Resistance’, the first single from the album, was released as a free download on the Knife Party website and received over 20,000 downloads in 24 hours, this will be followed by a number of track unveils throughout October before the album is released on 27th to coincide with 2 huge Halloween shows in the US.