The Chemical Brothers

"Electronic Battle Weapon 7" was being released as a one-sided promo-only 12", containing "Acid Children". Costello released another album in July of that year: "The Delivery Man", a rock album recorded in Oxford, Miss. In September 2004 The Chemical Brothers released the seventh Electronic Battle Weapon. It was released on CD in October by Deutsche Grammophon. It was during these sets that they played new material, including "Acid Children", which proved to be one of the most popular new tracks. A range of musical moods and styles are used to represent the different elements of the cast - satyrical pomp for the courtiers, jazz for the faeries, and for Bottom a deliberately intrusive "brass band" motif. In Summer 2004 they returned to the festival circuit, including appearances at the Glastonbury Festival, Tokyo, Scotland and Ireland. Whilst composing it, Costello deliberately avoided listening to the previous interpretations by Mendelssohn and Britten in order to ensure his own originality.

After being released on rare white label vinyl, it was subsequently given a commercial release in March on CD (on her next single "Red Blooded Woman") and on exclusive 12" vinyl picture disc (containg two other Kylie remixes). The work, a ballet after Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream, was commissioned by Italian dance troupe Aterballeto, and received critical acclaim. In late 2003 and 2004 The Chemical Brothers continued to work in the studio, on new material and a remix of "Slow" by Kylie Minogue. In July 2004 Costello's first full-scale orchestral work, Il Sogno, was performed in New York. "Get Yourself High", which featured Canadian rapper k-os on vocals, was released as a single in November 2003. In 2004, the song "Scarlet Tide" (co-written by Costello and T-Bone Burnett and used in the film Cold Mountain) was nominated for an Academy Award. Singles 93-03 was also released on DVD, whose extra features included selected live performances and interviews with Rowlands, Simons and many of their collaborators from throughout the period. In December, Costello and Krall married at the London estate of Elton John.

A second new track, in addition to "The Golden Path", was included on the album, called "Get Yourself High". September saw the release of North, an album of piano-based ballads. This was released in September 2003, at the same time as a "best of" album, entitled Singles 93-03, marking ten years of The Chemical Brothers' releases. Singles 93-03 included most, but not all, of their singles. In May, his engagement to Canadian jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall was announced. Late 2002 and early 2003 saw Rowlands and Simons back in the studio, working on new material, including "The Golden Path", a collaboration with Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of The Flaming Lips. In March 2003, Elvis Costello & The Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Both contained remixes, live versions and b-sides. In 2002 he released a new album, When I Was Cruel, and toured with a new band, the Imposters (the Attractions with a different bass player, Davey Farragher, formerly of Cracker).

During the Summer of 2002, they travelled the festival circuit, to promote the album. Later in 2002, they released two EPs, one specifically aimed at Japan and the other the US (entitled "American EP"). He produced and appeared on an album of songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter, For The Stars. In April the title track from the album was released as a single, with remixes by Fatboy Slim, as part of a double-A sided release, with "The Test". In 2001, Costello began teaching music at UCLA and wrote the music for a new ballet. The album, "Come With Us" was less well received than their previous albums, but nonetheless went straight in at #1 in the UK album charts in the first week of its release, selling 100,000 copies. For the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Costello was invited to the program, where he re-enacted his abrupt song-switch: This time, however, he interrupted the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage", and they acted as his backing group for "Radio, Radio". It featured the view from a train window at the passing scenery, with everything outside the train moving to the time of the music and sounds in the track. "Star Guitar" was also released as a DVD single, the pair's first time. That collaboration led the pair to write and record an album together, Painted From Memory, released in 1998 under his new contract with Mercury Records.

The album was released in January 2002, preceded by a single, "Star Guitar", a melodic, Balearic number, with a promotional video by Michel Gondry. He collaborated with Burt Bacharach in 1996 on a song called "God Give Me Strength" for the movie Grace of My Heart. It featured collaborations with Richard Ashcroft ("The Test"), formerly of The Verve, and long time collaborator Beth Orton ("The State We're In"). This was the final album of his Warner Bros. contract. The Chemical Brothers finished work on another album, Come With Us, in October 2001 . An album of cover songs recorded 5 years previously was released in 1995, Kojak Variety, followed in 1996 by an album of songs he had originally written for other artists, All This Useless Beauty. Rowlands and Simons also remixed a track from Fatboy Slim's "Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars", entitled "Song For Shelter.". Costello would return to rock and roll the following year with a project that reunited him with The Attractions, Brutal Youth.

It was given a full commercial single release in September, reaching #8 in the UK singles chart, even though no promotional video was made for the track. In 1993, Costello tested the waters of classical music with a critically acclaimed collaboration with the Brodsky Quartet on The Juliet Letters. It also became one of the "anthems" in Ibiza as the summer progressed. In 1991 Costello released the aforementioned Mighty Like A Rose, during which time he infamously grew a long beard. It received much airplay on dance music radio shows in the UK, and became more and more popular in clubs over the course of the summer. In 1989, he appeared on the HBO special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night that featured his long-time idol, Roy Orbison and was invited back to Saturday Night Live for the first time since 1977. As has become customary for their releases and experiments, "It Began In Afrika" was first pressed as a promo, as part of the "Electronic Battle Weapon" series. They wrote a number of songs together including Costello's "Veronica" and "Pads, Paws and Claws" from Spike (1989), "So Like Candy" and "Playboy to a Man" from Mighty Like A Rose (1991) and McCartney's "My Brave Face", "Don't Be Careless Love", "That Day Is Done" and "You Want Her Too" from Flowers in the Dirt, and "The Lovers That Never Were" and "Mistress and Maid" from Off The Ground.

The track would made its live debut in California in April 2001, at the Coachella Festival, to much acclaim. Another new track also got its public debut at Coachella, "Galaxy Bounce". In 1987, Costello, with a new contract with Warner Bros., began a long running songwriting collaboration with Paul McCartney. The first track which fans got a taste of was "It Began In Afrika", as previously played in their DJ set in New York. It also marked the return of producer Nick Lowe, who had produced Costello's first five albums. Early in the year, they began working on a fourth album, provisionally titled "Chemical Four". Later that year, he returned to the studio with the Attractions and recorded Blood and Chocolate, heralded for a post-punk fervor not heard since 1978's This Year's Model. In 2001, they were quite active with releases and live performances. Around this time he legally changed his name back to Declan McManus, adding Aloysius as an extra middle name.

In December 2000, The Chemical Brothers aired one of their new tracks, "It Began in Afrika" at their New York DJ gigs, supporting U2. However, even though this is generally regarded as one his worst records, some songs such as "The Comedians" (which was quoted in Alan Moore's seminal comic series Watchmen) are very highly regarded. Shortly after Creamfields, Tom and Ed played the main stage at the Glastonbury festival. With a number of poor songs, and with even the better ones damaged by muddy production, the record was slated on release, an opinion which even many of Costello's most ardent fans still share. Highlights of their live set included "Out Of Control" and "Hey Boy, Hey Girl". Costello would later say of this record that they had "got it as wrong as you can in terms of the execution". In August 2000 they played to a large crowd at the main stage at Creamfields festival, Ireland. Tensions within the band were beginning to tell, and with Costello starting to feel burnt out he announced his retirement and the disbandment of the group shortly before they were to record Goodbye Cruel World (1984).

A CD copy of Surrender was placed in the third Blue Peter time capsule, buried in January 2000. Punch the Clock also generated an international hit in the single "Everyday I Write the Book," aided by a prophetic music video featuring lookalikes of the Prince and Princess of Wales undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The final single from Surrender, in February 2000, was the five track "Music: Response" EP, containing the title track and two remixes, plus a new track, "Freak of the Week", and a track called "Enjoyed", which was essentially a remix of "Out Of Control" by the Brothers themselves. (The electorate were seemingly not swayed.). The release also contained the much anticipated Sasha remix. Equally political was "Pills And Soap" -- a UK hit for Costello himself under the pseudonym of "The Imposter" -- an attack on the changes in British society brought on by Thatcherism, released to coincide with the run-up to the 1983 UK general election. In November, "Out Of Control", featuring Sumner and Gillespie on vocals, was released as single. (An affecting, emotive cover version of the song was a minor UK hit for former Soft Machine drummer and political activist, Robert Wyatt).

Later that he summer, The Brothers headlined the Glastonbury dance tent on the Friday night, followed by a UK tour which ended in December and included Homelands Scotland on September 4. Clive Langer, who co-produced with Alan Winstanley, provided Costello with a melody which eventually became "Shipbuilding", an oblique and articulate look at the political contradictions of the Falklands War, with the military build-up providing jobs for the struggling shipyards of Britain; the song featured a striking solo by Chet Baker. The Michel Gondry-directed music video for "Let Forever Be", which utilized groundbreaking video and film effects in its depiction of a young woman's nightmares, also received a lot of attention. 1983 saw another sidetrack with the Pop-Soul of Punch the Clock, featuring female backing vocals courtesy of Afrodiziak and a four piece brass section, The TKO Horns, alongside The Attractions. It reached Number 1 in the UK album charts, and was widely praised in the print media. Featuring a superior set of songs - both musically and lyrically - it remains one of his most critically acclaimed records but again failed to produce any hit singles. On one of the album's stand out tracks, "Out Of Control", Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and New Order's Bernard Sumner provided vocals. Imperial Bedroom (1982) marked a much darker, almost baroque sound for Costello, due in large part to the production of Geoff Emerick, famed for engineering several Beatles records.

As "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" had suggested, the album was more house-orientated than the previous two. (Jazz Trumpeter Chet Baker would later perform and record a beautifully morose version of this song.). It featured vocals from Noel Gallagher, Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue and Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. Almost Blue did spawn a surprise UK hit single in a version of George Jones' "Good Year For The Roses." Although the album was entitled Almost Blue it didn't include the song by that name, which would appear on 1982's Imperial Bedroom release. The third album Surrender was released in June 1999. Receiving mixed reviews, some of which accused Costello of growing soft, the record was released with a sticker bearing the message:. The track was also one of their more commercially accessible tracks and went to number 3 in the UK charts. Following the commercial disappointment of Trust, Costello took a break from songwriting and the band decamped to Nashville to record Almost Blue, an album of country music ballads written by the likes of Merle Haggard ("Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and Gram Parsons ("How Much I Lied").

In interviews at the time, Rowlands and Simons indicated that the track was inspired by nights out at Sheffield club "Gatecrasher". Despite its eclecticism ("Different Finger" had a distinct country feel) and pop hooks, Trust was not a major success and the first album since his debut to generate no hit singles. This was more house influenced than hip-hop. 1981's Trust had a more pop sound, but the overall result was clearly affected by the growing tensions within the band, particularly between Bruce and Pete Thomas. Also that month, they released their first new original material in two years, a track called "Hey Boy, Hey Girl". Lyrically, the songs are full of Costello's signature wordplay, to the point that he later felt he'd become something of a self-parody and toned it down on later releases. In May 1999 The Chemical Brothers played three UK dates in Manchester, Sheffield and Brighton, their first since December 1997. The brevity of the songs (20 tracks in about 45 minutes) suited the band's new style (the Thomas' typically melodic rhythm section and Nieve's reasonable impersonation of Booker T) as well as the frantic and stressful conditions under which it was written and recorded, crammed between live dates and fuelled by excessive drinking.

It contains some of their own tracks and remixes, as well as songs from artists who have influenced their sound, such as Renegade Soundwave, Meat Beat Manifesto and Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales. It would be the first, and - along with King Of America - possibly most successful, of Costello's many experiments with genres beyond those with which he is normally associated (the single, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" was an old Sam and Dave song, though Costello increased the tempo considerably). In September 1998 the Chemical Brothers release their second mix album Brother's Gonna Work It Out. Possibly as another statement of his oft-stated debt to black music, Costello and the Attractions' next album, Get Happy!! was an inventive pastiche of new wave pop and soul music. Another remix completed by the Brothers was "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp", from Mercury Rev. This was another extension in the association between the two bands, since Mercury Rev's Jonathon Donahue contributed to "The Private Psychedelic Reel" on Dig Your Own Hole. A contrite Costello apologised at a press conference, claiming that he had been drunk, and had said it only to annoy Bramlett (at which he was successful, since Bramlett punched him in the face). Each came in at over seven-and-a-half minutes. His success in the US was severely dented, however when Costello called Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger" during an argument with Bonnie Bramlett in an Ohio bar (the comment being particularly odd, since Elvis worked extensively in Britain's "Rock Against Racism" campaign both before and after).

Both a vocal remix and an instrumental remix were included in the single release. Costello also found time in 1979 to produce the debut album for ska band The Specials. In 1998, they concentrated more on DJing, although some remixes did see the light of day, including "I Think Im In Love" from Spiritualized. Both the album and the single "Oliver's Army", with a piano hook self-admittedly borrowed from Abba's "Dancing Queen", went to No.2 in the UK. Also in December, following four sold-out US shows, The Chemical Brothers toured the UK, finishing with a sold-out gig at London's Brixton Academy. Inspired by the constant touring, the band were in fine form and Elvis had further honed his lyrical wit, tackling subjects both personal and political. The b-side consisted of a live version of "Setting Sun", recorded at the Lowlands Festival, Netherlands on August 24, 1997. 1979 would see the peak of Costello's commercial success with the release of the album Armed Forces (originally titled "Emotional Fascism").

At the end of the year, Dig Your Own Hole's final track, the nine minute-long "The Private Psychedelic Reel" gave rise to a limited-edition mini-EP of the same name. He was banned from Saturday Night Live for nearly fifteen years, and didn't appear on any American television programs for several years. They also begin a US tour in Detroit. Costello has also stated that he thought "Less Than Zero" would not make much sense to American audiences. In November, the pair played at Dublin's Point Theatre, with support from Carl Cox. During rehearsal, he and the Attractions played "Less Than Zero" but when the live performance came, Costello played the introduction for that song, then--to the shock of the program's producers--he stopped the song, apologized to the audience, then broke into a rendition of "Radio, Radio" depite being asked not to play the song because of its anti-corporate message. In September, the next single from Dig Your Own Hole, "Elektrobank" was released. In 1977, Costello appeared on Saturday Night Live.

Metallica asked the Brothers several times to remix "Enter Sandman", but were repeatedly turned down. A tour of the US and Canada also saw the release of the much bootlegged promo-only "Live At The El Mocambo" which finally saw an official release as part of the "2 1/2 Years" boxset in 1993. They themselves also became highly sought-after for remixes for other artists. Following a whirlwind tour with other Stiff artists (captured on the Live Stiffs album, notable for Costello's recording of the Burt Bacharach standard "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself") the band recorded This Year's Model (1978), a frenetic record filled with raucous energy and Costello's barbed lyrics. Stand-out tracks include the British hit "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea" and "Lipstick Vogue", on which the rhythm section excel. In August, the Chemical Brothers achieved rapprochement with the US Dust Brothers, and asked them to remix forthcoming single "Electrobank". He released his first major hit single, the cinematic "Watching The Detectives", recorded with Nieve, plus Steve Goulding (drums) & Andrew Bodnar (bass), both members of Graham Parker & The Rumour. During the Summer of 1997, the Brothers toured extensively, particularly in the States. They also became residents at Tokyo's Liquid Rooms. The same year, Costello recruited his own band, The Attractions (Steve Nieve, born Steve Nason, piano; Bruce Thomas, bass guitar and Pete Thomas drums; the Thomases are unrelated).

Mixmag rated it 10/10 and gave it the "Album of the Month" label, calling it "mad enough to be thrilling, slick enough for not even remotely coffee tables". 14 in the UK and Top 40 in the US) with Costello appearing on the cover in his trademark glasses bearing a striking resemblance to Buddy Holly. Its release saw Costello marketed by Stiff as a new wave artist or a punk, despite the fact that the album featured the ballad "Alison" (one of his most enduring songs). The album was well received in most circles. Costello's first album, My Aim Is True (1977) was a moderate commercial success (No. It was recorded at the band's own south London studio, with the title taken from graffiti on the wall outside. His manager at Stiff, Jake Riviera suggested a name change (using Presley's first name and his mother's maiden name to form "Elvis Costello") and teamed him with a country/soft rock band named "Clover" (who would later back Huey Lewis as 'The News'). On April 7, 1997 the Chemical Brothers released their second album, Dig Your Own Hole. On the basis of a demo tape, he was signed to Stiff Records.

Sales from Exit Planet Dust were also around 150,000. McManus worked a number of dead-end jobs, during which time he continued to write songs, and began aggressively looking for a solo recording contract, which led to an incident in which he was arrested while busking outside a conference of record executives. Things were quite promising for the Brothers in the US at this time, "Setting Sun" was sitting at Number 80 in the Billboard Top 100, after selling around 80,000 copies, an excellent achievement for a European "dance" act. It was there that he formed his first band, Flip City, which had a style very much in the pub rock vein. They lasted until 1975–1976, by which time McManus was living in London with a wife and child. The NME named it Single Of The Week and said "It throbs like your head might if you had just done a length underwater in a swimming pool full of amyl." It later won a Grammy award for Best Rock Instrumental. Born into a musical family (his father, Ross McManus, sang with Joe Loss), McManus moved with his mother to Liverpool in 1971. "Block Rockin' Beats" goes straight to #1 in the UK, thanks, this time, to its Schoolly D vocal sample. His output has been wildly diverse: One critic has written that "Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image."[1] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ly09kect7q70~T1).

In March 1997, the Brothers released the second track from their forthcoming album, to give the world a further taster of what to expect. He was an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and new wave musical genres, before establishing himself as a unique and original voice in the 1980s. Virgin Records hired a musicologist to prove that they did not sample the classic 1960s psychedelic song. Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus (born August 25, 1954), better known by his stage name, Elvis Costello, is a popular British musician, singer, and songwriter of Irish descent. The three remaining Beatles' lawyers later wrote to the Chemical Brothers, mistakenly claiming that they had sampled "Tomorrow Never Knows". 2003 Academy Award nomination for best original song The Scarlet Tide in Cold Mountain. It entered the UK charts at the top, giving the duo their first ever Number One single. "Setting Sun" was backed by a longer instrumental version, and also a new track "Buzz Tracks", which was not much more than a DJ tool. 2001 Prison Song, as a public defender and a teacher.

The track was called "Setting Sun" and was finally released in October 1996. 1999 as himself in 200 Cigarettes. He worked on it overnight, and left a message with them early the next morning that he was ready to record it. 1999 as himself in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, performing with Burt Bacharach. They sent Gallagher a tape of what they had done so far. 1997 as himself in Spice World. However, the duo did later on have a track which they thought would benefit from having a vocal on it. 1987 as 'Hives the Butler' in Alex Cox film Straight to Hell, starring Joe Strummer and Courtney Love.

They didn't think much of the offer at the time, given how busy Gallagher would be with the release of Oasis' "What's The Story Morning Glory", plus the complexities of dealing with each others record companies. 1985 as inept magician 'Rosco de Ville' in Alan Bleasdale film No Surrender. Gallagher told them how much he liked Exit Planet Dust, and asked if he could sing on a future track, similar to the way Tim Burgess had worked on "Life Is Sweet". 1984 as 'Henry Scully' in UK TV series Scully. During the 1995 Glastonbury festival, Rowlands and Simons had had another conversion with Noel Gallagher. 1979 film debut as 'The Earl of Manchester' in Americathon. In August 1996, The Chemical Brothers supported Oasis at Knebworth, where 125,000 people attend each of the two shows. 2004 - A Tribute to Elvis Costello - Patrik Tanner.

"Exit Planet Dust" was listed at Number 39. 2003 - The Elvis Costello Songbook - Bonnie Brett. In February 1996, Select Magazine published a list of the 100 best albums of the 1990s thus far. 2002 - Almost You: The Songs of Elvis Costello - (various artists). The EP also contained a Dave Clarke remix of "Chemical Beats", and two other new tracks "Get Up On It Like This" and "(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up". 1998 - Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Detours & Rendezvous - (various artists). NME described the lead track as "splashing waves of synths across hard-hitting beats". 2003 - Singles, Volume 3.

It entered the UK charts at #13. 2003 - Singles, Volume 2. The four track release was limited to 20,000 copies. 2003 - Singles, Volume 1. The Chemical Brothers released their first new material in 6 months on Virgin, the "Loops Of Fury" EP. 1993 - 2½ Years. In January 1996 Exit Planet Dust went gold. 1987 - Out of Our Idiot.

Just before Christmas, 1995, they played their biggest gig to date, with The Prodigy, at the Brixton Academy. 1980 - Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers. The Chemical Brothers confessed to not being too bothered; "because he's Keith from the Prodigy, and he can do whatever the fuck he likes" Rowlands said later. 1980 - Taking Liberties. This resulted in a power cable being kicked loose, bringing the show to a temporary close. 2004 - Il Sogno. A few from the crowd subsequently joined in. 2004 - The Delivery Man.

During the encore, however, Keith Flint from The Prodigy jumped up on stage to dance, wearing a t-shirt sporting the slogan "Occupation: mad bastard". 2003 - North. At this time the Chems usually used a fusion of "Chemical Beats" and The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" as their encore. 2002 - When I Was Cruel. In November, The Chemical Brothers played the Astoria Theatre in London. 1998 - Painted from Memory, with Burt Bacharach. They then become residents at the Heavenly Social on Saturdays at Turnmills. 1996 - Costello & Nieve.

In October 1995 the duo returned to the Heavenly Sunday Social for a second and final run of DJ dates. 1996 - All This Useless Beauty. After beginning work on a remix which they viewed as having potential, the Stone Roses changed their minds and the project was cancelled. 1995 - Kojak Variety. Around this period, The Stone Roses asked the Chemical Brothers to remix "Begging You", from their "Second Coming" album. 1994 - Brutal Youth. Later, Simons put on Leftfield's "Check One", which removed Jarvis from the floor. 1993 - The Juliet Letters.

Some viewed it as a "one person dancing" night, the "one person" being Jarvis Cocker, from Pulp. 1991 - Mighty Like a Rose. He subsequently favoured obscure psychedelic material to the displeasure of the crowd. 1989 - Spike. Gallagher proceeded to kick the Chemical Brothers off the turntables and procured a friend from The Verve to continue to DJ. 1986 - Blood and Chocolate. The closest that they could come to pleasing him was the Happy Mondays' "Wrote For Luck". 1986 - King of America.

For their next single, in September 1995, they again used a guest vocalist, for the release of "Life Is Sweet", featuring their friend Tim Burgess, singer with The Charlatans. 1977 - My Aim Is True. Shortly after its release, The Chemical Brothers signed to Virgin Records, to which they took their own offshoot label, Freestyle Dust. It eventually went on to sell over a million copies worldwide. It entered the UK charts at #9 and featured guest vocalist Beth Orton on the song "Alive Alone".

In July 1995 The Chemical Brothers released their debut album Exit Planet Dust on Freestyle Dust/Junior Boy's Own. "The Chemical Brothers go for big hip-hop beats, howling sirens and persistent vocals reciting 'The Brothers gonna work it out'" -- NME. 17. "Leave Home" was released on Junior Boy's Own, as a preview of the imminent debut album and became the band's first chart hit, peaking at No.

In June 1995 they released their fourth single, the first under their new identity. They decided to then call themselves "The Chemical Brothers" after "Chemical Beats" (Ed's grandmother had suggested they call themselves "The Grit Brothers"!). Also around this time, the original Dust Brothers threatened legal action over the use of their name, and so Rowlands and Simons had to decide on a new name quickly. In March 1995 The Dust Brothers began their first international tour, which included the US - where they played with Orbital and Underworld - then a series of European festivals.

The track was called "Wonderwall". Gallagher told the duo that he had a Balearic inspired track which he had written, which he would like the Dust Brothers to remix. However, over time, Gallagher changed his mind, and in the end the Brothers did not remix it. Early in 1994 however, The Dust Brothers were approached in the club one Sunday by Noel Gallagher, from Oasis, who at the time were becoming one of the most prominent guitar bands in Britain. These two remixes received television exposure, being playlisted MTV Europe's "The Party Zone" in 1995.

The Dust Brothers were subsequently asked to remix tracks by Manic Street Preachers and The Charlatans, plus Primal Scream's "Jailbird" and The Prodigy's "Voodoo People". The likes of Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, James Dean Bradfield and Tim Burgess were regular visitors. In October 1994, The Dust Brothers became resident DJs at the small, but hugely-influential, Heavenly Sunday Social Club at the Albany pub in London's Great Portland Street. "14th Century Sky" was followed later in 1993 by the "My Mercury Mouth" EP.

Both "One Too Many Mornings" and "Chemical Beats" would later appear on their debut album. The EP also contained "One Too Many Mornings", which for the first time showed the less intense, more chilled-out side of The Dust Brothers. It contained the groundbreaking "Chemical Beats", which epitomized the duo's genre defining big beat sound, later taken up by Fatboy Slim and many more. Late in 1993, The Dust Brothers completed work on their "14th Century Sky" EP, released in January 1994.

The first was "Packet Of Peace" for Robertson's Lionrock outfit, followed by tracks for Leftfield, Republica and The Sandals. Around June 1993, the Dust Brothers did their first remixes. The duo completed university with good results, each obtaining upper-second class degrees. In May 1993, Junior Boy's Own released 'Song To The Siren'.

Weatherall also signed the band to his Junior Boy's Own label. They sent a copy to London DJ Andrew Weatherall, who made it a permanent fixture in his DJ sets. and took them to various dance record shops around London, but none would play it, saying that it was too slow (The track played at 111 BPM). In October 1992, they pressed 500 white-label copies.

"Song To The Siren" was released on their own record label, called "Diamond Records" (after Ed's nickname). Using a Hitachi hi-fi system, a computer, a sampler and a keyboard, they recorded "Song To The Siren", which sampled Meat Beat Manifesto. After a while, they began to run out of suitable instrumental hip hop tracks to use, so they started to make their own. Rowlands and Simons called themselves The Dust Brothers, after the US production duo famous for their work with the Beastie Boys.

Other DJs at Naked Under Leather were Alex Kohler and Phil South. The pair would play hip hop, techno and house. Rowlands and Simons then started to DJ at a club called "Naked Under Leather", in the back of a pub, in 1992. "One of the blokes went a bit mad, but now he's back at college, and the other one drives our van" -- Tom Rowlands on Ariel, in 1995.

Other songs, mostly released on 12" included "Mustn't Grumble" and their most well-known, "Rollercoaster". Their first single was "Sea of Beats". Ariel was formed in London by Rowlands and his friends Brendan and Matt before they all moved up to Manchester. Rowlands was also in a band, called Ariel, prior to meeting up with Simons.

the letters a and b. Linotype (http://www.linotype.com/) is holding the License for this font where it's possible to buy it. I.e. The chemical brothers original logo is only in a few details different from Sho. Hoefer died a few years ago.

The Font which was used to write the typical "The chemical brothers" logo is Sho, designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer in 1992. He also decided to go to Manchester for further study because of its music scene, and specifically the Hacienda. Rowlands left school with 9 O levels and 3 A levels. Rowlands started collecting a lot of hip hop records, by people like Eric B and Schoolly D, but was also a large fan of My Bloody Valentine.

He described the first Public Enemy album as the record which probably changed his life, and says he thought "Miuzi Weighs a Ton" was one of the most amazing records he had ever heard. Later on in his teens, Rowlands progressed to The Jesus and Mary Chain. Initially, one of his favorites was the "Oh What A Lovely War" soundtrack, then 2-Tone, and in his early teens, the synth-pop of artists as Heaven 17, Kraftwerk and Cabaret Voltaire. Later, he became interested in other music.

Rowlands became obsessed with Scotland when he was a child, and loved the bagpipes in particular. He later went to school in Reading. His father was a lighting cameraman. When Rowlands was very young, his family relocated to Henley. Rowlands was born in 1971, in Kingston-Upon-Thames.

Another student in Simon's class was Tom Rowlands. Simons studied Medieval History at theUniversity of Manchester. By the time he left school, his two main musical interests were two Manchester bands, New Order and The Smiths. Ed developed a fondness of rare groove and hip hop, having frequented a club called The Mud Club when he was 14.

Simons went to school in Allays in South London, and left with 11 O levels and 3 A-levels. Ed's two main interests when he was young were airplanes and musicals. Ed Simons was born in Herne Hill, South London, England in 1970, to a barrister mother and a father who was not around much when Ed was growing up. Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim and a few other lesser-known acts they were pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre, and are known for high-quality live sets.

Initially they called themselves "The Dust Brothers", after the noted US production duo of the same name, but their burgeoning popularity and the threat of legal action from the originals led them to change their name in 1995. The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo, comprised of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. 2005 "Believe" (yet to be released). 2005 "Galvanize" #3.

2003 "Get Yourself High" (chart ineligible EP). 2003 "The Golden Path" #17. 2002 "Come with Us/The Test" #14. 2002 "Star Guitar" #8.

2001 "It Began in Afrika" #8. 2000 "Music:Response" (chart ineligible EP). 1999 "Out of Control" #21. 1999 "Let Forever Be" #9.

1999 "Hey Boy Hey Girl" #3. 1997 "The Private Psychedelic Reel" (chart ineligible EP). 1997 "Elektrobank" #17. 1997 "Block Rockin' Beats" #1.

1996 "Setting Sun" #1. 1996 "Loops of Fury EP" #13. 1995 "Life is Sweet" #25. 1995 "Leave Home" #17.

Singles 93-03 (2003) #9 UK. Brother's Gonna Work It Out (1998) #7 UK (In The Compilations Chart). Push the Button (2005) #1 UK, #59 US. Come With Us (2002) #1 UK, #32 US.

Surrender (1999) #1 UK, #32 US. Dig Your Own Hole (1997) #1 UK, #14 US. Exit Planet Dust (1995) #9 UK.