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Hamish Brown
As the Chemicals prepare to open 'Don't Think' on more than 500 screens worldwide, we sat down with Ed Simons, one-half of the British electronic duo, to talk about what it was like watching himself perform from the crowd. Simons also shared his thoughts on America's current obsession with dance music, a phenomenon that comes some 20 years after he and his lifelong friend and partner Tom Rowlands started DJing.
How did the concept for the film arise?
Adam and Tom have always wanted to film the show, just as a record for ourselves, and the show we've been doing, we're really proud of. It felt like a pinnacle, so it came down to me saying, "Yeah, OK. We'll do it," because I really don't like the cameras. I feel like it gets in the way for for the audience who've actually paid money to see the show. I always thought that there's no way to really capture what it is to feel the real pulse of the music and the strength of the bass and the vividness of the colors and the visuals, and the whole atmosphere in the air -- that kind of intangible thing. But Adam has somehow managed to capture what it's like to be in the audience, and to be distracted sometimes, sometimes be into whats happening.
