The Chemical Brothers

Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons met studying history at Manchester in the late eighties and began DJing together, releasing their first records under the name The Dust Brothers before a legal challenge forced the change. Their sound put heavy breakbeats and acid-house squelch through rock-sized volume, and it carried them from club nights to main-stage billing.

They have worked with guest vocalists throughout, among them Noel Gallagher on "Setting Sun" and Beth Orton in the mid-nineties. The live show is run as a collaboration with visual designers Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall, built around film projection, lasers and inflatable figures that move with the set.