The Chemical Brothers

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You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone with a stronger case than The Chemical Brothers, though. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are the forward thinking and nostalgia-free duo who helped bring dance music to the Glasto masses, having performed ten times across the site since 1995. It’s little surprise, then, that they’re coming back for 2019’s festival. And they’ll be headlining The Other Stage – Glasto’s just-as-iconic second stage ­– next Saturday night (June 29) for a record-setting fifth time. “When things go right, The Other Stage can be the perfect place to play on the planet,” Tom Rowlands says.

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Tom and Ed have paid their dues. They spent the ‘90s DJing their mind-boggling music in the smaller dance areas, and in 2000, they headlined the Pyramid Stage following their gargantuan third album, ‘Surrender’, which featured ‘Hey Boy, Hey Girl’, ‘Let Forever Be’ and ‘Under The Influence’. Festival boss Michael Eavis has been known to frequent the duo’s shows every few years, according to Tom. It doesn’t get more Glastonbury than having a denim-clad farmer raving away side of stage.

The Other Stage is perfect for them, too. Their career has seen them stay true to their underground roots and bring it to the mainstream consciousness. No wonder six of their nine studio albums have landed at Number One in the UK Album Charts, the most for any dance act in Britain, ever. Their triumphant new album, ‘No Geography’, is stuffed with festival bangers and showed them to still be light-years ahead of their peers. The Ultimate Glastonbury Artist’s case to come back and smash it is stronger than ever.

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