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Push The Button Interview back in 2005:

Skrufff: How are you prioritizing these days between DJing and playing live?

Ed Chemical:

I hope that's still up to date so we could expect another 5 hours of chemically tunes! I like this attitude. Who else?

Ah - I remember reading this interview when it first came available online. It's a good interview. I think at that time, Tom and Ed were coming fresh from having looked back on their previous 10 years with a new album (Push The Button) and that's where the "5 hours of music" comes in. The interview sort of captures a moment in time, like where the Chemical Brothers were at that point in their careers with having finished Push The Button. Surely now there's over 6 hours of music! ;)

I especially like this bit that Ed said:

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   "I'd be lying to say it's water off a duck's back, that review infuriated me initially, but in another way it's quite gratifying; that we're still here and we're still annoying people," he chuckles.
   
   

   
   

   
   

Mmm. The infamous NME review of Push The Button that launched a thousand protests from sneakerbeater, pushpop, me and others who were just as irritated. And you know, we still haven't been able to drudge that review up after all this time, haha. I don't think any of us have read it, actually. We just know that whatever was written was pretty shitty. I don't know if it was pulled from the website because the journalist or NME felt bad, or if Ed's wrath had something to do with it (perhaps a tersely worded letter to the editor in cheif, who knows). But it must have gotten under his skin enough for him to have said something about it. And you know, Tom and Ed can annoy me anytime with their music. Really now, I hope they stick around annoying us with their great tunes for a long time to come. :lol: I get the feeling Tom and Ed are very comfortable with where they are now, just going by more recent articles. Perhaps the negativity coming from journalists/reviews (like the ever-elusive NME review) stung because of the negative feedback they got from Come With Us only a couple of years earlier being fresh in their minds. Anyway - There's been plenty of negative reviews of We Are The Night but it seems Tom and Ed are enjoying their success and doing what they want to do, and are pleased with how things have turned out. And in the end that's most important.

As always, one thing that hasn't changed over the years is it's always about the music. I can only see that as a good thing...

(this thread looks a little weird, by the way - I don't know what's up...)

There will always be someone who doesn't like a particular sect of music.

Living in the middle of Illinois in a town of 150K , I know some, but not many techno fans. Furthermore, while growing up in my hometown of 6000 people, I knew very few (if any) people that listened to any electronic music... and honestly, I just stumbled into by accident -- was watching MTV's AMP and caught Around the World and Block Rocking Beats -- So back to the point, living where electronic music isn't prevalent means that when I am listening to music at my desk at work, people are like "what is that crap, don't you have any country?"

I can't say that I read the NME interview, so I can't really speak to it, but to the fans... it is all about the music. and I agree with Whirly that the Chems seem very at home with the criticism and know that most peoples' views don't matter because they don't know what they are talking about.

@Whirly: well, yeah, it was 4 o' clock in the early morning and I was kinda tired when I was typing this. All I was looking for on google was some infos about Ed Chemical, whether there would be some setlists hints or the like. Founding nothing but this little text where Ed and Chemical were highlighted I took a closer look and came across this nice interview and this statement which encouraged me to hope they'll doing their thing till they "die" on stage plus 5 more albums, you know what I mean? They could annoy me with their music all life long :lol: .

@Sethful: Don't you think it's time to teach those gimps in proper electronica (maybe a workshop for disbelievers)? I think it would be helpful to warm to the theme by playing 'Where Do I Begin?' because of it's guitar line, which sounds in a broader sense country :lol:

Just a quick note about NME (No Musical Ethics). I Found a really old copy last year where they were reviewing up and coming bands. One of the bands they talked about they said the following:

'Not everyone can be the Boo Radleys'

Can you take anything this magazine says seriously after that comment. :)

Csar - :lol: no no no... it's nothing you did that makes this thread's format look weird. It's just buggy when I view it through Internet Explorer. I look at it through Mozilla and this thread looks as it should.

*shrugs*

NME - No Musical Ethics - that's funny!