Earlier this year The Chemical Brothers were asked to pick out pivotal locations in the dance duo¡¯s remarkable near 30-year career.
Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons chose the places with the most emotional resonance: the Manchester address where the pair lived together as they cut their teeth DJing under the moniker 237 Turbo Nutters; the central London pub where their rule-shattering early-1990s Heavenly Sunday Social residency became a magnet for British music¡¯s in-crowd; Glastonbury festival, where they cemented dance music¡¯s crossover status with some mind-bending, genre-defining spectaculars.
The penultimate stop down memory lane was Fuji Rock Festival. Chems historians wouldn¡¯t have been surprised: They first played in 1999, and their live concert film ¡°Don¡¯t Think¡± (2012) was recorded during their 2011 performance. Their headline set this weekend will be their sixth appearance at the festival.
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